Walks and hikes in Poland
Wroclaw may be a great place for mysteries if you are into that sort of thing, but one thing is certain: it is surely a great place to go dwarf hunting. Just walk around – and when you see one, or better: two, perhaps even three – … … walk over and shoot. That’s how…
Do you like to uncover mysteries? To search for hidden truths? To scratch the veneer of appearances to see what has so carefully been concealed from you? f the answer to that is yes, then the Polish city of Wroclaw is the perfect destination for you. Over there, in the German-Polish borderlands, you will find…
The Holocaust was the crime of the 20th century, but even within this bloodstained frame, the extinction of Poland’s and Warsaw’s Jews stands out for its exceptional cruelty: these people – who had done nobody any harm – were imprisoned, starved and told lies about their future while the infrastructure for their murder was being…
There are few cities in Europe that look as new as Warsaw. There are few cities in Europe that are as new as Warsaw. The Polish capital may look back on one thousand years of history, but you would be hard-pressed to find a building in town that was not built (or entirely rebuilt) after…
Half-German-half-Polish Usedom is used to playing second fiddle among Germany’s Baltic coast islands, but has a unique distinction Usedom is Germany’s sunniest spot. Talk about damning with faint praise, eh? But before any of you can accuse me of sneery sarcasm, let me point out that Usedom gets an almost Mediterranean 1917 hours of sunshine…
Break within a break Borders within the European Union may have become largely symbolic, scars of ancient conflicts, but there are also places where the underlying wounds are relatively fresh. When you are crossing European borders for a “break within a break”, you should not expect to see a sudden and dramatic change of scenery….