Vladimír Gulík

We’ve been looking for Mr. Gulík for a week to find out he’s on vacation across the border. It wasn’t easy to get to him. The bell had hidden under the leaves of ivy, which turned the fence of the family house on the edge of Kubraj. For the second time around us, a cuddly cat, Muro, was moping around us. The more obstacles, the more interesting was the visit.

Vladimír Gulík showed us a lake with golden caras, his workshop, where he works dental technology and gluing paper models. Finally, we also looked at the courtyard and the garden with chickens and a private pond, where fishermen and their grandson could enjoy fresh trout on the grill. During the pandemic, when it was impossible to walk anywhere, Mr. Gulík’s court was a game room for a flock of children from neighbors. No wonder. Despite being long aged, the master of the house reminded more of the boy in puberty by his spontaneousness and optimism. And his life story matched that feeling.

Before he could talk to him, he sat us on the terrace, and his attentive wife, Alenka, offered us big, sweet dates straight from Malaga, from where they returned a few days ago.

I have a visitor from the Ministry, and he introduced us to a wife who is a dentist and was just about to work.

Vladko, as friends call him, is a man of many occupations and hobbies. He was involved in folklore and in a Bit band. He’s still playing drums in Captain Slice formation.

It’s a big recession. Even though we’re old men over the grave, as they say, we’re still soul punks,” he said laughing. He started the first band with his friends in puberty.

From then on, Lubor made texts about love and peace. They’re just like Elan’s, just for his strong stomachs, and he said and added they’re still the soul of rockers.

He was not surrounded by folklore wave, since he was a member of folk music. Jozef Polomsky led him to this genre and violin.

I drink eternal fame for it, because he served me in folk school, although I did not enjoy folklore. When we started to play tunes, it caught me, and then he took me into folk music and my life turned around, and he remembered the violin teacher, who didn’t hesitate to cut off even the ear if he found out that his pupil didn’t practice properly. The folk music of Brezin would be a topic in itself. Party, party, wedding.

The more unexpected is the fact that after high school you headed for college in Košice and the army. It was developed as an elite pilot of a military helicopter.

The fact that I was not in a group of comrades gave me a proper feeling, so I left quite early. After the division of the Republic, with which I was absolutely not identified,” he said. He also minded that the comrades turned into masters from evening to morning and said that he would try something else.

He was a sales representative for the footwear company, and when his daughter was born, he began to study post-secondary studies in the high school in Žilina, a dental technician.

I drove daily to Žilina, there was no highway yet. After the headmaster and the classroom, I was the oldest in the school,– he said with a smile. In order to be a dental operator, he finished his Bachelor’s degree.

Since then I’ve been at home talking to my teeth, he added.

Vladimir showed us a workshop, a collection of beautiful paper models, and machines that he and his grandchildren made. Its evening ritual is the gluing of paper models of buildings or various techniques or reading. Especially criminals. He likes to put Slitra on his computer with Dry, Lasica with Satinsky or Cimrmanov.