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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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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 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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Poland 2: Gdańsk by iPhone
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 10 June 2010
Anyone who has an iPhone knows how impressive it is as a portable computer that also provides telephony - and also just how poor its inbuilt camera is. There's no flash, no zoom, and it struggles in low light. However, give the iPhone camera some strong, consistent light and you can take a decent shot with it. I took my iPhone 3GS's camera for a test run yesterday as I walked through the streets of historic Gdańsk, Poland, on my current Lonely Planet assignment to update the Eastern Europe guidebook. Here's what the lens caught...
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Signs and Portents: Poland 3
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 16 October 2009
Gone to Hel and back? Or just dying for a pie in the most unlikely of places? This week I continue my survey of curious signs encountered on a Lonely Planet assignment through Poland in the depths of winter in 2006...1. There’s nothing like that nice Mr Shakespeare to encourage confidence in an English language school... though you might wonder whether Poles are really motivated to speak just like the Bard.
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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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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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