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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Poland 3: Stalked by Copernicus

    Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 18 June 2010

    Wherever I go in northeastern Poland, I inevitably encounter a man in a robe holding a globe of the world. This is none other than Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer who first proposed that the Earth orbits the sun. He’s also a member of an exclusive club - famous Poles who outsiders sometimes don’t realise are Polish. I think of them as the Four Cs: Copernicus, Curie, Conrad and Chopin.

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  4. Signs and Portents: Poland 2

    Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 4 September 2009

    This week, more odd, crazy and downright strange signs that I've spotted on my travels. Here are some more from my journey through Poland for Lonely Planet in the frosty winter of 2006...

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