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July 10, 2023
Life has not been easy for Poland; this beautiful and spirited country in the center of Europe has been invaded and destroyed many times over the centuries. Even the best cities in Poland have endured much. Poland is known for its success story in the post-communist era with its emergent resilience as a proud, independent […]
November 11, 2020
Poland. It’s one of the few countries in Central Europe that I had not visited. Gloomy images of tragedy, poverty, and food lines were all I knew. But I was wrong, so wrong. What I found was a county that boasts the sixth-largest economy in Europe and is one of the safest places to live […]
April 2, 2019
It wasn’t the typical “see the view” tower that I’d climbed in so many other Central European cities. Taking on the lofty turret in St. Mary’s church proved a worthy opponent. The massive 14th-century Gothic basilica is the largest brick ecclesiastical structure in the world, and the 400 timeworn spiral steps to the viewing platform […]
January 20, 2019
Careening through the backstreets of Warsaw in a minibus that bumped and jostled us through a former Communist neighborhood, I immediately regretted that extra pierogi I’d had for lunch that now threatened to expel itself. As if clairvoyant, Tomas, our guide, stopped and guided us into an area where partially destroyed, bullet-ridden brick structures were oddly […]
January 15, 2019
The wind whipped my ponytail across my new Polish sunglasses and into my mouth – which was open because I was laughing. In spite of the brooding sky and rapidly approaching cloud formations, I was at one of the Gdansk beaches. The beach. My happy place. Poland has something that most of the other land-locked […]
August 31, 2018
My friends are envious of my “glamorous” life. I love being a travel writer, and my life is certainly filled with fun and adventure, but it’s hardly glamorous. It’s often difficult. I’m currently on a one-month trip taking me through Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland. I’ve been on planes, trains, buses, vans, trams, cars, taxis […]