I really tried to wake up in time, I did, but, as I couldn't even manage to keep both of my eyes open at the same time, I was grateful when I the option to go to Banska came up instead.
It was raining when we left Martin, but as we crossed the mountains and came down to the valley where Banska lays, weather cleared and we finally had a glimpse of blue sky.
Our first stop was a pan-cakery for a quick breakfast. I quite liked the taste of chicken and mushrooms in a pancake, even though I initially was quite sceptical.
After that, the next stop was the shopping centre Europe, which is absolutely heaven when living in Martin with its scarce range of shops. However, you must not forget that i went there with 2 boys, my boyfriend and Andy; and since democracy has a tendency to influence decisions, our main target ended up being eating at KFC :P ( which btw. tastes quite nice when u only get to eat it 2 or 3 times every year, so i didn't really disagree, I just like to nag :P )
The city of Banska has many sights, such as Churches, museums and even bits of the old castle, but we chose to spend the rest of our stay at a really charming cafe called "Labyrinth".
It had a really nice view over the town square, and as the curious being we were, we soon found out that the clock tower, which is some 500 years old and at the top of the square, actually was a leaning tower, being 40 cm of the perpendicular at the top. Also, we found out that the plague column in the middle of the square had to be taken down during a visit from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 because it, as it was a religious symbols, was considered to be embarrassing as a background when he was to hold his speech.
Oh how i love the combination of cafe, WiFi, net books, google and Wikipedia, oh, and of course good coffee and cakes !
This little cafe was not only located quite centrally, but had the most welcoming waiter I've met in a long time.
It took him just about 2 seconds to pick up on that we weren't Slovak, and then offered several languages we could communicate with. He even had time for a little chat while he was taking our orders, and after they were delivered from time to time came by our table to check if we were all good! I love good service. As I am the literal cookie monster, I of course had to have cake with my coffee:
I'm sure the yellow makes it quite cancerous, and the heart wasn't made of gold, but sugar, but all in all, even the cake was good at this place :)
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