Vivaldi Hotel Poznan

... menu indicated. Soup had gone from 9 zloties on the menu to 15 on the bill. When I asked, the said that the English version did not have the latest prices. The Polish version did have the higher prices but this demonstrates the mom & pop nature of many of the restaurants.

I had heard about an excellent Jazz band at Blue Notes, a local club. It starts at 8:30 so I feel like it would be worthwhile despite my cold. Some great music ...

... in Poland and in other parts of Eastern Europe are exceptionally ugly. If all I did was look out the window when the trains stopped, I would just move on. Luckily, these are not at all a reflection of the towns.

Poznan is like a smaller scale version of Wroclaw. Just like Wroclaw, it is fascinating to walk around the old town. The Old Town Hall is beautiful. It is now a museum which is well worth visiting, especially for the ...

... improve my status as a super-wanderer among my alley-cat - bicycle messenger in Amsterdam speak - amigos back home. Not really the way I see it though...just enjoy being in motion, enjoy experiencing new emotions, discovering the newness of things, meeting new people - not all of them nice but then neither am I.

New cultures and traditions change the moment I cross the border!! Not like the inside of an Amsterdam ...

... with hindsight I'm stuggling to remember Poznan...


I remember the train journey (I up-graded to first class and had a pleasant conversation with a Polish man in his 50's about globalisation and how the euros (as a currency) will be the downfall of eastern europe and I remember my hostel, partly b/c it tooks ages to get there, when I did get there it ...

... Hall
- Kornik Library
- Fantastic boat trip on the lake, 5 minutes from the castle

There are buses from Pozna to Kornik - the journey takes about half an hour.

To see photos from Kornik please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =tDNs-T2YWM8

... or Indian Restaurant which has good pretty good food. In 2008 they were building a huge shopping mall just opposite the Lake...it might be there now.

Nice place to eat, read and spend some time is a shopping mall in the town called 'Stary Browar' - walking distance from the Old Town.

To see photos from Poland please click here:
http://reiki-healing-touch.com /photos/Poland/

After a fantastic couple of days in Stockholm, we boarded our flight at the tiny Vasteras airport and arrived back in Poland mid afternoon. The blue skies and bright sunshine in Sweden were blocked by heavy cloud cover here, giving the place much less of an appealing feel to it. Deciding against spending the night, we instead hit the square for a few hours, in order to grab a ...

... I, Boleslaus the Brave, was crowned king in 1025 and the Kingdom of Poland was formed. Poznań's cathedral is the oldest in the country, containing the tombs of the first Polish rulers.

Poznań has The Royal-Imperial Route in Poznań — a tourist walk running through the most important parts of the city showing the history, culture and identity of the city. Wonderful Old Town with interesting ...

... and more importantly have no idea on how to pronounce the names of the places. So after walking around for at least an hour with my heavy bags on looking for a pay-phone (this was the best time of the year I think), I finally found one and dialled the number - no answer. I tried again, same result. I started to get worried that I had the wrong number or something like that and so I went looking for a net café. I walked around for another 30 minutes unsuccessfully until I came to ...

... natalia und suzanna tun mir leid! jetzt gehen wir sicher noch in den pub, morgen geh ich mit zu einer birthday party. also alles lustig, auch dass ich gleich bei meiner schwester meine zahnbuerste und sonst alles mit hygiene vergessen hab...also gleich alles neu gekauft :-) und auf den photos ist das auto, bei dem ich hinten drin sass, echt rostig... bis bald euer maddin