Blogs from Silesia, Poland, Europe - page 2

After the long lovely day in Prague. Sunday morning a lie in was needed.A quiet day,well it started out that way. Called at the church of bones in Kutna Hora That was featurd in a long way round - bone cracking or not I think. . But not quite as cracking as the thunder storm this afternoon, it's been so hot, and to my amazement the rain was refreshingly good. We drove on into Poland .with out realising, still no boader post, fab quality motorway, could be England, apart from the lack of traffic & road cones About 400km to Waskilli... SL, a fab supper & hotel. Ostrawa Hotel, safe spot for bike. Breakfast with Queen - we are champions! So much UK music... read more

A few trains and a short trip to Poznan to break up the trip to Czestochowa. We will get a better view of the Black Madonna tommorow and then on to Krakow.... read more

My request to the heavens for a celebration of my recent giving notice to my rapidly sinking language school was answered nicely as this weekend randomly and suddenly turned into a Polish road trip, with six (ex-)workmates to a cottage, built by our half-polish/half-czech comrade Jakub's family in the early 1990s. The cottage is situated in the village of Miedźno, near the city Częstochowa, which is one place I have been dying to visit for a long time. Our expedition to this cottage comprised seven people and two cars, who gathered in the early morning calm of the somewhat surrealistic Sídliště Rajská Záhrada on thursday, a Czech state holiday to commemorate the independance of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary. The journey there was long and winding, and became noticeably more chaotic as we crossed into Poland (bringing my ... read more

August 4 - Woke up today early, as usual. I saw Daria's mom before she left for work and she made me promise to eat some breakfast and to wake up Daria. I let her sleep but she work up early anyway. She made us some tortillas with cheese for breakfast that were delicious. Then we sat around watching some tv, including a cartoon movie about a horse in the wild west. Weird. Daria's mom came home at 11am and then we left for Cesky Tesin in the Czech Republic. It took a little longer than expected to get there as they were setting up for the tour de Poland to come through that day, like the tour de France. But we got there with plenty of time to spare, and so I bought the ticket ... read more

Poland will be our final destination for our motorbike tour this summer. But today was another step in the planning stages. Purchased Adventure Motorcycling Handbook by Chris Scott Worldwide Motorcycling Route & Planning Guide or so the blurb on the front cover says. Hopefully we will find some helpful hints in there.... read more