Magiczne Miasta: Charmed By Poland’s Stary Ryneks, Old Town Squares “Before you take my heart , reconsider” – Texas. I get charmed by Polish Old Town squares. Stary Ryneks! Oldy TSes! First it was Warszawa back in 2005. It took me ten years to triple it, when I calmly touristically smuggled Poznań and Kraków into Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Charmed By Poland’s Stary Ryneks, Old Town Squares[…]
“Walking through this changing season, sorrow spreads its wings. We can’t keep a hold on time, just receive what it will bring” – Tim Wheeler. The little town of Wałcz is not a place I’d ever planned to backpack through. It’s relatively obscure and unknown to foreign tourists. However, after my adult life record gap Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Waltzing Through Wałcz, Western Pomerania[…]
“These sacred moments of silliness are where I find my heaven” – Gigolo Aunts. The fact that the unknown (to me, at least) town of Radymno was almost an anagram of the English word “random” was a perfect fit, in fact it exactly rhymes with ‘randomy’ if we use the word as an adjective! This Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Randomly in Radymno, The Best Sights[…]
“You’re upside down; I’m in the air” – Rapid Eye Movement. Travel blogs blur into one eventually and we get bored of the same old places being hyped and written about. You know how it goes – it’s the 80-20 rule as always. 20% of Poland’s cities attract 80% of travel blog articles – we Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Ten Of The Best Places in Poland You Never Heard Of[…]
“Ooh baby baby it’s a wild world. It’s hard to get by, just upon a smile; girl” – Cat Stevens. After my 165 country bandwagon tour rolled to a halt in pretty Poland, it has become an obsession to visit the less touristic parts of the country. What does that mean? I get really fed Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Top 14 Sights in Wonderful Włocławek[…]
“Someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide; in a champagne supernova in the sky” – Noel Gallagher. When I first arrived in Warszawa in 2005, I was on a train from Berlin, it didn’t feel like anything special that day. It wasn’t going to change my life….I was wrong. I was holding a Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Włocławek Was 70 Not Out – I Have Visited 70 Places in Poland[…]
“Open up the window and jump into the blue” – Ian Brodie. I’m not going to be over the top anymore. I’ve done my time as a travel writer that it bore myself into effortless droll. Anyone and their idiot’s backpack can whack out a “top 5 sights in a generic city” and get fake Read more about Magiczne Miasto: Touring The Historic UNESCO City of Toruń[…]
It was an absolute delight to be invited to the town of Koscian for a charity football tournament in December 2017. Sometimes I pinched myself to check if this was really happening. But it was, it was game on, perhaps my series “Śmieszne Historie o Piłce Nożnej w Polsce” had some kind of purpose in Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Backpacking in Kościan by Night[…]
“It’s all too beautiful” – The Small Faces. “Where is Zalipie?” Was a common question from even my Polish friends. Nobody knew what or where it was, but thanks to two travel blog articles I had read, I included this place in my Reader Vote for October 2017, unaware it would actually win the vote Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Touring the Beautiful Flower🌸🌹 🪷 🌻 🌷 🌼 💮 🏵️Covered Village of Zalipie[…]
“We got stars directing our fate, and we’re praying it’s not too late, because we know we’re falling from grace, Gdynia” – Robbiego Williamowski. Well my friends, it was a long and emotional return to the city of Gdynia in July 2017. You’ll hear it again, but Gdynia changed my life. I still cannot quite Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Backpacking in Gdynia, Textbook Top 6 Sights[…]