by Mark | Dec 5, 2019 | Architecture, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Transnistria, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates
Ten of the coolest bus terminals we have seen on our travels It was a recent trip to Abu Dhabi that inspired me to look through our archive of photos and see if I could muster up enough images to create a post about bus stations. I know what you are thinking, and I...
by Mark | Apr 13, 2019 | Czech Republic, Poland
Rewind to the days of the Eastern Bloc and the Cold War. The now easily-missed oversized shed in the first photo below was once the border post connecting what was then Czechoslovakia with southern Poland. No such checkpoint exists anymore, you are free to wander...
by Mark | Apr 15, 2018 | Poland, Travel Shot
Today’s travel shot is a surreptitiously-snapped shot of a romantic moment on Wroclaw’s Stary Rynek – the Market Square in the Old Town. As an amusing side story – before we went to Wroclaw, we thought it was pronounced ‘rock-law’...
by Kirsty | Sep 1, 2017 | Czech Republic, Itinerary, Poland, Slovakia
Suggested Itinerary to Poland, Czech & Slovakia: Warsaw to Kosice ITINERARY SUMMARY (Poland) Warsaw – Lodz – Poznan – Wroclaw – Kłodzko – Kudowa-Zdroj (Czech Republic) – Brno – Olomouc – Ostrava – Cesky Tesin...
by Mark | Jun 14, 2017 | Architecture, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Ukraine
An admiration for unapologetic monuments and architecture of the Soviet and communist-era. If I could go back in time with the express purpose of just purely travelling, I would choose two periods. The first would be the early to mid-seventies. Flares and dodgy...
by Kirsty | Jun 2, 2017 | Belarus, Itinerary, Lithuania, Poland
Suggested Itinerary: Vilnius (Lithuania) to Warsaw (Poland) via Belarus ITINERARY SUMMARY (Lithuania) Vilnius – Kaunas – Druskininkai (Belarus) – Grodno (Hrodna) – Minsk – Brest (Poland) – Warsaw After a few days sightseeing in...
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