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Bel-Ami Zakopane

ul Goszczynskiego 24 Zakopane, Southern Poland, 34-500, Poland

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The 2nd Wedding

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... on surprising us with a gift, the best option is to send it by mail after the wedding. Later is better. The Danish post office will only hold our packages for 15 days and we don't plan on returning directly to Denmark after the wedding. On the other hand, if you try to send it from outside of Europe - we may have to pay a very ...

Up,and down, down, down

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... br> The border to Slovakia is at the peak, and the trail we will be taking follows it along the next several peaks. There’s a pile of rocks at one of the peaks and I build a small Inukshuk to leave a Canadian mark. Dark clouds start to come in and thunder can be heard in the distance. We wait in the rain below a peak for it to move on. It’s then a couple ...

Kasprowy Wierch

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... was visible.

The last few tens of metres to the top were exhausting. We had been climbing for four hours and drunk three 1.5l bottles of water and iced tea in the process. Every muscle was aching. I was also bright red with what I assumed, at the time, was exertion, and later discovered was sunburn. The true summit is another 40 minutes from the cable car station and cafe. We wimped out. As far as I am concerned, we climbed the mountain - all 1987m of it, more or ...

4th of July in the Tatras Mountains

A travel blog entry by pdchapla

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... to my ancestral homeland as I could.

Our hotel in Zakopane was the nicest one we have seen in Poland.  We were all in rooms on the third floor, walked out onto the balconies, and marveled at the view of the Tatras mountains, most of which are in the range of 2000 meters or higher.  If you remember “The Sound of Music” movie starring Julie Andrews and the singing Von Trapp family, you would have some idea ...

Up to the Five Polish Lakes

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... and we turned right and started to follow the trail up Dolina Roztoki. At first we climbed quite steeply, but mostly the trail was well-graded. It followed the river for the most part, and it was lovely and shaded so that walking was very pleasant. Soon we climbed out of the forest and came to Siklawa, a series of falls with pretty pools. Surprisingly enough the falls had a fair bit of water coming over them. Our trail climbed up beside them ...