“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…
Category: Poland
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…
Poland – Nowy Sącz
“There is one thing I like about the Poles—their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ecstasy. The sound of the language evokes strange images in which there is always a greensward of fine spiked grass in which hornets and snakes play a great part.” Henry Miller Clear blue sky…