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Poland 1: Signs of Kraków
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 20 May 2011
It's the end of my first week in Kraków, Poland. As always at this point in these trips, I'm missing home a little, but also being pleasantly reminded of how beautiful this city is.I don't take many photos on these trips, especially when in a city I've visited before, but I do have a few from this week that I'd like to share with you. They're of signs - more or less - which have caught me eye over the past few days...
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Shakespeare Untranslated: To See, or Not to See?
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 12 November 2010
To be, or not to be? To see, or not see a Shakespeare play in a foreign language? Now, that really is the question. When travelling in a country with a different language from your own, a lot of its culture is still open to you.
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Lady in Slovakia
Blog: A Lady in London - 25 August 2010
If you drive from Bratislava to the High Tatras, make sure to have your camera ready. The scenic road runs alongside green farmland, picture-pretty church spires, and bucolic rivers. The best stretches even go by castles. Lots of castles. My friends and I drove north through Slovakia in a caravan of two identical red rental [...]
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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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Companions on the Polish Road 1: Kraków to Gdańsk
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 6 August 2010
When I travelled around Poland in 2008, I made a point of talking with people I encountered along the way. As I was researching a possible travelogue book about Poland, I wanted to get the most out of encounters with locals on my journeys.
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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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Poland 1: Cinematic Exit
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 3 June 2010
You expect change when you visit a city regularly. However, it’s still jarring when seemingly permanent elements of that city disappear. That’s what I discovered in Kraków, my first stop on this year’s Lonely Planet assignment.
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Photo Friday: Poland with Kids
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 5 March 2010
Probably not your first thought for this year’s summer vacation, right? Well – Krakow, Poland is a wonderful place for families, and being just on the edge of Eastern Europe, the value can’t be beat! The city holds a unique place, both geographically and historically, bridging Eastern and Western Europe with delightful results. Krakow, like any European city, has its challenges for the American visitor. Our family found Polish a hard language to crack, and while most younger people, and practically everyone ...
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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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Krakow, Poland
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 8 January 2010
Our Cape Town-Krakow transfer was by no means a direct route.
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Bigos Blog
Blog: No Borders - 29 November 2009
Somerville, Mass - My faithful readers will remember the story of the cabbage, and my brilliant idea to turn it into sauerkraut. Well, here's where the story ends...Don't get me wrong. I absolutely loved being a member of the Food Project CSA this summer. It was a joy to receive all of those fresh organic veggies every week. Sometimes it was a challenge to figure out what to do with them, but it led to the discovery of many new kinds of soups, salads and other veggie delights.
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20 Years
Blog: No Borders - 21 November 2009
Somerville, Mass - Twenty years ago this month, I sat through Professor Dick's Russian class, as he made jokes about the Russian tendancy to use the negative when making requests (something like "You're not getting off the metro here, are you?" instead of "Excuse me, I'm getting off". Or "You wouldn't be able to help me?" instead of "Help!"). "The Russians are so polite," Professor Dick said mockingly, and everyone laughed.I'm sure Professor Dick was a good teacher, but I didn't think he was funny. Nobody is funny at 8:15 in the morning.
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Signs and Portents: Poland 1
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 7 August 2009
Looking through my photos, I've noticed that I love taking shots of strange and quirky signs. They're often quite irrelevant to a story I'm pursuing, and therefore won't get published, but they are a lot of fun and tell you much about the local culture. And make you scratch your head in puzzlememnt. Or at least give you a good chuckle.
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Return of the Red Menace: More Communist-Era Relics
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 30 July 2009
Last week I began counting down the the top ten communist relics I've visited in my travels through Central and Eastern Europe, complete with images (and bonus silly captions!).We're up to the really big structures now. Who will come in at number one? Let the gender-bending drug-enhanced socialist games commence!
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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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Have Yourself a Foreign Little Xmas
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 27 December 2008
The period between Christmas and New Year is not necessarily a quiet one for a freelance writer.
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