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Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:48 am**

For froggies like me, the definition of EC Europe is very simple: everything that geography books didn't teach us before 1990.
Similarly than the lure of ski resorts in the Alps is pulling masses of Polish tourists, the unknown is for us the carrot at the end of the stick, no matter how high are the mountains in the "wild east"

I'm just back from where near you live too, BK. Croatian mountains are small but some things make them unique on the map of the world.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:05 pm**

borutbk wrote:Konrad is from EC Europe though ?

Absolutely.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:06 pm**

The Bura wind that partly destroyed one stick of my tent suggests me that the mediterranean world stops very suddenly over the crest of the Dinarics and not a single metre further.
Furthermore, I'm glad to know I was already almost a "central european" if I refer to the location of my hometown on the map ! Sto lat !

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:33 pm**

yatsek wrote:Clint,
It seems like you've strayed off route. Do you think you could remove your post and open your own thread on Vodkastock etc.?
Thanks in advance
Jacek

Sorry Jacek, was a wee bit drunk when I was on SP yesterday and now it doesn't allow me to kill that post...

Anyways, had good fun at beer/weedstock... Unfortunately, or maybe very fortunately, only very little wódka there...

Cheers,
Clint.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:37 pm**

borutbk wrote:
visentin wrote:For froggies like me, the definition of EC Europe is very simple: everything that geography books didn't teach us before 1990

I've got that froggie education as well

This thread (check the OP) is about East Central Europe, Central Europe being floristically defined. I find this to be a cool definition.

So, Stockholm, Goteborg, Białystok and Suwałki are Central Russian???

Maybe not a very good idea to give them some ideas... :lol:

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:10 pm**

borutbk wrote:The bura is quite similar to the French mistral.

Indeed. Mistral, Balaguère, Haize Hegoa, Aspr, Halny, Jauk, Bura, Bora, Sonda, Puelche, Chanduy, Chinook, Diablo, Santa Ana, call it as you want, it's a foehn wind.

borutbk wrote:Has anyone heard of people following the Amber route (Jantarska pot) nowadays, like trekking or cycling, or so?

Yes, I've picked some prospectus of this Amber trail while being in Czech republic, and I've read about it in Poland too. From what I remember it runs N-S in central Europe.
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Road
www.ambertrail.info

Proterra wrote:So, Stockholm, Goteborg, Białystok and Suwałki are Central Russian???
Maybe not a very good idea to give them some ideas...

Forgive the one who found this map, he was drunk also during the evening he posted it.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:39 pm**

Proterra wrote:
yatsek wrote:Clint,
It seems like you've strayed off route. Do you think you could remove your post and open your own thread on Vodkastock etc.?
Thanks in advance
Jacek

Sorry Jacek, was a wee bit drunk when I was on SP yesterday and now it doesn't allow me to kill that post...

Anyways, had good fun at beer/weedstock... Unfortunately, or maybe very fortunately, only very little wódka there...

Cheers,
Clint.

That's OK.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:47 pm**

Proterra wrote:So, Stockholm, Goteborg, Białystok and Suwałki are Central Russian???

Maybe not a very good idea to give them some ideas...

Actually, the Presidential Palace in Warsaw is Russian again

but this thread is supposed to be about the MOUNTAINS,

namely the Carpathians, the mountains of the Bohemian Massif and a few hills nearby.

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:11 am**

yatsek wrote:
Proterra wrote:So, Stockholm, Goteborg, Białystok and Suwałki are Central Russian???

Maybe not a very good idea to give them some ideas...

Actually, the Presidential Palace in Warsaw is Russian again

Nah, not really... The current village which functions as Capital is still firmly Central European, right on the top of the "L" the border between the two runs about 50 kilometres east of the Wisła, roughly north-south along the 22nd degree east longtitude... I'd still recommend moving the residence of Bronek, as well as the Sejm and Senate some 300 kilometres south-south-west for "safety reasons" because you did bring up a valid point... :lol:

yatsek wrote:but this thread is supposed to be about the MOUNTAINS, namely the Carpathians, the mountains of the Bohemian Massif and a few hills nearby.

True, lets talk about my record-breaking ascent of Góra Świętej Anny, the highest mountain in the Silesian Highlands on my way west last week... From the bottom to the top in mere minutes... :lol:

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:02 am**

yatsek wrote:but this thread is supposed to be about the MOUNTAINS, namely the Carpathians, the mountains of the Bohemian Massif and a few hills nearby.

Where does East Central Europe stops south Yatsek ? Now I'm afraid my forthcoming dinaric posts don't fit in this thread. In the other case you should apologize towards SP mountaineers of former Yougoslavia, as far as I know Đeravica is taller than Gerlach by one meter

(and we skip Triglav not to offend BK)

Proterra wrote:True, lets talk about my record-breaking ascent of Góra Świętej Anny, the highest mountain in the Silesian Highlands on my way west last week... From the bottom to the top in mere minutes...

That's the hill where the A4 goes three lanes with the petrol station on the pass ? Heard it's nice to ride by bike, I must give it a try...

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:30 am**

visentin wrote:That's the hill where the A4 goes three lanes with the petrol station on the pass ?

Pssssssssst..... Quiet... Don't wake the wolves... But yeah, 150 all the way up, and hit 200 on the way down...

visentin wrote:Heard it's nice to ride by bike, I must give it a try...

Hooligan... :lol:

Try to stay as far right as possible though there, the 110 km/h speed limit on that stretch is regularly ignored...

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:11 am**

Proterra wrote:
yatsek wrote:
Proterra wrote:So, Stockholm, Goteborg, Białystok and Suwałki are Central Russian???

Maybe not a very good idea to give them some ideas...

Actually, the Presidential Palace in Warsaw is Russian again

Nah, not really... The current village which functions as Capital is still firmly Central European, right on the top of the "L" the border between the two runs about 50 kilometres east of the Wisła, roughly north-south along the 22nd degree east longtitude... I'd still recommend moving the residence of Bronek, as well as the Sejm and Senate some 300 kilometres south-south-west for "safety reasons" because you did bring up a valid point...

I'm afraid you're wrong. It's not the residence but the residents who are to be moved east.

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:25 am**

Clint and Eric,
Look, here is something you can bring back to life :wink:

4Clint

4Eric or a better idea: As there's nothing about Bulgaria, why don't you open a Balkans thread :?:

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:36 am**

sjarelkwint wrote:Not planning on joining into the bulgarian nor polish thread ...

At least they speak english here

That's why new threads - IN ENGLISH - will do. One about the mountains of the Balkans and the other about the great hills (and weeds and other things) around the North Sea and the Baltic (HOL-POL-BAL team? :lol:

), such as this

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:13 pm**

Yatsek, don't your Słowiński pictures rather belong to the North Europe entity, where my Rügen album was moved after protests ?

As for a new South-East-Central Europe thread, I think it makes no point. Here is the Wild-East thread, readable in English as Sjarelkwint well underlined, and that's all !

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