Poland

Flash Bangs and BT

Posted by on 11, Aug 2012 in 2012 - The Last Dictator Tour (Belarus & Russia), Poland | 0 comments

Flash Bangs and BT

The rebuilt centre of Warsaw Warsaw, waiting for ‘W’ hour. I’m not the worlds biggest fan of dogs and when they bark all night long I’d happily shoot the little darlings, of course when you’re thinking this you never in a month of Sundays expect to actually be given a gun to carry out the evil deed, so I was heartily relieved that when this scenario raised its ugly canine shaped head on our first night in Poland and it was Mike who was handed a Glock 10 pistol and not me! Its the last thing you expect really, asked if we slept well by the camp site owners Mike and Ali said the dogs had been...

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Gdansk

Posted by on 30, Aug 2010 in 2010 - The Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Europe, Poland | 0 comments

Gdansk

What a beautiful city! And as usual, we turn up in the middle of the annual street fair which added to the atmosphere but rather hid the magnificant buildings. We stayed at a campsite just up the coast arriving mid afternoon and decided to cycle in to the city. Perhaps not the best idea as it was Lindas first cycle since her back problems and it was also 16km away. It was however a lovely ride all on dedicated cycle paths through leafy suburbs and showed us how prosperous this part of Poland is – best get your plumber in now as I can’t see them staying in Britain much longer! The...

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It’s unusually hot for the time of year!

Posted by on 18, Aug 2010 in 2010 - The Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Europe, Poland | 0 comments

It’s unusually hot for the time of year!

Now we are back in the EU we’ve spent a bit of time catching up with our families and have learned that the weather hasn’t been the best back in the UK. Well, you’d all better brave yourselves as we will be home in a few weeks and with us the heatwave and an Indian summer will arrive! Since we left Turkey the first time every place we have visited has been exceptionally hot. People have told us so many times “Its unusually hot for the time of year” that we’ve lost count! And, when we’ve left an area we’ve checked the weather forecast and it has...

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