Poland Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

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…

Apart from few churches, we have seen everything in Krakow that we wanted to see. And yet, we got a full day to spend here. That is because we first thought of going to Chestochowa, but finally didn't do so. Luckily, the weather is on our side today, so we can just stroll around a bit and enjoy our last day here.We start with a walk past the three churches we still wanted to see: the Dominican church, the Saint Franciscan basilica and the Saint Peter and Paul church. Looking back to it now, t…

We woke up pretty late - some had already absolved the bath in the river - and this without telling me a word!!! Jerks! I wanted to swim as well! Ok i will do this later in the day. Maybe i could fall into the water unexpected - or we find some nice place for swimming on our way.   The plan for today was: drive to the place when we should start our kayaking trip - meet the guy who we rented the kayaks from, and off we go to our tent village:) some 6-8hrs <it depends of yo…

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…

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.

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…

Unfortunatly i wasn't able to sleep to well due to the fact one of the guys came up to our room to sleep in the middle in a very very small bed. His room partner had thrown up so he couldn't stand the smell:) Anyways, after trying to sleep he finally got up and dressed himself to go downstairs to his room again and that's when my room partner and i finally fell asleep. Still, only hours later we woke to the sound of construction work..yeah!! (sarcasm) So, at 8 in the morning i desided to get …

Wadowice - the name of the town jingled in my mind so long that to stop it I took a trip, very fruitful trip ... The name Wadowice town appears for the firs time in 1327. The town carriest the proud title of ROYAL FREE TOWN of WADOWICE and the crest even today includes a royal crown.  Throughout the 19th century, the present town squere was built.  Already in 1845 existed the hose that became the family home of John Paul II in 1920. I saw a lot, …

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…

i am in love with Krakow! :)

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…

     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…

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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?]