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