The First World War was a travesty, around 40 million civilian and military casualties.
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Dr Jan Telensky is a man who likes to talk – and his track record shows that he talks sense.
A consultancy with a big heart ended up in a David and Goliath battle with major UK firms at an energy efficiency event – and walked away with two major accolades.
There is an organisation in Central Europe the consumerwatchfoundation.com is supporting as part of our campaigning remit – Digital Angels. This how it describes itself – ‘deflecting pain is a prime function of Digital Angels’. What Digital Angels does is recycle unwanted company computers and passes them on to good […]
I grew up in a small town on the north east of Slovakia called Poprad. I believe I was one of the lucky ones to be born there (writes Alena Dulakova) To be able to breath fresh air and see a beautiful mountain silhouette every day is something that, at […]
It was the best of both worlds as a team of soccer hopefuls from Manchester United’s Academy got together with Slovak ice hockey heroes for an exclusive photo-shoot. The UK teenagers were at AquaCity-Poprad – a spa hotel voted the world’s ‘greenest’ over a number of years – for training […]
There was an air of sadness as Manchester United Under 16s arrived in Slovakia for training at AquaCity-Poprad. It had just been announced that Eric Harrison who was the team’s legendary youth coach, had died aged 81. A statement issued by United this morning (Thursday) read: “We are extremely saddened […]
Modest central Europen who loves Britain so much he rebuilds it in the mountains If we could dial ‘P’ for past what stories would be revealed about this old telephone box… It stood for decades in rainy Mayfair, just yards from the famous Playboy club and arrangements for many a […]
In so many ways this traditional red pillar box is a grand old survivor. Certainly it has survived more than 70 years to become the only working English mail repository in the Little Big Country, Slovakia. And it has also survived at least one World War and an horrific bombing by […]
And there’s one more thing to make you feel at home in Poprad… a good old fashioned duck pond. Well, it’s a bit more than that really, a small lake just behind the ‘clone’ of Chelsea football club opposite AquaCity, has just been drained and relined so that locals can […]