The Polish capital wasn't particularly welcoming when I spent most of a week there a few summers back - mostly because Poland obviously hadn't figured out it was summer, and it drizzled the whole time, despite the heat wave that was killing pensioners in not-that-far-away France. Just the same, I …
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T-shirt travel: Poland’s southern mountain town, Zakopane
I'm going Poland mad this month - just watch me tell you all about my favourite parts of Poland. This T-shirt shows one of them: Zakopane, a small town in the High Tatra mountains on the southern border with Slovakia.En-route to Bratislava to start my teaching job, I spent a couple of summery days …
Passport pirouette: Waiting for a Polish visa
Back when I did my longest stint of travelling throughout Eastern Europe, it was just before any of the countries joined the European Union, and thus it was still while Australians required visas to enter many countries - Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic among them.When I first left Russia for …