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August 31, 2004An Ancestral VillageWe take local electric trains three hours north from Warsaw to Ostroda where we book into the Park Hotel on a lovely lake that caters to German-speaking tourists many...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 31, 2004 04:24 AM
TrackBack | Category: Hostels & Guesthouses, Poland, Politics August 30, 2004Who Would Have Thought...?Who would have thought that Poland in 1995 would have chosen the former communist bureaucrat, Aleksander Kwasniewski, over the former hero Lech Walesa, who, along with the Solidarity movement, led...Read this update August 29, 2004WarsawIn re-built Warsaw we view public art memorializing the Warsaw Uprising...Nazis destroyed the city while Russia watched on the other side of the Vistula River...then moved in and occupied...Read this update August 27, 2004Oswiecim PolandThe Germans changed the name to Auschwitz but the Polish still call it Oswiecim. We hire an English speaking guide to drive us to Auschwitz and Birkenau for the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 27, 2004 04:20 AM
TrackBack | Category: History, Poland, Reading, Seven Must See, UNESCO World Heritage Sites August 26, 2004Polish AncestorsI am looking forward to visiting my grandfather's little village in the north. Seven generations of his ancestors were farmers and lived in the same little village of Szczepankowo....Read this update August 24, 2004KrakowWe are out of the unusually hot and humid Czech Republic. After an all night train we are in cool Krakow Poland. We accept an offer by a young...Read this update August 23, 2004I'm A Gypsy?Back in Prague, doors open...a gypsy girl sits down beside me at a bus stop...flirting...wanting me to listen to lively music in her cell phone. I smile and she...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 23, 2004 04:12 AM
TrackBack | Category: Czech Republic, Minority Groups August 20, 2004Jazz in Cesky KrumlovIn Prague, we phone the Chinese embassy and they suggest coming for an interview after which they would allow a visa in one week's time to allow for the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 20, 2004 06:10 AM
TrackBack | Category: Czech Republic, Music, Visas August 18, 2004Young Prime MinisterThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Stanislav Gross, is 32 years old and looks 20! We are realizing how little information we have gotten in the US in...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 18, 2004 02:05 PM
TrackBack | Category: Climbs & Walks, Czech Republic, History, Politics, Reading August 13, 2004Ripped Off In PragueMy medications, that had gotten held up in Custums in Frankfurt, finally arrived in Berlin via fedex. We had planned on taking the train through Austria and Hungary but...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 13, 2004 02:20 AM
TrackBack | Category: Altercations, Czech Republic, Trains, Travel Tips August 06, 2004Former East BerlinWhen I was in Berlin in 1965 it had been 18 years since the end of WWII and Europe was still digging itself out of the ashes. Nearly 40 later, Europe is transformed and on it's way, through the European Union, to providing a balance of power to the United States.Read this update August 04, 2004No Chinese VisaToday we try to get our China visa but were refused because we weren't Germans. It was suggested by the Chinese embassy that we could get a visa in Hong...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 4, 2004 03:46 AM
TrackBack | Category: European Union, Germany, Visas August 02, 2004U-2 in BerlinComing up out of the U-2 line of the Zoo railway station and thinking of course of the Irish rock band we enter now-rich, Western, happening Berlin. We pore over...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on August 2, 2004 11:42 PM
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