http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Poland , Silesian , Katowice en-us Tue, 08 Dec 09 00:18:32 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 09 00:18:32 +0000 Ah this weekend was Poland one of my top places to visit. Poland was great even though it seemed like it ended with everything that could possibly go wrong going wrong. But let me start by telling you the good part of the trip.The trip started out fairly smoothly. We got up super early on Friday morning nothing out of the ordinary here caught our train to Milan made it to the airport a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/blog-386211.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/blog-381971.html BRATISLAVA KATOWICE 01.10.08Km traveled 3040Jogging early morning under the rain with a backpack the size of yourself on your shoulders to catch the 5.54 train is a MUST for every traveler. So we thought that was a good chance for us to show off our traveling skills. When you choose to take a train so early in the morning when it's still dark it means that things are going to be difficult. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/blog-330199.html Sorry for the lateness of this blog entry although I guess alot of you in the northern hemisphere are on holiday anyway. We have been very busy here in Poland. But before that Thailand. Once again it managed to deliver. We visited Chang MAi in the North Train there and Plane back. We managed to do a fly by wire in the jungle. The largest of which was 150m high and 300m long. A kind of flying fo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/blog-306776.html Boarding the plane i was asking myself am I really flying to Poland right now Right now I am in the Southernmost part of Africa and in several hours I will be touching down in Krakow Poland. It felt unbelieveable and somehow also just the 'next step' on this journey that is in one sense so planned out and in another so unpredictable and spontaneous. And like so many other moments over the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/blog-296440.html The first thing we do when we land in a new place is to get a street map and try to get ourselves oriented on it. This involves walking around quite a bit to see what's nearby in every direction from our hotel. So far in Katowice we have seen lots of apartment buildings one university a few churches and some shops and restaurants. This place is not geared toward the tourist and so it doesn't http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesian/Katowice/blog-267788.html