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 |
ITINERARY SUMMARY (Poland) Warsaw – Lodz – Poznan – Wroclaw – Kłodzko – Kudowa-Zdroj (Czech Republic) – Brno – Olomouc – Ostrava – Cesky Tesin (Poland) – Cieszyn (Slovakia) – Kosice After a few days in...
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 |
ITINERARY SUMMARY (Lithuania) Vilnius – Kaunas – Druskininkai (Belarus) – Grodno (Hrodna) – Minsk – Brest (Poland) – Warsaw After a few days sightseeing in Vilnius (including time for a day trip to the nearby redbrick castle at...
by Mark | May 22, 2017 | Europe Guides, Off the Beaten Path, Poland |
Kielce – a small Polish town, perfectly placed to overnight and break up the journey between two of Poland’s greatest cities So I have to admit, we broke the journey between Krakow and Warsaw because we wanted to see a bus station. Yep, we are strange like that...
