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Companions on the Polish Road 2: Toruń to Lublin
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 13 August 2010
“A good companion shortens the longest road.” This sentence is an old Turkish proverb, and it proved very applicable to my recent research trip through Poland for Lonely Planet.
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Poland 5: Bite-Sized Lublin
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 1 July 2010
I'm back home now, and the contrast between the long days of the Polish summer and the short days of the chilly Melbourne winter are freaking me out just a little. But before I leave the subject behind, lets pay a visit to one of my favourite Polish cities, the somewhat overlooked Lublin in Poland's southeast. As I wrote in Lonely Planet's Eastern Europe book, Lublin would make a nice substitute for the wildly popular Kraków when the latter city's tourist crowds are too much to cope with.
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Signs and Portents: Poland 4
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 21 January 2010
Did Sherlock Holmes ever visit Poland? How many wheels do you really need to sell chocolate? And would you rather stand beneath a tiger or a pear? It's been a few months since I posted my most recent example of curious signs encountered on my Lonely Planet assignment in Poland in winter 2006... so here's another serve.
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Red Menace: Communist-Era Relics
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 23 July 2009
I was recently writing an article on Vilnius, Lithuania, which started me thinking about all the former communist countries I've visited in Central and Eastern Europe.I love those places.
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