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Our travels

Olsztyn - cognitive and cultural

Whether it was the considerable distance from Szczecin or the not very convenient rail connection that made Olsztyn seem to be beyond our "reach". We are making up for the lack of knowledge about this city and are going there for a spring reconnaissance.
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Lodz - culturally and cognitively

The time has come for Łódź. A large, yet little-known city. We are curious about the impressions we will get from looking at the cultural offer of this city and its young history of architectural monuments.
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Szczecin culturally and sentimentally

Time for cultural Szczecin. Today - The Opera at the Castle in Szczecin, which organized a concert to celebrate the end of the Year of Jacek Nieżychowski - the creator of the Szczecin Operetta which gave birth to the Musical Theatre and, in time, the Opera at the Castle.
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Warszawa - the cultural way

At the end of 2025 - a five-day trip to Warsaw to soak up the cultural events that the capital has to offer. So there will be theater performances, museums and art galleries (and shopping galleries too).
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Polish seacoast

According to data from the Central Statistical Office from March 30, 2023, Kołobrzeg had 43,680 inhabitants and was the fourth largest city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in terms of population (after Szczecin, Koszalin and Stargard), as well as the 95th most populated city in Poland.
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Greece revisited

Greece has thousands of islands, but this one has a special history and unique charm. Santorini stimulates the imagination and even crowds of tourists do not prevent us from admiring this place on earth.
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Turkey (Turkiye) - Side

Turkey (Tur. Türkiye), Republic of Turkey (Tur. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) - a country located in Western Asia on the Asia Minor peninsula, and partly also in Southeastern Europe, with its capital in Ankara. Population 83,000,000! Side – a city in southern Turkey. There is a sea swimming area and a touri...
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Sri Lanka

A different look and a different approach to getting to know the country.
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Sri Lanka

The name of the country Sri Lanka, adopted in 1972 (formerly Ceylon), means "resplendent country" in Sanskrit. The current name is a modern adaptation of the name found in the Ramayana, where the island is known as Lanka. Once there, we'll see what this country has to offer to enchant us...
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Cyprus

After being in Crete, we want to see the third (largest) Mediterranean island.   We have expectations...
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Greece - Crete

Crete is not only beaches, but many, many more attractions for which it is worth going there in the off-season and visiting this island without crowds of tourists. And the years still go on here!
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Greifswald

Czy zdążymy w ciągu jednego dnia obejrzeć poniższe zabytki? Ratusz – pierwotnie gotycki, obecnie w barokowej formie, którą uzyskał w XVIII wieku Ruiny cysterskiego Klasztoru Eldena, w którym pochowano królewnę polską Annę Jagiellonkę (córkę Kazimierza Jagiellończyka) Katedra św. Mikołaja  Kośció...
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Dziwnów by the Baltic Sea

To find out why Dziwna (The Strange) is not a river, and where its "strange" name comes from, you can read on the Internet. But you can also go to Dziwnów and look at this water, which actually is ... a strait! So, let's go there and find out for you more about this phenomenon. What do you think m...
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Ińsko Summer Fil Festival

You can go to Cannes, you can go to Venice, you can go to Kazimierz Dolny - great film festivals take place there everywhere! This time we are going to Ińsko, because it is closer and more patriotic, because we support cultural events in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Ińsko Summer Film Festival ...
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By the sea on the Polish middle coast

High summer. But only in the calendar, as the weather is not very inspiring for relaxing on the beach ... Undaunted by the forecast for the coming weekend, we are going to visit seaside towns near Koszalin and Słupsk.
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Bicycle long weekend on the Uznam island

The long weekend in June gives everyone an impetus to do something more original than their own barbecue in the garden or the smell of those of your neighbours'. We are off to the German part of the USEDOM island to explore the local bicycle TRAOLS. Come with us! Hopefully, I will be able to show ...
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Sicily - Italy

Sicily (Italian: Sicilia) - the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (over 25 thousand km²), from the Apennine Peninsula, it is separated from it by the narrow Strait of Messina. It is separated from the south by the Strait of Malta from Malta.   The Latin name Sicilia comes from the...
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SZCZECIN POLAND

Out of need to mark the importance of this date, the people of Szczecin gathered at Wały Chrobrego to celebrate the 18th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union. I t was youthful and cheerful despite the fairly high average age of the participants,
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The Czech Republic - Praque

Prague or Praha? We'll find out on the spot! Mariusz Szczygieł – a Czechophile - writes: "Everyone who goes to Prague in April, May, June, July, August and December ... Everyone who visits the Charles Bridge, Hradčany and Staromiejski Square ... Everyone who enters the restaurant in the center .....
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Paris

