Photos of my trip to Lublin, Zamosc, Skierbieszow, Bug River and Ukrainian border --- I crossed about 50 metres into it on Easter Sunday --- Electric fence stopped me going further!!!!
My time in Czestochowa and Jasna Gore with Oxford Graduate Robbo and Irenna on Sunday 29th May 2005. Again, it was HOT!!! Over 30 degrees celsius, which is really hot for Poland
Photos of gorgeous Zakopane, in the Tatra mountains, near the Slovakian border, taken during my visit there from Saturday 25th June to Tuesday 28th June 2005. Many Photos are taken right on the border. Look for the half metre high white border marker
Photos from my first day in Poland. I caught the Berlin-Warszawa Express Train from Berlin on Monday 6th Sept 2004 at 12:30pm, and arrived in Warsaw 6 hours later. The LAST photo I took about 200km west of Warsaw looks like a UFO! What do you think?
Radom was the town in Poland that I was based in. It is 100 Km south of Warsaw. Many Radomites kept asking me "why radom???", meaning why didn't you choose a beautiful city like Krakow, Gdansk, Zakopane, Wroclaw etc. It is a town with a major image problem with 30% unemployment, but nevertheless I had a great time there as can clearly be seen in these xmas new year photos and later I appeared in the local gazetta and on local radio. It also had a pub with a great atmosphere called "Nasza Szkapa (Nasha Shkarpa)"--the publican Janeusz was a big factor in giving it a great atmosphere and even people who have been to the more attractive cities in Poland admit that they have not found a pub with the same atmosphere. So, I certainly cannot say that I hated Radom. I had a great time there with both the other foreign teachers and Polish people there. For example, the assembling of the xmas tree was done at Radek's flat --- a great Polish friend of mine with two foreign teachers: Barbara from Australia and Irenna from Scotland.
Beautiful Kazimierz Dolny (the little Krakow about 150Km south of Warsaw) on the Vistula River (Poland's longest river which virtually runs the full length of Poland from south to north). The photos were taken in February and June 2005, ie in winter and summer. It is interesting to compare the photos from the contrasting seasons.
