“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” George Orwell Friday Our last day in Poland as we push north in search for cool weather. Destination – Kulautuva, Lithuania. It is a buffet breakfast which means we skip lunch. As someone who eats enough for two, and I need to eat enough…
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The Road To Wyszków
“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.’‘Where we going, man?’‘I don’t know but we gotta go.” Jack Kerouac Thursday A day of driving. No fancy breakfast. We strike out northeast for Lublin in search of coffee and lunch. A four hour trip avoiding freeways and tolls. We meander through forests…
Finding Kraków
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand” Italo Calvino A good night’s sleep. We are up early to explore the city and hunt down a decent breakfast. Most cities in Poland were destroyed during World War II. Kraków was one of the few to remain…
Kraków – Poland
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” Sylvia Plath I awake to the sound of birdsong and the fast running brook under our window. There are no sounds outside of nature. My only complaint is that the sun rises…
Zázrivá – Slovakia
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ” William S. Burroughs You need to be prepared to change your plans. Our initial plan was to explore Romania, but more heat is heading our way. With highs of 37…
Magyar Nemzeti Galéia
“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” Oscar Wilde I wake up with a hangover. Thankfully I drank last night so the…
Arrivals – Budapest
Saturday “I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” Sylvia Plath There is nothing enjoyable about a night flight. The only…
Departures – Budapest
“It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning” Albert Camus Another blue sky. I watch the sun hit Szabadság tér. A symbol of…
The Last Night In Budapest
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only – still, I left.” Mihail Drumeş We are up early and there is a deliberate lethargy to our actions that has nothing to do with tiredness and everything to do with a reluctance to leave. Breakfast is not until 8.00…