This post contains very special photos during my celebrations of New Year´s Eve of 2022. I have spent this moments at music club called Humno Tatry.

HUMNO Tatry will help you with the organization of a company event or a private celebration so that you can have fun without worries.

HUMNO Restaurant & Music Pub offers great entertainment with a view of Lomnický štít right below the cable car station in Tatranská Lomnica. The premises are suitable for company parties and team building events associated with entertainment, music and dancing. In cooperation with a production agency, they can fulfill even the most demanding requirements and wishes for you.

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Location: Humno Tatry, Tatranska Lomnica, High Tatras, Mountains

Time: December 31st, 2022, Silvester

This post contains very special moments during my holiday in high tatras.

Hrebienok is a tourist center located above Starý Smokovec at the foot of Slavkovský štít at an altitude of 1,285 m above sea level. m.
The emergence of Hrebienok as a tourist center is related to the development of tourism in the High Tatras in the second half of the 19th century. Starý Smokovec, which was granted the status of a spa town at that time, attracted tourists who fell in love with this place.

The beginnings of construction on Hrebienok are linked to the construction of the Bilík cottage, which stood on its northeastern slope. In 1894, a road with a hard surface was built next to the hiking trail. The cable car from Starý Smokovec built in 1908 prompted the construction of the Hrebienok Hotel in 1928.

The construction of training meadows and slopes near the hotel began in 1930. In 1956, a 750 m long ski lift was built on the slalom meadow to the Slavkovská lookout, and in 1968 the referee’s tower. Electric lighting of the toboggan run took place in 1959.

Ján Juraj Rainer, a tenant of Starý Smokovec, was the first to discover the benefits of providing comprehensive services to guests who came for a medical stay in Smokovec. Smokovec was a convenient starting point for hikes to Lomnický štít and to Mala and Veľká Studena dolina. The Starolesnian glade provided a convenient place for the construction of a small cozy house, which could provide an emergency overnight stay and protection from discomfort. The first step was to improve the path from Smokovec to Hrebienok. In 1863, he developed a cottage project. It was built two years later. It was made of stone, with small windows and one room measuring 5 x 5.5 m. Inside there was a hearth and a wooden crossbar. The cottage did not last long. When Juraj Rainer died, it started to deteriorate. The guests of Starý Smokovec gathered in 1876 to repair it. The second year, the Hungarian Carpathian Society contributed with a collection. They repaired it, but it no longer attracted tourists.

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Location: Hrebienok, Reinerova utulna, Bilikova Cottage

Time: December 2022

This post contains very special moments during my visiting cottage close to Popradske Pleso.

The Cottage close to Popradský pleso stands near the ball. Popradské pleso is the fourth largest lake by area. There is a symbolic cemetery for the victims of the High Tatras in the limbo grove near the lake.

Pleso was together with Mengusovská dolina in the village of Mengusovce. Even so, it bears the name of the distant city of Poprad. Probably because the Poprad river flows through it, which springs from the marsh under Ostrva. Popradské pleso as mentioned in the Latin work Bibliotheca, seu Cynosura Peregrinantium, hoc est: Viatorium in duas partes digestum (Liber Secundus) (Ulm 1644) Kežmarčan Dávid Fröhlich. Polyhistorian Matej Bel in 1736 mentions it as Fish Eye. He speaks of it as a ball in which, as the only one on the southern side of the High Tatras, fish lived. The name was taken over by Hungarians and Germans, but because on the Polish side of the Tatras, Rybí pleso was called Morské oko, they called Popradské pleso Malé rybie oko or Popradské rybie oko. The ball was even referred to as the Mengus Ball, which had a rational basis. In the end, he took over and established the name Popradské pleso.

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Location: Cottage Popradske Pleso, High Tatras, Mountains

Time: December 2022

This post contains very special photos during my visiting mountains in Štrbske pleso in high tatras.

The name of the lake is derived from the Subtatra village of Štrba. It is a moraine lake created by a retreating glacier. It is the second largest body of water on the Slovak side of the High Tatras after Velky Hincovo pleso. It occupies an area of ​​19.76 ha, the volume of its waters is 1,284,000 m³ and in some places it reaches a depth of 20 m. The Budapest professor Dionýz Dezső was the first to definitively map and measure it in 1875.

Strba tarn – Szentiványi used the lake for the entertainment of spa guests – boating and fishing. He planted fish here in 1860. Ice was mined from the lake in the winter months. Already in the winter of 1872-1873, they delivered several wagons to Budapest restaurants, later to Poprad and Kežmar butchers, to Polish Wroclaw, but also to the imperial court in Vienna. The ice was transported by carters and trains of the Košice-Bohumín Railway. The last shipment was about February 1902 for a Budapest brewery.

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Location: Štrbske pleso, High Tatras, Mountains

Time: December 2022

This post contains very special photos during my holidays in high tatras especially during winter wonderland.

Tatranská Lomnica is one of the cadastral territories of the town of Vysoké Tatry, until recently an independent municipality. Tatranská Lomnica is one of the largest settlements in the territory of the High Tatras. It is located 6 km east of Smokovec, at the foot of Lomnický štít.

The SAS Astronomical Institute is located here.

