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My second trip to Warsaw

We were interested to find out how much of Warsaw had been rebuilt after the second world war; to us it all looked convincingly old, with the possible exception of the city wall. It's a lovely city to walk around, and a light dusting of snow on the rooftops really added to the charm of the place.We…

It's a new city, but with the feeling of big history behind.

Blog and pictures of my trip to Wroclaw, Warsaw, Krakow, Zakopane, northern Slovakia, and back to Wroclaw.

  The first stop of my 3-leg journey was Warsaw, Poland.  I used to live in Warsaw in 1997, while working for the startup mobile phone company Era GSM.  (I was in business school at Dartmouth College at the time, and working for Era GSM was my summer intership - arguably t…

What do you expect from a country for whom communism isn't such a distant memory? From a country where 20% of the population were killed in World War 2? I'm not a historian by any means, I didn't go to Auschwitz or any museums, but in Warsaw, history is just there. I speak a little German and…

It must have snowed the entire time I was gone... I hadn't seen so much snow in Warsaw since I arrived here in 2007.  Warsaw has an incredible amount of parks and forest space and with snow, in some parts of the city you could imagine that you are really out in the country in the middle of now…

I'm off to meet up with my sister in Amsterdam and spend a few days with her, exploring Amsterdam, Delft and The Hague.  This is going to be a great weekend!  We don't get to see each other very often, so when we do it's a  p a r t y!! This is starting out well.    Th…

And so having left Krakow behind we are now in our final destination before leaving Europe and heading off to Russia - slightly scary but it will all be fine!The maps of Warsaw claim that the city, of which 85% of was destoyed in WW2, is shining once again and has stolen back the crown of cultural …

A visit to the city of "blue and green." It's been about a month since I've gone anywhere or done much of anything other than work.  Summer has arrived, the weather is warm and sunny and I think a few days away will be good.  I've made a hotel reservation, bought a train ticket and this…

Greek has been on my list of places to visit for as long as I remember, but I've never had the opportunity. This trip won't give me much opportunity to see the archaeological treasures that I dream of visiting, but will be a great chance to get to know Corfu, and have a few warm, sunny re…

We started the day with a bus ride through the city with our Warsaw tour guide.  First stop was Lazienki Park where a statue of Fryderyk Chopin sits at the top of a heart-shaped pool.  The pool symbolizes his heart being in Poland.  After his body was buried in France, …

After Majdanek we drove back to Warsaw.  There was a lot of traffic and we didn't get home til about 9:30.  This was a great trip.  All of it.  I'm glad to have seen L'viv and Zamosc, the have returned to Nalechow and Lublin and to have seen Mahdanek.  That visit has change…

We're in the airport waiting for our flight VV4751 on Aerosvit Ukrainian Arilines to leave.  This is an exciting trip for me, as was Lithuania, beacuse theya re places that I never expected to be able to visit.  It's amazing, I think that half of the Spaniards in Warsaw are heading to the…

Well I'm not gonna write a lot about my hometown but I need to make it clear from where exactly I depart ;) After all it takes alomst a day (as in 12 hours) to get on the other side of the Atlantic. The journey wouldn't last that long if the flight was non -stop, but unfortunately I needed to …