There are many reasons why people travel to Paris. Motivations for a trip to this capital city could be counted endlessly.   I have mine: I follow periodic exhibitions of paintings by great masters that are held in galleries around the world.   In the 1990s, a unique exhibition...
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Polish film in the Castle

The Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin plays a significant role in the city as a place of cultural events. There is an opera and a cinema ...
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Modern Ballet at the Opera

(...) Wszyscy znamy te teksty, jest w nich taka siła, moc. Utwór Dziwny jest ten świat, w którym mowa o tym, jak człowiekiem gardzi człowiek, można uznać jako kwintesencję tego, co obserwujemy na świecie (…) Chciałbym, żeby wszystko skończyło się dobrze. Taką też mam nadzieję. Że wyjdziemy kiedyś z ...
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An Opera night in Szczecin

Carmen - there is probably no opera in the world that evokes more associations, an echo of which everyone can hear, at least in the sphere of European culture. The story of a great, free woman at the time of its inception aroused opposition; the idea that the main character should be an ordinary gyp...
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Cultural journey through the theaters

Exactly. This is not a journey through the physical world. It is a journey through the cultural world. Trough Polish and foreign theaters. It is an annual Festival - Review of Small Form of Theaters KONTRAPUNKT from Poland, Belgium, Germany, Spain and ... Iran. I invite you to short reports (not...
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Spain

Summer is coming to an end, and we have no plans to travel to "warm countries". Several of our friends warmed up their bones in Egypt, on the island of Kos, in Sicily, in Croatia…. And we, in increasingly colder Szczecin, can only dream of travelling! And suddenly! A phone call from Madrid. Our Sp...
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Rozalinowo in Kujawsko-pomorskie

A few weeks ago, we received an invitation to the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Darek and Marek's relationship. They have been our friends for years. The special meaning of our friendship lies in the fact that our relationship with Adrian dates back to February 2000, and we made the decisi...
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Off we go into Poland!

The pandemic, pandemic, pandemic. The coronavirus, coronavirus. COVID -19. The vaccinations… This is what has been occupying our minds and bodies since the beginning of 2020. After returning from Mexico and Spain at the beginning of March 2020, the "lockdown" was imposed just five days later. I do...
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Mexico City

We're going to Mexico on a special invitation! Everything that will meet us there will be a great surprise. So, all this will be in the coming entries. This is our another trip to the country, where we have a lot of friends and acquaintances ...
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Christmas 2019

Between our travel entries  there are the ones that look more like a diary/journal raathen than a tourist/traveler's blog. I do this to fulfill the requests of the Readers who, waiting for the next "sensations" from the world, want news from our home yard. I hope that I'm not boring writing about ...
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Tunisia

Just before Christmas, weneed to calm our nerves affected by the party's president's illness and breathe the warm air of northern Africa. The Internet has helped find an interesting proposition of a German travel agency, and well, we'll fly off for a few days. This time we chose lazy "all inclusiv...
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Over the ocean

Our trips to Asia and longer and shorter stays there have caused that our favourite city - New York - was moved to the background. We hope that New York also have missed us (last we were there in 2014, despite promises to travel there every two years). This two-week stay will be a total "spontanei...
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Into Poland

A ten-day trip to Kazimierz Dolny. The annual film festival "Dwa Brzegi" promises to be exciting. We welcome you to our everyday entries...
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To Polad. For how long?n

This is not a trip to Poland. It is a return to a country that probably is not waiting for us. The better sort ... Our families and friends are waiting for us, though. Our house in Wisełka in Wolin is waiting for us. And we are looking forward tosee it after such a long time!
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To Cambodia for a longer stay

The decision has been made! This time we're going to Cambodia for s longer time. We decided to spend at least six months each year in Kampot. There are several reasons: Winters in Poland are definitely too long. Television cannot be watched. The political situation in the country is not optimis...
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Cambodia 2018

In Asia for a longer stay ... There are several reasons why you should be here at this time of year: the distance from the current affairs in our country, great weather, smiling people and the feeling that it is a holiday. This time it we chose Cambodia. This is our next, probably the third, trip...
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Oman

Why do we want to go to Oman and stay in the Arab culture, although we do not particularly like the countries where Islam dominates with its fundamentalist principles? Maybe that's why. Maybe just to cut off ourselves from stereotypical thinking about the Middle East and look closer into  the coun...
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Warsaw New Year's celebartions

This entry will be a bit  unusual: a trip to Warszawa. The  trip to the capital city is entered to the blog for several reasons.  We want to: - save it permanently in our memory, - share with our friends the  experiences and impressions. - stress the importance of the events.   We hope that eve...
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Cambodia 2016

