Country Info
- Warsaw
- Capital
- Zloty (PLN)
- Currency
- 38,633,912
- Population
- PL
- Country Code
Poland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Poland
Wroclaw
... had also called Zosia (a Polish lady who he worked with before leaving for the trip) to share that he was in Poland, although he had some trouble getting a line through to her (something about telemarketers calling around that time... heehhe Tony!!!) She ...
The City of Copernicus
... countless art galleries, restaurants and bars. It's worth mentioning at this stage that Toruń is one of the cheapest bigger cities of Poland, and there are pubs right in the Old Town, in which a pint of beer will cost you less than 1€. A ...
Warsaw town / Train to Zakopane
Nick and Iza feeling a bit better, so we head down to warsaw on the bus after some breakfast. Bus journey took about 40 minutes, we then walked around and had a look around some shops. We asked at the train station about reserving seats for the train ...
Capital of the Crusaders
... Knights back in the 13th century. The Teutonic Knights conquested lots of territories around central Europe including most of Northern Poland. The castle was badly damaged, however, during WWII and reconstructed over the years. Its was placed into the ...
Good bye Zlotys...
... in the world are!). I've spent my last zlotys on cherry-juice. It's amazingly delicious! I've never had this at home and don't even know if you can get this in Switzerland. So this would be a reason to come back to Poland, among many others of ...
Fall Break Take 2 - Krakow
... him spew in the hallway. It was nasty! Ahhhhh hostels .... Anyway, when we woke up on Thursday, winter had come to Poland. It was freaking freezing. Not to mention it was also raining. It was actually pretty fitting because had a day trip planned to ...
The Karkonosze Mountains
... joined again. The mountains were right on the border of the Czech republic, so there were trails from the Czech and from Poland, as well as chairlifts from the bottom, so suddenly there were a million people. The climb from there was only another half ...
Christmas at home!!!!
it's Monday, Dec 10th, today i've come back from South America, i'm gonna stay in Poland for 3weeks and then continue my trip to Asia and ...
Do not mention Ze war!
... ended up losing after 3 months before they were "liberated" in fall '44 by the Russians who then proceeded to keep Poland under Communist rule until around 1990. The Rising succeeded in demolishing most of Warsaw and killing tens of thousands of ...
Oswiecim
... has also been reconstructed or revitalized or revamped for it is now a UNESCO World Heritage site and also a big tourist draw for Poland. I wanted to visit because I am a believer in knowing the history that has come before so that we don’t make ...
Soporific Sopot
... a wonderfully chocolate restaurant for breakfast, determined from the hotel staff that there is no such thing as a coin Laundromat in Poland, and determined to just spend a lazy day by the seashore. ...
Wawel Castle (pronounce the W's as V's)
... .com/search.asp?a=q&kw=wawel+tapestry The story of the preservation of the tapestries is also interesting. After WWI, Poland restored Wawel Castle and founded the Textile Conservation Studio. Poland got the tapestries back from Russia, where they had ...
Vilnius-Warsaw by train
Got the 11.47am (which left at 11.45am!) train to Warsaw via Sestokai -30 min stop at the Lithuanian border, there were allocated seat numbers but this meant nothing, Lithuanian 2nd and only class was fine but stuffy. The second train was Polish and ...
Polish words I have learned
... = yes Lody = ice cream Gofry = waffle piwo = beer Now those are probably the only 4 that I will remember after leaving Poland until I return. Hopefully I will return because it is a beautiful country and very historic and now also very dynamic. A lot of ...
Trip to Bydgoszcz and stay at Vlad's
Early in the morning Dima had to go to work and I had to go in the opposite direction to Bydgoszcz. The journey was very pleasant (it didn't rain on that day… finally). Despite all my efforts to go as slow as possible and kill the time I arrived in ...
Poland Will Never Forget Nor Forgive
... one of these in 1944; the other three were blown up when the Germans evacuated the camp as the Russians advanced further into Poland. Despite this, it is still easy to make out the layout of what once stood there. The cold, remorseless and efficient way ...
Failed day trip to Auschwitz / Swimming
... bar again, before hurrying off to get the train to Auschwitz. We got there in good time, but the train had been cancelled, due to Poland enjoying making up train times and confusing us. We walked home and had an ice cream on the way to cheer us up. We ...
Family trip
I spent a brief 2 days with my family in Krakow.. Playing tour guide was defiantly interesting. It was nice seeing the city alive and bustling in the spring time.. A nice contrast to my previous two ...
Novus - show us your Krack
... city with lots to see and do, and from what we saw of the Polish countryside on the way to Auschwitz, southern Poland is very picturesque. Changing trains at Katowice we saw the side of Poland that we expected - a crumbling concrete station, ancient ...
Poland and thereabouts (so much booze and death)
Number 4 (4th August 2003 - 10th August 2003) Carried on through the same country where we finished, as we read that 95% of the people who visit it only go to the capital (r). We travelled south east to a new town stronghold (s) founded by the ...
Zakopane and the Tatra's
Greetings all.... We arrived in beautiful Zakopane in the extreme south of Poland today. The weather is fantastic and the town in small, quant and to our knowledge - not one other american is here...so it's pretty fun to be here. We are staying at a ...
SNOW!
... be honest, it was pretty tacky! Lots of junk and not really anything good for a real souvenir anywhere we visited in Poland. We were a bit disappointed about that! One awesome Polish thing that we unfortunately can’t bring home is this crazy looking ...
Krakow and Auschwitz
... (no currency... the Euro will be wonderful for tourists when everyone has it.) We crossed the border into Poland and were immediately charmed -- quaint country villages with lovely homes, old ladies riding bicycles in dresses, little girls walking ...
The Old Captial of Poland (dunno why it was moved)
This city was 50x nicer than Warsaw, with a more lively old city center and happier people. I don't think I saw anyone smile in Warsaw, and I think I saw half of the people smiling in Krakow. Since we only had half a day to wander about the city, we hit ...
Mam kuchnie (I have a kitchen!)
... named thus: Olimpia, Acropol and Babilon (!). One looks like it's being renovated. Today has been a grey, rainy day in Poland, quite appropriate to the mourning that the Poles are beginning for their president and many members of their government. I took ...
