It is warm summer now in my Wojtkówka and i live in my dacha enjoying flowers around and fresh vegetables for the meals Today I have a pleasure to host my old friends: Wlodek and Christina. We know each other since our student’s days. It was so nice to see them again, to chat and […]
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Listening to the lovely Chopin’s tunes…
Every July in Old Gdansk local authorities organize concert series “Chopin by the waters of the Motława River” Pianists from different countries are playing at sunset in the foyer of our philharmonic hall, with the nice view of the river and old town buildings. This creates very special atmosphere. My faithful and reliable friends Ela […]
From Malaga to Gdansk
I met them years ago on the cruise ship crossing Atlantic Ocean. They were listening to my travel stories sipping the wine. Later, visiting Malaga, usually by ship I was happy to meet them and spend the time together. They were showing me new places of interest around Malaga… Today they came for the first […]
Friends since 1979…
I met Piotr by excident in the little hostel in Gabes, Tunisia on 1979. Both of us were travelling solo North Africa. Since then we are in touch, meeting each other mostly at annual meetings of Polish Travellers. Piotr is MD by profession, but he is also outstanding traveller and writer. He was already several […]
Unexpected visitor
It was sunny afternoon in Wojtkówka and I was working in the garden when a unexpected person appeared at the gate. This was Artur – Polish traveller. I did not invite him and he did not announce his arrival. I know Artur since many years, he is great traveller – long time ago we even […]
Traveller from Florida!
from time to time I am giving lectures about my arventures around the world and exotic places and countries. Few years ago in Lubin/South Poland after such a lecture one of the listeners approached me asking if he can join me on my expedition. We tried to travel together to the Pacific just before COVID […]
Friends from Australia
Crossing the Pacific earlier this year I had a pleasure to meet on the ship traveller’s couple from Australia. They were heaading to Europe. And today It was nice to meet them again in Gdańsk: It is their first time in Gdańsk, so it was a pleasure to guide them around the old city in […]
In my Wojtkówka…
I am happy to be back home. Wonderful spring is around. Fresh green, flowers and trees in blossom: Nights are still too cold to stay there overnight, but since a lot of work is waiting for me I am spending there most of the day. I enjoy last tulips and blue forget-me-not My son Adam […]
Piraeus – what the Greeks invented!
Our Costa ship is back in Piraeus port. I will be disembarking soon. But… In the ancient times Greeks invented many very useful things. Today they invented a new tax for the cruise passengers. Every time you willbe disembarking the ship in Greece you will pay a tax: 3 euro on the continent, but 12 […]
Windy Santorini
This is very unusual destination. One of two volcanic calderas where shops can sail into former volcano cone. The second one where I have been twice is Deception Island in the Antarctic. on Santorini settlements are not located on the level of the water, but up – on the rim of the former crater. It […]