🇸🇰 Today's country is Slovakia. Slovakia's Kremnica Mint has struck coins since 1328. Bratislava works best at walking pace: one minute you are under St. Martin's spire, the next beside the Danube with cyclists and cold river wind. In Banská Štiavnica the air smells of damp stone and coffee, and by evening people drift back to the sloping square as if the whole town kept the same appointment. Then a train north pulls the country open: spruce forest, little stations, and the Tatras suddenly… See more