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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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Warsaw - Polish capital, poor cousin
Blog: 501 Places - 8 September 2009
I talk to lots of people who are going to Poland this year, or who have just been. When I ask where their trip takes them, 90% will be heading to Krakow and taking day trips around the city.
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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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Country number 7
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 23 August 2009
I can safely say that the hostel in Krakov is in the top 2 or 3 hostels I’ve ever stayed at. The staff are so much fun. There’s one gay (I presume) guy from near Gdansk who is hilarious, he wouldn’t ever serve me until I pronounced the beer name correctly (something I’m incapable of [...]
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Grandstand
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 22 August 2009
I’m feeling somewhat tender this morning as I was up to 5 in the morning drinking in the hostel and talking to randoms from many nations while supping cheap beer. Was okay. This hostel is ace actually but my rant on the key (as in Yale, not crucial) situation yesterday was well justified as vindicated [...]
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Excuse-me Madam, but I appear to be locked out of Kenya
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 20 August 2009
The train wasn’t much fun last night, I managed to get a seat but it was that cramped that after 40 minutes or so my knee was aching too much (I’m glad I didn’t let the sods operate on my left one too) so I went and stood for the rest of the trip. It [...]
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Uncle Joe propoganda
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 20 August 2009
Did you know 1 in 20 Australians are abroad at any one time? That’s 1 million of the tucker loving, boomerang throwing, gold medal winning, corky hatted, pom bashing, Fosters swigging, convicted ‘Neighbours’ extras. You might even say that there’s ‘heaps’ of them abroad, I certainly would as they have without doubt been the best [...]
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Walking in Warsaw
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 19 August 2009
While I was doing my usual Internet rounds this morning I came across this on the BBC Football site and I proceeded to make the following submission: “Dear Steve, How come your voice goes all high pitched when you get excited on the radio? You sound like Theodore of ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ fame. Ta, Dan” It reminded me of an [...]
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Mam-nah emu-Sue, yak let-she?
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 18 August 2009
I had the best sleep last night I’ve had in a long long time, about 8 and a half hours. One might even be tempted to say Jurassic Park. I feel all the better for it. The New World St. Hostel seems great too. I was a bit worried at first as to get to [...]
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Memories of Poland
Blog: Budget Trouble - 12 August 2009
I've been thinking a lot about Poland lately. A friend of mine asked me if I liked it there, and when I answered that yes, I did, she wanted to know what it was that I liked most. Hmmm... Now, that's a difficult question. And I'm not going to give you the standard cookie-cutter, touristy answers to it, because that you can read in all sorts of guidebooks all on your own. So, here are my thoughts (some of them were published in a more genteel form on a different blog, but here you get the uncut version): Poland is...
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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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From Ale Pail to Bigos Bucket
Blog: No Borders - 3 July 2009
Somerville, Mass - This year we joined the Food Project CSA, which is a fantastic way to support a good cause and get a regular supply of delicious, locally grown, organic veggies at a very decent price. But it's not without its challenges. This week, we received a gigantic Asian cabbage, completely unannounced. What on earth am I supposed to do with that?
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Top Nine Things to Miss about Krakow
Blog: No Borders - 24 June 2009
#9 Hejnal - Every hour, the bugle call from the Mariacki steeple sounds across the Old Town. True, it seems sort of excessive to do it every hour.
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Post-it Note
Blog: No Borders - 19 June 2009
Somerville, Mass - Krakow is plastered in posters announcing upcoming events and exhibits. In Poland, posters are not only advertisement, but art in and of themselves, often with a social or political message. Click here to see my photo gallery.
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Back to Reality
Blog: No Borders - 13 June 2009
Somerville, Mass - I am done. Three months and three continents later, I am back in the pink house. Back to reality, as they say.Reality is not so bad, I decided. Here are some highlights from the pink house:
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Open-Air Museum of Kashubian Culture in Szymbark
Blog: Budget Trouble - 10 June 2009
There are many things about Poland that I absolutely love – like for example goose schmaltz (smalec made from goose fat, as opposed to pork), which is simply divine, and from what I'm hearing - also an old folk remedy...
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The Last Hurrah
Blog: No Borders - 7 June 2009
Szczawnica, Poland - In case you're wondering, it's pronounced shchavnit'sa and it's a village in the Pieniny Mountains. And - in case you're wondering - the Pieniny are a picturesque range in the Carpathians in southern Poland.
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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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Familiarity Breeds Content
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 22 October 2008
I was in a train station when the revelation hit me.
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Poland 6: Mountain Finale
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 15 June 2008
I'm nearing the end of the Lonely Planet section of my journey.
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Poland 3: Bears of Warsaw
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 17 May 2008
What's more interesting than the classic attractions of a city, the sights that are always there? Perhaps the sights that aren't always there, temporary attractions that come and go, and can't be captured in the pages of a guidebook.
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Poland 2: Hooray for Hollywoodge!
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 13 May 2008
I'm typing this in the breakfast room of the Hotel Savoy in Łódź, Poland. But don't get too excited - it's a far cry from the Savoy in London (this place is two-star).
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Poland 1: Art and the Sleep Debt
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 7 May 2008
God I'm tired. I haven't yet been in Poland for 24 hours, and have hardly got started on the mountain of work that is a Lonely Planet research job, but I'm exhausted already.Actually, the tiredness has very little to do with the work, and a lot to do with how I got here.
