Travelogues Poland

It was slowly time to head home. We left Gdansk early and had planned a few days for the trip back. Our stop today was supposed to be in Rowy, another seaside resort on the...

It was time for a big hike, and the destination was the Lontzkedune (Wydma Łącka). The well-marked trail led us through the forest of the Słowiński National Park. The distance...

On the seventeenth, we wanted to go to Leba. If we made it by two o'clock, we could still go to the Lontzkedune, one of the largest moving dunes in Europe, on the same day. The...

Tuesday was beach day. We walked along the spit between Lake Jamno and the Baltic Sea heading east, first by the inland lake, then along the sea. At the connecting canal between...

We had planned not to travel for Sunday, but to spend the day in one place. After all, it was a holiday, a weekend, and of course Sebb's birthday. Nearby, Ines had discovered a...

Raindrops drum on the roof and wake me from sweet dreams of streets where milk and Pilsner flow. We are standing at the Czech border.

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After my stay in Berlin, I spontaneously decided to see

Route: 106 kilometers, total: 2,866 kilometers | Elevation gain: 320 meters, total elevation: 10,350 meters, distance from home: 764 kilometers (as the crow flies) As hoped and...

Warsaw is a huge city, but also beautiful and impressive. It is the largest city in Poland and comparable to Vienna or Budapest. This city was not on my wish list until now....

Route: 77 kilometers, cumulative: 2,383 kilometers | Elevation: 330, cumulative elevation 8,510 meters, distance from home: 1,170 kilometers (as the crow flies) On my tour...

In 2025, we are starting our trip for two in the Dukla region. First, the Dukla pub and the Flying Plates concert in an intimate setting. Then we will sleep in our 'camper';...

We, a young family from Berlin, love to travel. This year we spent the days between the holidays in beautiful Misdroy on the Polish Baltic Sea at the Bel Mare Resort. We can...

We explored the Tri-City and wandered through the beautiful streets of Gdansk.

A great place to reflect on the history of World War II from a non-Western perspective.

After the mandatory part of the journey, now for the enjoyable part. We had finished the Baltic Sea Cycle Route yesterday in Świnoujście. For the remaining two days, we decided...

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Krakow is the old town, not destroyed in the war, 1000 years of Polish history, connections to Germany, the largest market place in Europe, the secret capital of Poland, a young...

Addendum to yesterday: if you obviously don't like 22 soporific minutes of preaching on the Sunday Gospel, I would recommend Father Klaus's impulse:...

An addendum to yesterday: when preparing for the trip, the "Bober National Park" in front of Jelenia Gora, including its cycle path, was highly praised and the Komoot map also...

Who hasn't heard the call (with an echo) "Snieeeeekoppe...!" in advertisements for healthy stuff (at least among the over-50s generation?). The Sniezekoppe is the highest peak...

1st stage of the Northern Journey: Bad Gleichenberg - Katowice

Hel Peninsula, Hela, also called the Putziger Spit and yet actually just a sandbank

A journey through Masuria without touching water.

Sun. 08/20/2023 We didn't spend that much time in Poland either. On the first day we drove over 4 hours north to Sztutowo (Stutthof) and visited the Stutthof concentration camp...

Von Wroclav Breslau ins Riesengebirge

Star of the Sea", is a title of the Virgin Mary as the patron saint of seafarers. I had my dinner, filled pierogi with fish, in a restaurant on the main street, while a few...

Gdańsk in the conditional. At this point, a jumbled post could follow: Middle Ages, Hanseatic League, Teutonic Order, Kingdom of Poland, Prussia, Free City, World War II,...

My visit to Warsaw was primarily because of the weekend, after all, a city of a million has more to offer than, for example, Vilnius or Gdansk. I already visited Warsaw in 2005....

Seven hours on a train. I can think of better things. But I was excited because my couchsurfing host, Christina, sounded super nice, was very accommodating, and even offered to...