http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Poland , Kuyavian Pomeranian en-us Thu, 10 Dec 09 22:31:32 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 09 22:31:32 +0000 ChrisA quiet day today. We Wandered about Torun without any particular plans in mind. Popped into the British School to see if they had any work but they had not started term time yet so no luck there. Two potential hosts replied unfortunately both wanting us in a week's time. We ended up going to a rockindie bar called The Lizard King to discuss our options over a few beers. We decided t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-447724.html ChrisWe visited the Copernicus Museum today as the town makes a big thing about being the home town of Nickolas Copernicus. Being a bit of an astronomy nut I found the museum pretty interesting although I did feel sorry for Shems Most of the artifacts they had on display were dusty old books some in glass cabinets and also rather randomly lots of cannon balls. Shems tried to force herself ro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-447721.html ChrisWe heeded the advice of the guy on the frontdesk in the hostel and took the train to Turon. We had been told that it would be an interesting and historic place to see birth place of Nickolas Copernicus inventor of the solar system so without much more research we set off to the city. One handy tip we read was to ask someone to write down out the train ticket request so that we could sh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-447281.html Torun 24072001.Torun surely has charm a soul reaching touch of clasic admosphere that breaches the charactre of this ancient realm of the Teutonic Knights small cobblestoned streets overshadowed by mighty churches which ghotic appaerance makes me feel small and insignificant...A ring of powerfull looking walls surrounding the inner city is testomony of my first visit to this ancient place. A http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-433311.html Short factsParticipants Me Destination Torun PolandLength of the trip 3 daysDistance 183 km from Warsaw to TorunMusic Queen AdreenaReading Lonely Planet Eastern Europe Ryszard Kapuscinski Podroze z Herodotem cannot say that I really read this but I bought thisMarch 27.1630 Sitting in the train with Lonely Planet Eastern Europe in my hands. It is interesting and quite amusing to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-386731.html Torun is a city in northern Poland on the Vistula River. The medieval old town of Toru324 is the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus. It was inscribed onto the World Heritage List of UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1997. Torun is one of the few Polish cities which were not destroyed in World War II. The buildings you see here are as old as they look. Everybody knows the story of the rat catch http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-254846.html I wake up at about 630 probably due to the missing rain cover on the tent. Chances for rain are virtually zero at the moment during the day temperatures of around 30 celsius make getting far very hard. It's the evenings when we get the most cycling done even in the morning it's too hot to cycle comfortably.First we reach Chelmno a lovely small town located on a hill which makes getting the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Chelmno/blog-194537.html Torun is a very very gorgeous town in central Poland that is famous for three things 1 being stunningly quaint and beautiful 2 their famous pierniki or gingerbread and 3 birthplace of Kopernik or Copernicus as he was known in Latin.Unfortunately because of my poor judgement we missed the first train and thus had less time than I would have liked here. Torun has 200000 people but it was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-77303.html MensenHier ons eerste berichtje vanaf onze weblog. Inmiddels zijn wij al een week aan het overleven in Torun. Zaterdag 8 april kwamen wij aan op een pittoresk station lees vervallen. Daar namen wij een taxi naar het oude centrum alwaar ons hotel voor de eerste paar dagen gelegen was. 's Avonds gelijk maar gaan stappen naar een leuke tent onder het oude handelsgebouw. Daar bleek geen plaats mee http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Kuyavian-Pomeranian/Torun/blog-53286.html