A lovely rest day exploring a grand city centre. Predates lots of old British Cities which we think are old. Feels very accessible, friendly, with a buzz and also a bit of a [welcome?] edge – first time for a while there’s graffiti in places and a few homeless/beggars. More people smoking. So not tourist sanitised.
There are enough icecream, pizzas, other food, to feed the masses with the e-numbers they crave. I enjoyed.
The main church has a tower which has to be climbed. It dates back to 14C so has no lift. It is apparently the most Easterly Western style church of its type in Europe. I wonder, before Google – how did they know this – did someone visit every place to check? Gorgeous tiled roofs.
Kosice is apparently the first European city to have a coat of arms. There is no advice if it was designed by a committee or just a local dictator/chief priest. I’m sure the general rabble at the time were delighted with this, as they looked up from building the church tower. Or down.
I looked up famous people from Kosice. A few, most of which I don’t know including influencers (which is only a few syllables away from influenza). Martina Hingis is one of them.
The star attraction for all ages is the water fountain. The water moves in time to the music playing. Mesmerising.
Tomorrow into Hungary via the steelworks. Proper tourists.
Travelling reflections 