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Buying Air Tickets – How to find the best flights and cheapest fares
Blog: My Little Nomads - 29 July 2010
Tips, advice and great web sites for finding the best airlines and cheapest prices for your next vacation.READ MORE AT: Buying Air Tickets – How to find the best flights and cheapest fares Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families
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Day 155: Climbing to the Polish-Slovak Border
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 14 July 2010
On top of Mt Kasprowy Wierch That's it. No more strenuous exercise for the rest of summer! We're sitting at the top of Mt Kasprowy Wierch (1947m) with Poland to our left and Slovakia to our right, and my legs feel like jelly... We could have done it the quick way via cable car but we wanted to hike. We were told it was a relatively easy hike (by someone whom I would later find out had not
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Day 153: An Important Lesson in History
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 12 July 2010
Krakow, Poland - the first of our Euro destinations that has made travel in this continent worth it for me. We pulled into Warsaw yesterday at 5am and didn't feel like messing with a big city so decided on a whim to continue our journey here. A much needed "wow" just when we were beginning to feel constipated of our travels, stuck and somewhat disinterested in Europe, wondering why we exchanged
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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 4: Beauty and the Beast
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 27 June 2010
I've just made my latest visit to Białowieża, in Poland's east, and came away with the same confusion I always feel about how the place is marketed to the visitor.
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Krakow Poland's PhotoMonth Event is Better with Pirogies (and Oscypki)
Blog: MuseumChick - 21 June 2010
This was my first time visiting Poland. It was an impromptu decision. I was going to Germany and Poland happens to be their neighbor. I love pirogies, wanted to visit Auschwitz and wanted to learn more about Poland than pirogies and Auschwitz. I arrived just in time for the final week of Krakow's PhotoMonth Event. Being one of Poland's oldest cities and a UNESCO world heritage site, Krakow is a dynamic setting to display contemporary artists photographs at various locations around the city.
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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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International Marriage Series #5- Poland and Japan
Blog: Vagobond.com - 18 June 2010
In # 1 of this series, I presented the questions. # 2 profiled Kay and Todd from Japan and the USA # 3 profiles Vibek and Spencer from Norway and Gibralter #4 profiles Logan and from the USA and France #5 profiles Anna and Dr. Trouble from Poland and Japan 1) Your names Anna and Dr. Trouble 2) Your blog www.budgettrouble.com 3) Your [...]
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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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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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Surviving Auschwitz
Blog: The Adventures of D - 1 June 2010
I didn’t want to go to Auschwitz. In fact, I had been dreading the trip to the concentration camp since I knew I was going to be in Europe. Maybe “didn’t want to go” is not accurate. I wanted to go … but knew it would be an experience that would be achingly painful. As [...]
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Being Jewish in the Krakow Jewish District
Blog: The Adventures of D - 27 May 2010
On my second full day in Krakow, I decided to do my walkabout. I knew there were places I wanted to go — mostly the locations on the map marked with a Jewish star, also known as the Jewish District. I know Poland is seeped with a terrible history as it relates to Jews (and [...]
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A Polish funeral and Krakow
Blog: The Adventures of D - 26 May 2010
When someone questioned me as to why Poland, my answer back was “why not?” When I first decided to go to Krakow, it was because of the city’s close proximity to Auschwitz, as someone who identifies myself as Jewish it was a place I felt necessary to visit. I had heard mixed reviews about Poland. [...]
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Romanian sunsets, Hungarian mornings and Polish afternoons
Blog: The Adventures of D - 25 May 2010
I stood outside at 22h 40 (I know, very European of me), backpack strapped tight to me, messenger bag slung across my front and purse on my arm. Whew. It was time to depart Cluj and head to Krakow. Via bus. Back to Budapest. When Arpad first told me I had to take a bus [...]
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A BRIEF intermission: Chasing spring … two months in
Blog: The Adventures of D - 7 May 2010
A year ago, when I lived in Atlanta, I remember marveling at the city's sheer gorgeousness with the changing of the season. The pink flowers that would sprout from the winding trees. The bright green grass that would pop up overnight.
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Overlooking Birkenau
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 20 April 2010
Birkenau. The name may not carry as much horror as the word Auschwitz, but it should.
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A Piece of Magic Ancient Forest
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 5 April 2010
I learned about some of the last remains of the once bountiful European primeval forest not from a guidebook or fellow traveler, but rather from the book, The Zookeeper's Wife - an excellent read. The Białowieza Forest, originally all within Russian borders, now lies partly in Belarus, known there as Belovzhskaya Pushcha, and partly in Poland almost due east of Warsaw.
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Entering Auschwitz
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 30 March 2010
Entry to Auschwitz feels like a macabre blend between a Saturday afternoon football crush, a communist toilet block and the road to hell itself...
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The secret powers of knowing a foreign language
Blog: 501 Places - 29 March 2010
If knowledge is power, then what value should we place on covert intelligence? It is not only military chiefs who would like to have access to certain furtive conversations. We are all spies at heart, and I defy anyone to say that they have never listened in to a conversation on a bus, at a [...]The secret powers of knowing a foreign language is a post from: 501 Places
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Poznań City Center, Wielkopolska, Poland
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 28 March 2010
Poznań International Fair spire Adam Mickiewicz, Polish national poet monument, Poznań
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Maltanka Toy Train, Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 28 March 2010
The Maltanka toy train is major attraction for children, joining beginning of Malta lake with New Zoological Garden in Poznan Maltanka toy train station half-timbered wall building
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Ostrów Tumski / Tumski Cathedral Island, Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 28 March 2010
The oldest part of Poznań and Poland. Gothic church of the Virgin Mary and Peter and Paul Cathedral on Poznań Ostrów Tumski
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Old Market Square, Poznań, Wielkopolskie, Poland
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 28 March 2010
Poznań Town Hall build in Renaissance style
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A Cold and Lonely Path: Into Auschwitz
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 25 March 2010
I’m running through Kraków’s bus station, spinning around to see coaches lined up behind me and smaller trams rattling through the concrete space below. My eyes jump around, searching for D8, for...
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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 ...