Cambodia, as you yet don't know it..... This is what was promised by a Polish guy - Pawel - the owner of the Phnom Da Travel Agency. We are going to write about it al, soon.  
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Myanmar 2016

This is another, the fifth trip to Myanmar. It will be very different from the previous ones for two reasons: First: National League for Democracy, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi  in the parliamentary elections in May 2015, won more than 80 percent of the votes in the country....
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Mallorca, Balearic Islands 2015/16

Decisions taken at the last minute are not always the best. But sometimes they are very good. And this one was a trip to Mallorca. New Year's Eve on the beach! Tempting, isn't it? This way we are getting away from the big issues of our motherland's for a short time (the Facebook will not allow us th...
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Paris fall 2015

 Paris, Paris, Paris ... You can never get enough of this city. Though it may seem that we have seen everything, looked around everywhere, taken pictures of all the places,  the city will be rediscovered again and again, will enjoy  the eyes, mind and heart, every time you go there... Since we can...
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Canada fall 2015

Canada - the younger sister of the United States - remains one of the largest countries, in terms of the area, of the world.  It is worth seeing this constitutional monarchy with its liberal society,  from the inside. The family connections let us  start the country sightseeing from the administra...
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London 2015

Too rarely do we go to London. Too rarely do  we load the batteries of our intellect and culture in London offering a variety of activities for everyone willing. This time we were lucky to be in Tate Modern at the right time. Have a look at our entries where we express our admiration for unusual id...
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Burma (Myanmar) 2015 (via Bangkok)

A year ago we decided to visit the part of Burma (Myanmar) which does not get  many so called ordinary tourists. We will therefore become real  travellers, as defined by one of our readers - critics. We are going to the state of Chin in the north-west part of the country - near the border with Ind...
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Rome, 2015

Roma Caput Mundi (Rome, the head (capital) of the world). Or if you like it: Omnes viae Romam ducunt (Every Road Leads to Rome). We were in Rome a few times before, but we have not yet had an opportunity to see the city in the company of someone who knows everything about Rome. Absolutely everythin...
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Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, 2014/15

Why do tourists go to  Canary Islands? Surely, everyone have their answer own and. And everyone is right. We are not interested in beaching, frying, and dipping in the hotel pool. But in prawning, wining and beering, a little bit more. We did all the turist attractions of the island of Gran Canar...
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New York City 2014

Another trip to New York had three objectives: - meeting up friends with whom we have known since the beginning of the world (or even longer - Poles! Poles!), - meeting up with friends, we have known for a little shorter time - since our last trip to Morocco (an Argentinian and American), - a vis...
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Morocco via Barcelona

Morocco is a Muslim country, so Easter is not celebrated here. There is nothing, however, in the way to visit this magical, oriental region during the festive season. This is a great place to meet our friends and acquaintances from all over the world, of which only some are Christians. We all dream...
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Tajlandia & Birma (Myanmar) 2014

Burma, or Myanmar as it is now, according to the ruling power, is called the country, attracts with its beauty. We can say that it makes you addicted. We got addicted for good. This is our third trip and seemingly not the last one. This time we are going to visit the south-east part of the cou...
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Israel 2013/2014

Israel - the only country in the Middle East - which fancies considering itself as a European country, attracts tourists precisely because it is a melting pot of nationalities and has a unique atmosphere of the East. Tel Aviv – a bustling, cosmopolitan city has all the characteristics of a metropol...
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Burma (Myanmar) 2013

Our longtime friend, a Canadian who has spent most of his life outside the home country and toured the world, warned us a few years ago when we were planning our first trip to South East Asia: »Once you stay a little bit in that part of the world, "get the taste" of that culture, feel the way touris...
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Brasil 2013

The decision of taking up a ten days’ trip to Rio de Janeiro was made in late spring during a relaxed and slightly boozed dinner with our Warsaw's friends - regular Brazil tourists, and forever in love with Rio. The proposal of sunbathing during a grey Polish autumn couldn’t be denied. We're go...
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Thailand and Cambodia 2013

On the road again. Again, we would like to welcome you to the website "Blog traveler." This time we invite you to join us on another trip to Southeast Asia which won our sympathy sime time ago and we can barely imagine a year in which we would not be there, in one of the countries. This time, Cam...
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Around the World 2011 - 2012

Now or never?! We're going to meet the World and Friends of wherever they are waiting for us. There are coming 23 take-offs and we hope that there will be as many landings!
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Thailand 2010/2011

Enough of Europe! We are tired with being treated unfreindly - as tourists - by the indiferent countries of the Old Continent. There they want from us only one thing - money! Giving little in return. Time to meet another country, one in whose name there is freedom, and a national trait of its peopl...
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