Comments on: Days Like This, No 2: In the Tatra With Bears and Nuns http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/ ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:15:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-12950 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 11:01:31 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-12950 Hi Aleksandra. Thank you for your comment. I’ve just taken a look at Orla Per?? on the internet and it looks really something. If I return to the Tatra then it will be top of my list ??? but it does look pretty scary. I’ve been to Poland many times but to the Tatra only once. It is a beautiful part of the country.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: aleksandrawierzbowska http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-12902 Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:21:28 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-12902 I’m really glad that you appreciate the beauty of our mountains. I hope that you will come back one day again. You should try to climb Orla Per??. It’s the hardest and the most beautiful trail on our side. Actually it’s not very hard, but quite dangerous.
I read some part of your blog and I must say that I’m really stunned. You have a big talent to writing and also to photography. I’m waiting for new posts!

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5681 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:53:42 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5681 Hi Howellsey. It’s a fantastic place in every respect. Except for the bears. But I’ve just read that they’re very quiet and keep themselves to themselves.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: Howellsey http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5679 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:00:52 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5679 That has seriously piqued my interest in this part of the world. Looks fantastic! I like the aded frission of a potential bear encounter too!

]]> By: Jo Woolf http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5590 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 09:30:41 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5590 Hi Alen, I’m grateful to Martin who has put me straight on the John Wayne issue. Oh dear, I might not mention The Quiet Man to Colin in case he feels the need to watch another western (life usually stops for a western). I wondered about the bears because I do some work for a wildlife tour company that takes clients to look for them! (In Europe, that is, not the US). On a bare mountainside, at least both you and the bear would feel equally exposed! Although this theory may not be quite so comforting in practice. As for climbing trees, aha, watch and learn! :) (Or maybe not!)

]]> By: Jo Woolf http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5589 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 09:25:15 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5589 Thank you, Martin! I guess that shows how much attention I was paying (oops!) Aha – I shall look at people’s rucksacks in a new light from now on!

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5582 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 02:06:55 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5582 Hi Martin. Thanks for that comment. You’ve got me thinking now because I’ve just read the About section on your blog and you say “the blog has become an end in itself”. And I’m thinking ??? that’s happened to me too. Because my blog started out as an idea to showcase my limited writing skills and perhaps generate some income, but I get so much pleasure from postng articles and making new friends that I don’t really care where things are going any more.
Cheers now, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5580 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:44:28 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5580 Hiya Jo. I think Martin has answered your John Wayne question. All I would like to add to the subject is that Big John’s best film, so far as I am concerned, is The Quiet Man. Pure entertainment.
The bears thing has got me thinking. I’ve a feeling that someone was killed or attacked by a bear in the Pyrenese about six years ago, because it coincided with our last visit to that area and it sticks in my mind. I might be wrong.
Either way, I don’t want to meet one when I’m alone on a bare mountainside. I can’t climb trees as quickly as I used to. Although some people have no trouble, apparently.
All the best, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5578 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:16:09 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5578 Hi David. I just want to say I’ve read your comment late at night, I’ve had a few beers, and I’ve just laughed my head off at your “shy bairns get nee chocolate” gem of Geordie knowledge. How true that is. Professional photographers know all the tricks, and that’s probably why they are professional photographers ??? along with taking decent pictures, of course.
And as for the bears, if I’m ever in that situation I certainly will make a great deal of noise. Thanks for the advice.
All the best, Alen

]]> By: mbc1955 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5574 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:12:22 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5574 Hi Jo. I think you’ll find it was Two Mules for Sister Sara, and Clint Eastwood not John Wayne.Shirley Maclaine was the, um, nun, who was not quite as religious as the two dozen Alen met (for one thing, she certainly didn’t have a proper rucksack).

]]> By: mbc1955 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5572 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:09:23 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5572 Alen, yours is rapidly turning into one of my favourite sites on the web. Being currently all but cut off from the felltops, it’s a window for me into better days when I could get around a lot more, though my wanderings were almnost exclusively confined to the Lakes. I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve added a link to your blog off my own site, encouraging anyone who reads my recollections of the fells to come here for a treat.

Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Jo Woolf http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/06/days-like-this-no-2-in-the-tatra-with-bears-and-nuns/#comment-5564 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:57:46 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7493#comment-5564 Hi Alen, Love your retro-style blog posts! What spectacular mountains. There’s no way I would walk on those ridges. Crikey! Your nun encounter brought up a hazy memory of a John Wayne film that I was made to watch – was it Three Goats for Sister Sarah or Three Nuns with Sister Sarah? You certainly beat that, with 24! Poland looks beautiful. Has anyone ever been attacked by a bear in Europe? (Sorry if that’s an ignorant question, but I really don’t know!)

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