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- Warsaw
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- Zloty (PLN)
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- 38,633,912
- Population
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Poland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Poland
Mikolajki
... Camp Wagabunda. The roads really did deteoriate in quality and condition. The Satnav arrival times were way too optimistic throughout Poland. We chose the campsite due to the little Internet symbol next to it in the German campsite book we'd picked up. ...
Poland: cheap food, salt mines, Auschwitz
I have already decided that I absolutely love Poland. Granted, we have only been here for a few days so far, but so far it is fantastic. Krakow reminds me so much of Prague. Like Prague, it wasn't bombed to pieces during WWII, so it has lots of beautiful ...
KRAKOW = GOOD PUFF PASTRIES
From Budapest we took an overnight train to Krakow, Poland. This was another fun train ride. We got a sleeper cabin. We hoped it would just be us, but maybe another person. Nope...all 6 beds were taken. For those of you who have ever seen what a 2nd ...
Another day in Poland
... at my CS address, and Anita showed me some photos of her home town, what is located next to the second highest mountain in Poland.. A really nice town.. We wanted to go food shopping,but the shop was already closed.. So we created a chicken pasta with ...
I like it so i had to put a ring on it
... to him here as ‘the pope’ like he is and will always be the one and only. Our only previous experience of Poland limited to our Polish friend Greg. Sufficed to say we were not overly enthusiastic. I am happy to report that Poles wear clothes ...
Wet Monday
Hello I hope everyone had a great Easter and you sprayed your best freind with water on ...
Krakow
... the bus station was. We found the bus station and bought tickets for our bus. Getting onto the bus was a bit crazy - in Poland (just like Asia) they just don´t know how to queue! Christie was getting a bit squished by some of the locals until one ...
Wandering through Krakow
... 3 or 4 hours at least to see all of Wawel Castle so we just did a walk around. It overlooks the longest river in Poland which starts in Slovakia and ends up in Gdansk into the Baltic Sea (Sea of Gdansk really). As it was Sunday, there were ...
Krakow
... in the middle of some ceremony celebrating 750 years of liberation. Liberation from what we're not sure, seeing as Poland didn't even exist between 1795 and 1918. It was divided between Germany, Austria and Russia. To escape the parade of ...
74 Trouble-Free Miles On A New Back Wheel
Hi Everyone, After a very restful rest day in Krakow we covered 74 miles today to reach Pyskowice. We all enjoyed Krakow which is a beautiful city and it was good to have a day out of the the saddle. It is good to know that we are over half way there in ...
sleep, jobs
... 50,000 people about 1.5 hours east of Kraków by train. It is near the Bieszczady mountains, supposedly the wildest in Poland. Our travel guide claims that hikers return from the mountains with stories of encounters with wolves and brown bears and ...
Overnight train from Warsaw to Moscow
... service on the train. Not long after we left Warsaw I was asleep and the next time I woke up we were at the Poland-Belarus border. We got through the Poland side relatively quickly but the Belarus side took a little longer. I had my passport taken off ...
Disintergrating Soles
We woke up pretty excited to see loads of snow outside the train. We wrapped up warm and set about breakfast and spent hours hunting down a lovely baige pair of walking shoes for kellie as hers were disintergrating with the snow but luckily for ...
Rainy day in Warsaw
After leaving our hostel in Krakow this morning, we got on a train to Warsaw. We picked the local train because then we didn't need a reservation and it was PACKED. we ended up sittin on the floor outside of a compartment made for 8 people with 6 guys ...
Kinga
After visiting Gdansk we went to Kinga's mother, Krystyna. Krystyna is a wonderful person, and it is easy to see where Kinga gets here love for travelling from. For those who don't know it yet : Kinga is a young Polish woman who has been ...
The bison of Białowieża
Getting used to Japanese trains is not good for setting expectations for Polish trains. Some sign language and a few train changes later we arrive in Bialowieza, a small town of 2000 people and 2 churches - Russian Orthodox and Catholic, ...
another collection!
I think I have another photo collection! If you are reading my blogs, you might remember that I am collecting tectonic plates, or rather photos of them and the ability to stand where two or more of them meet. I've done this now in Iceland and in ...
The Old Gentleman on the Bus
... rule. He lived through the decades of shortages and only in the end of his life was he seeing the wall come down and a different Poland emerge. I had enough time to wonder about the gentleman as we rode to the center of Warsaw. He got off the bus at the ...
Tourists in Turek
This morning we went back to another Art Fair, this time in an old converted brewery in the centre of Poznan. We are not pretending that we have suddenly become art experts, but it was very interesting and impressive. There was even a Polish gallery ...
Warsaw calling
Before leaving Turek we received a private concert from Ulisses. After that we left for Warsaw, and the trip went surprisingly fast, so we had some time to walk around town and eat a traditional Zapiekanka, a sandwich covered with mushrooms, cheese, ...
Destruction and Construction
... my purchase. Don’t know what it was except that it looked like a volcano and tasted yummy. Another bit of Poland eeriness, resulting from World War II destruction, is that 95% of people here are Polish, white, Polish speaking. ...
One day in Warsaw
... on the wings instead. Anyway, after the short hour long flight that I slept mostly through, I arrived in Warsaw, Poland. Unfortunatly the terminal with the luggage storage spot was under construction, so that plan went down the drain. I ...
Nachtmusik
... also royal tombs (not as creepy as I'd hoped) and I climbed up narrow stairs to the Sigismund Bell, the largest in Poland. To my surprise, the little restaurant across the courtyard was not an overpriced place with bland food. It was quite good and ...
Wawel Castle
... ; We also got some history of the kings and how they became elected officials from the aristocracy, of which there were a lot in Poland. That explains how Augustus II of Dresden was able to come in and get elected king. We’d heard his ...
Walking the Jewish Trails
... and tolerant king. While the rest of Europe were prosecuting Jews, King Kazimierz invited the Jews to come and live in Poland. He also granted special privilege to the Jews including commerce and trade. A city was even established for the Jewish ...
Zakopane
... 15 minutes later we were on the bus heading south to Zakopane. Zakopane sits at the base of the Tatra Mountains in Southern Poland. Mike said to expect something like a small Breckenridge; just a little more run down. Tiago asked us if the house that ...
Kazimierz Dolny
The aim of the trip was to bring my grandparents to a sanatory in Nałęczów, so I took a day off, called my brother and soon the seven of us were travelling south-east to see some stuff on our way. We stopped for lunch in Kazimierz Dolny, a ...
Week 10. Polish wedding: Changing beer for wódka.
... so insistent... the guy thought he was among freaks until he saw my face, and then helped me get away from there... Poland is a very Catholic country, but at the same time communism made everything a bit strange... and today there's a lot of ...
Getting to Warsaw
... reminds me of Scotland oddly enough. Also a bit unusual for the frequent British rail traveller to see that most of the land in Poland isn't actually doing anything - it's neither a town, a farm or someone's back garden - just lots of grass and trees. ...