| We visited a mountain lake across the border in Slovakia.
We took a boat ride over to a small island offshore and toured an
old church building (now a museum). We learned that the lake was manmade
and previously there had been 4 villages around a high hill containing
their church. And when the area was flooded this church was the only
building left on the hill in the middle of what now is a lake. Inside
the church were many carved icons dating back to the 12th century.
What impressed me was that when we arrived at the
lake, it was misting rain from a low-lying cloud as we prepared
to launch to the island. Before reaching the island, the cloud lifted
and the mist left during entire time we were on the island and then
started again after we got back into our car! | |||||||||||
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In the 1950's the Czechoslovakian government decided to make a dam in the Orava region. The result: four villages flooded. One hill of one village remained above the water level; on that hill was a church. Of course it made no sense for it to remain a church. "What?!" asked Jan, "Were they supposed to go to church by boat?" So they turned it into a museum. Mel 'n' Omi, as might be expected, were fascinated. |
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