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Olsztyn Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Olsztyn, Poland
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Nearly full moon
... then started hitch-hiking, it toiok a while but after less than an hour I had a riude in a mini fiat till 25 km from Olsztyn. So most of the hundreds km distance were done. I was so tired that I also couldnt stay awake and felt asleep... probably at the ...
Back in Olsztyn
... were happening around town. We attended a fabulous shanty (Sailing songs) concert in a tavern right under the old castle in Olsztyn. We spent an evening out with Malwina's friends Iwona her soon to be hubby Bartek watching the Polish Junior ballroom ...
Back to Olsztyn
... and every night there is some sort of a concert going on. One evening we were fortunate enough to catch the Olsztyn Philharmonica Orchestra. They were playing a unique new piece that was dedicated to sailors from Olsztyn and the entire Mazury region. It ...
The Black Madonna and Abbey
... so here goes... At Chestohowa is house the black Madonna. A painting of pagan origins which has been adopted to become a symbol of Poland. The painting was crowned Queen of Poland. How you may ask does a painting become queen. Well.. it has the same ...
Malwina's home town
When we got to Olsztyn, we arrived at Dziadek¡¯s (grandpa) big house. We will be staying in a room that Dziadek and Babcia (grandma) used to stay in and has not really been used since Babcia dies 27 years ago. Dziadek has a house that in its time was ...
Travelling Again
... among the many cars, on a stretch where there were construction crews digging up the middle of the road. We went to Olsztyn mainly because of the gothic castle from the 14th century, where Copernicus lived and worked as the administrator of the ...
Warszawa Uprising
We returned to Olsztyn to start work on renovating the apartment that Malwina's mom bought. In Poland, condos are sold in a raw state, meaning concrete floors and walls, and bricks in the bathroom with no pipes. The owner can then decorate and design ...
Around Olsztyn
During our stay in Olsztyn, we made many day trips to some of towns in the area. We visited Slupy, the village where Malwina grew up. We went to see their old house, a big one, with a huge yard right beside the forest. Her mom sold the house 2 years ago ...
Polish wedding
... 's best friends sister, and they had not seen each other for about 15 years. We got dressed up, and headed to Slupy in Olsztyn for a real Polish wedding. We went to the bride's house where the groom was waiting outside for his parents. Together they went ...
Good Bye to Poland
... good bye to Babcia, and spent two more awesome days on the farm. It was bitter sweet time. We had a great time in Poland, very rewarding experience in renovating the appartment from nothing to something that was ready to be lived in, and now we were ...
Sad day for all of Olsztyn
... loss. Malwina's father and brother flew in from Canada for the funeral. We drove to Warszawa to pick them up. Dziadek had lived in Olsztyn for more than 50 years and was a well known citizen. He started the trucking industry in the city and was the first ...
Gdansk - Olsztyn
... lesen (danke tina!) und war danach dreiviertel neun am bahnhof. bis halb zehn. die penner hatten mich schon allerhand ueber olsztyn gefragt, was ich meistens mit unwissenheit beantwortet hatte, und ich wurde echt unruhig. aber am ende ging alles klar, ...
Der dritte Tag
E.D.: : über Gdansk/Danzig nach Olsztyn/Allenstein Das war ein spannender Tag: zunächst fanden wir kein Frühstück (in dem Hotelchen letzte Nacht gab es keins,aber wir fanden auch kein Restaurant), und fuhren sozusagen 'darbend' los, und es ...
Poznan - Olsztyn (330 km; total 1290 km)
Easy day on the back roads in Poland. Wonderful weather again with 25 degrees and blue skies. We spend tonight in Olsztyn and travel on to Vilnius in Lithuania ...
Last day in Poland
Yesterday very successful day chasing ancestors - went tp szczytno (ortelsburg) ,Olsztyn ( Allenstein ), sadowo near biskupiec, alt keykuth in polish stare kiejkuty - there is supposed to be a secret CIA post there. Off to the airport at gdansk. At the ...
We are in Copernicus 's home to town
We met a lovely couple over breakfast who told us how Poland had changed and how poor it used to be. Now it has a fabulous infra structure and is quite modern - only in some of the country towns can you see the remainder of some of the poverty. So we are ...
We found gustav saxarra in zatowo
... all our researched townships and realised how difficult it is to try and establish a connection to the past. Alt keykuth , Allenstein from Olsztyn . We went to a tiny village called zardowo and saw a sign e to the cemetery . Off course we ended up in ...
Olsztyn - visit for the AIESEC OPS conference
Olsztyn is the city in north-eastern Poland, close to the beautiful Mazury Lake region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olsztyn) Unfortunately, I don't know the city very well, only been there few times transiting - this time I spent there ...
Poland
Incredible day in Poland - our hotel st Bruno was an old fortress on the Mazury lakes. Went for a beautiful long walk along the lake. Then drove on to a littler village - mikelska ( can't pronounce any of. The names) and did a ferry ride - gorgeous . It's ...
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