My childhood mountains are a slice of heaven that one wants to gatekeep, a dreamy scene of chocolate-box chaty or chalets framed by Slavic mountains where one stands in the shoes of Machkeon’ favourite write JRR Tolkien, who took scenic inspiration from this kind of lanscapes in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. A heart-in- mouth ascent takes one to Lomnicky Stit … the fog lifts and and the summit reveals the secret eagle 🦅 eye views of my family home in Vrbov …
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