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At least.. the spring has come and the winter is gone!!! (as for winter, it could be cancelled for me).I got a message from Beata - my katrabaho (LOL, =my workmate), who wanted to go biking, cuz the weather was 'splendide'! But since she lives 20km from my town we had to make an appointment somwhere in the middle of the way. And we did. Well it was not exactly in the middle between our houses, but ok, i can go a bit farther;). The place to meet was in Pomorsko at the ferry. After some 40minut...

I've just checked in in our hostel after walking so many miles. And what did I do? Ran to the computer of course! I sent two SMS to Wayne and he did not reply though he told me to ring him, he was supposed to see me at the station. I think I saw him though on the streets with a green shirt and some shorts but I did not approach him. Could be him, could be not. So I decided to look for the hostel and went straight there as I do not feel like I can not rely on that dude. Finally found th...

In Lodz there are few places that are not quite for tourists, but are nice & I like them. Some statues (John Paul II), buildings (Music academy) and some views that I was taking all over Lodz. Oh, and the Old Cemetery. Don't think that I'm a maniac, that visits that places for fun. But it is so beautiful, that I'm always showing it to my friends. And it's important place for Lodz history. My advice: go there in autumn- it's amazing how does yellow, brown and red leafs make the cem...

Today we had a picnic at Zakrzowek, which used to be a quarry, but now is just some cliffs with an extremely nice view of Krakow on one side, and a lake to the other.

The other morning I was out for a walk and was surprised to see hundreds of colorfully decorated bears occupying the castle square here in Warsaw.     When I took a closer look I saw that there is one bear for each country in the world - decorated by an artist from that country - and they have been touring since 2002 and have visited cities on four continents so far.  Poland is the tenth country that they have visited.   The bears arrived in Warsaw on May 10th and...

Funka was one of my fauvorite vacation's place when I was a teenager. Orginaly it's a scout camp situated at the Charzykowski Lake in some National Park (Zaborski, maybe. Not sure, we've got plenty of them). I loved the time that I spent there with my friends.  It was kind of art-language-sport's camp, so we've had a lot of stuff to do. Once we were filming a movie about King Arthur. There are some photos, but I will never show you the result (sorry, too embarasing). We had also theatre...

Kayaking is always fun... hm... maybe it's not THAT good when it's raining;)I woke up very early :// cuz the start of todays rout was sheduled on 9.00 and i had still some 70km to go, but first service at my church since it's holyday:) then i had to borrow a towel at friends, cuz i relized that i've forgotten my own (as always! i'm starting to think that the towels don't like me that much as i do like them;) and there was no time to go back home). I should have gone to the petrol station the ...

i am in love with Krakow! :)

     We left Berlin this morning and I was very sad to be leaving. There is soooo much to see and Berlin and I will definitely need to return here someday to continue my explorations. We had ben warned that the level of highway systems were not the same in Poland as in Germany...translation there aren't many highways, lol.  Today was also going to be our first border crossing and I had it in my head that I wanted it to be more than just a thank you and continue to dri...

 Maybe there is only one line - still - but the first polish metro is pretty nice, clean, fast and its noise is the cutest one! hahahaha, kidding! i like them all! especially when the metro train is speeding up while departing from the station! I like the sound of Warszawa Metro and Berlin S-Bahn most!Once upon the time - i got a flight to Rom from Warsaw and since i do not live in the town (just some 450km away) i was traveling by train, then i arrived as early that i could with no prob...

From Głowno over the highway we went to Zielona Góra. The way was quite ok and i managed to get home in only 4 hours, which is pretty good score;) In almost every village that we passed - we could see the storks with their almost grown up kids - now they have to practice flying before they'll leave for Africa in the fall :) [did u know that the storks - which here in Poland are protected and became almost a national symbol - are just regular food in far, far african countries?]

I randomly met up with a group of Californians and two Polish girls who worked at the tourist information booth. The Polish girls wanted to take us to a local sandwich place that was apparently the best bargain food in town, so, being the poor backpackers that we were and resolved not to spend another night eating kielbasa, we decided to go along. We arrived at a small kiosk set up in the middle of a tiny piazza. The kiosk was unremarkable except for the fact that there was a hug...

Wroclaw-POLAND

The Museum honours Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), the writer and essayist noted particularly for his historical novels written to "bolster Poles' spirits" during the partitions. His best-known works are the trilogy OGNIEM I MIECZEM / WITH FIRE AND SWORD, POTOP / THE DELUGE and PAN WOLODYJOWSKI, KRZYZACY / THE BLACK CRUSADERS, and QUO VADIS, set in Nero's Rome, for which Sienkiewicz received the Nobel Prize in 1905. The Museum is housed in a small, eclectic palace built in 1900-1902, w...

that is what my great grandmother told my uncle when she put 145 pictures in his school bag beside some clothes ..... She was drying the pictures before on the kitchen table because during that time the house was looted and the pictures got thrown out of the window into the dirt and my great grandmother picked them out the dirt. With tears in her eyes she was cleaning them.... they had only 10 minutes to leave their house in Strzeszow which is now located in Poland but at that time ...