This territory had since 1209, when it was the subject of the first royal donation of Andrew II. several owners. The last private owner was Ondrej Spóner, from whom the Hungarian state bought this territory in 1892. In this year, the first state spa was established in the High Tatras and another of the Tatra settlements – Tatranská Lomnica. In 1893, Hotel Lomnica was built, at that time the largest in the territory of the High Tatras, later a remarkable Spa house with a pool and hydrotherapy. In 1905, a representative Grandhotel was built, which was renamed Grandhotel Praha in 1919. At that time, several sports grounds, a ski and toboggan run, an ice rink, and tennis courts were built.

In the interwar period, a number of family boarding houses and private residences grew up in Tatranská Lomnica. In 1933, the largest modern rehabilitation center in Morava was also built. The settlement gained its main tourist attraction in the years 1937 – 1940, when a cable car was built to Skalnaté pleso and Lomnický štít. Its construction also enabled the construction of astronomical and meteorological workplaces at Skalnat pleso and on Lomnicky štít.

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Location: Tatranska Lomnica, High Tatras, Mountains

Time: December 2022

This post contains information during my visiting museum in Humenne during this special season. And also christmas decorations in Humenne available to the public.

In the Christmas atmosphere of the joint presentation of the museum calendar of the Vihorlat Museum in Humenné and the city of Humenné – a candidate for the title City of Culture 2024, the museum made the exhibition To the New Year… part of the exhibition of period Christmas cards and modern calendars also includes the new museum calendar Renaissance Manor in Humenné. 2023. The calendar was brought to your attention during the Christmas concert by the singing members of the Chemlon Humenné Folklore Ensemble – the male singing group Hačure and the female singing group Bosoročky. The exhibition Until the New Year… will last in the Orest Dubaya Gallery Hall of the Vihorlat Museum in Humenno until January 31, 2023.

Christmas or the Christmas holidays (abbreviated Holidays) are the Christian holidays of the birth of Jesus Christ, today and in general – by Christians and non-Christians alike – the holidays of peace and peace celebrated at the same time. As a religious and cultural festival, they are celebrated by billions of people around the world. They are preceded by a preparatory period (Advent or Filipovka) and continue with the Christmas octave, or by the holiday or period called the Christmas season. The days from December 24 to 26 are days of rest and as a family or social event they are celebrated by most non-Christians, who sometimes refer to them only in general as “holidays”, which does not indicate their Christian aspect.

Christmas belongs (together with Easter) to the most important Christian holidays, December 25 is a holiday in almost all Christian churches. Many folk traditions, songs (carols), decoration, food and other customs are associated with Christmas.

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Location: Humenne – my Hometown

Time: December 2022

This post contains very special photos during my preparations for christmas and baking cookies as well.

Christmas tree as the basis of Christmas
One of the most important symbols of Christmas is the Christmas tree and its decoration. The Christmas tree came to us around the 16th century from Germany. In the streets, centers and shop windows we see decorated trees at least since Advent. Originally, the Christmas tree was replaced only by decorated branches. Later, Christmas trees became popular in our country, which were placed in the common room – often they were hung on a beam or even “upside down”. The Christmas tree is most often a pine, hemlock or spruce. Recently, artificial trees, which make life easier for people, have also become popular here. We decorate the tree according to our own discretion and imagination. According to one of the legends, decorating the tree comes from the time of Martin Luther. The candles on the tree symbolize the stars, and the large star at the top represents the star of Bethlehem. Little by little, the trees began to be decorated with decorations such as dried fruits and nuts.

The decorations on the tree indicated the wishes that people hoped would come true. Christmas balls on the tree One of the first decorations that we hang on the Christmas tree right after the lights are Christmas balls. Christmas balls come in different sizes, colors and decorations. Their history began in 1889, when Frenchman Pierre Dupont patented their production. At first, the balls were only one-colored, later they were also decorated with ornaments. From the twentieth century, in addition to Christmas balls, other blown Christmas decorations such as stars, hearts, pine cones and angels began to be produced. Nowadays, there is a wide assortment and we can make Christmas balls at home, for example, from yarn, twine, straw or wood. Nuts and apples as a symbol of Christmas Nuts and apples have long been considered a symbol of Christmas in Slovakia. People hung them either on a tree or in windows. On Christmas Eve, the apple is cut. If a star appears after cutting, it means health and abundance in the family. After dinner, the oldest member of the family throws the nuts into the corners as a symbol of abundance in the family throughout the year.

And baking moments especially making vanilla tea cookies as following recipe that you can try as well:

INGREDIENTS
300 g flour
50 g powdered sugar
200 margarine
vanilla paste or essence
jam

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and process the dough.
Roll it out on a sheet pan to about 3-4 mm and cut out with molds.
Bake on a baking sheet lined with paper at 180 C for 12-15 min.
They should stay nice and white. We glue the baked cookies with fruit jam.

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Location: Hažín nad Cirochou – My homevillage

Time: December 2022

This post contains very special photos during my visiting christmas markets in other region. Please, feel free to click on following URL link and you will see more details.

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On Friday, November 25, 2022, they opened the Christmas season in Snin on the square by lighting the Christmas decorations, which will be followed by a concert by Juraj Hnilica. You can also look forward to Christmas markets, punch or sweet mead.

Location: Snina County, Prešov District

Time: November 2022