A Long-Tolerant Spa Town Feels the Chill of Slovak Populism
Mr. al Mekhyal, clicking through a series of photos on his cellphone of some of the 300 camels he owns in Kuwait, along
with a Ferrari, said his family would probably continue to make Piestany part of their regular European idyll.
Monika Koborova said that There is not a problem with people from Israel and people from Arabic countries being side by side,
There were 1,674 more visitors from "other Asian countries," which spa officials said were nearly all other parts of the Muslim world.
One of them, Hassan al Mekhyal, has been bringing his Kuwaiti family for years to Piestany,
where the summer nights feel deliciously cool compared with the furnace back home.
Bereczova said that We had friends visiting, and we took them to the city center in the evening and even we were surprised,
"They come to get healthy, not to make trouble." On cool summer evenings, Muslim visitors frequent the town’s sidewalk cafes.