Lara and I travelled from the port at Rostock to Berlin, where we went to see the Reichstag and the Brandenburg gate as well as a piece of the Berlin wall. From Berlin, we travelled into Poland, staying in Poznan. Here I am pictured in the old town in Poznan, which was really pretty. [View Full Entry]

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Proletaryat's trendy days are past, but it still has a kitschy, low-key charm. Decorated with Soviet relics, the vodka is displayed in vintage bottles. Polish pop music, circa pre-capitalism, adds to the ambiance. We had a swinging time there with Mr. Lederhosen during his visit. [View Full Entry]

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My friend Grant (Mr. Lederhosen) from Australia and the Global Gathering festival both rolled into town on the same day. Both Pascal and Grant have electronica music radio shows, and I'm a huge fan of electronica. There were different big top tents with DJs playing every imaginable subgenre of electronica - trance, electric house, techno, etc. The light shows along with the music were mindblowing. I danced like a maniac for at least 5 of the 8 hours we were there. At one point we were all completely hypnotized. Photos can never come close to capturing the ambiance. These were taken [View Full Entry]

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Here are photos from Ostrow Tumski, a small island in the middle of the Warta River, which runs through the middle of Poznan. The first rulers of Poland - Mieszko I and Boleslaw Chrobry are buried under the cathedral. (This is an older post, but I had some new photos to add) [View Full Entry]

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Just what the title says - random photos from around the city. [View Full Entry]

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Okay, we have had a very mild, gray winter...up until now, the END of March. Pascal finally got here last week, and this is his welcome to Poland. For him it was pretty dramatic, but those of us from Michigan know that this hardly qualifies as a storm. [View Full Entry]

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..for laughing at Pascal. Not one hour after my last post, we get a real snowstorm. Pascal went into the city center with me by his own free will. Everyone on the tram looked pissed off, but he kept smiling and snapping photos, saying, "This is interesting." So, most of these photos are his doing. [View Full Entry]

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…most stations throughout the country are appalling lacking in signs denoting the station name and it’s surprisingly easy to miss your stop. Communicating with your fellow passengers can save a lot of time and frustration.~“Poznań in Your Pocket” －－可惜在出事24小時之後才讀到這段 video: 很大的雪 　　史上最慘烈的一 [View Full Entry]

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It's been a long, gray winter here in Poznan, and for that reason I haven't posted any photos. Today I took some grafitti photos from my neighborhood at the request of Sandy Carlson, who does a cool blog about grafitti from around the world entitled, Strange Attractions. I'll be back to posting when the sun, and color, returns to Polska. [View Full Entry]

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