Standing on a grassy bank opposite an innocent looking and soggy line of forested trees […]
Category: Poland
Lower Silesia & Jelenia Góra
Trip days can sometimes frustrate best laid plans. We had only expected to do 80 […]
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Salt, the white gold, provided Poland with one third of its income in the time […]
Kraków
The history of Kraków can be read as a potted history of Poland. It has […]
Wadowice & Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Our first day back in Poland became a pilgrimage, without our intending it to be. […]
Crossing into the Czech Republic
The border crossing to the Czech Republic was friendly and efficient at 10am on a […]
Spa towns of the Kłodzko region
Daytime temperatures were spiralling up into the 30s and high pressure was set to squat […]
Wrocław
Wrocław is one of those Polish cities which has passed backwards and forwards between the […]
Oświęcim (Auschwitz)
Auschwitz is notorious as a concentration camp for Jews during World War II but it […]
Poznań, birthplace of Poland
Of all the countries within modern Europe, Poland has surely had the most chequered history. […]