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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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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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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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