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Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery: a memorial to a cruel past
Blog: Sophie's World - 25 January 2012
I’m mysteriously drawn to cemeteries, especially old ones. Wandering along the rows, looking at grave stones, I try to imagine the lives of those long since departed. One particularly evocative graveyard is the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. — Our way there is fraught with difficulty. Warsaw’s tram drivers point us in the wrong direction time [...]Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery: a memorial to a cruel past is a post from Sophie's World
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The Weekly Photo: Fall in Warsaw
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 13 November 2011
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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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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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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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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, [...]
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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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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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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 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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