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Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane June 22nd 2009

So there we were, avid readers, off to Zakopane, the southern Mountain town where both Kasia and Kazik’s parents live. This bus trip nearly had Aleks in nappies. She has been harping on about Zakopane since the day I met her. So for my giggling clapping co-pilot, Zakopane was like the Land of Oz: a place that she visited ten years ago, and still held memories of little log cabins and woodsmoke. She was in for a shock. More on that later. The bus trip itself was comfortable and uneventful, with the latter part of the trip consisting of Aleks grumbling at me to stop reading my book and look out the window. At the pouring rain. I politely fought the notion for a while, but my attention was eventually wrenched from Robert Jordan’s incessant ramblings ... read more
Snow Capped Mountains - Ohhhh Yeeeaaahhh
Church of the Holy Family
Eating String Cheese

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane March 3rd 2009

Short facts: Distance - 400km from Warsaw to Zakopane Length - around 4 days Music - Death Note soundtrack and Chinese audio lessons I was considering for quite long either to go to Zakopane with Erasmus people or not. Main concern was what will I do there if I don't like skiing and trekking was not possible because of the snowfall. But eventually I decided to go. Me and other 3 people were late to have places in the bus, but we had places in hostel so all we needed is to get there by train. Which made me happy as I like trains. We bought our tickets for 00.44 am February 26. While waiting for others to come I was walking around in the station and talking to myself in Mandarin, which apparently was scaring ... read more
Mountain view
With the snowboard
Ocypek salesman

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane January 2nd 2009

01/01/2009 Oscypki and the Broken Shoe We had a quiet new years eve so we could be up early on New Year’s Day to drive to Zakopane in the Polish Tatra mountain area. *Note to self - if you want to drive anywhere without traffic, do it on the morning of the first day of the year! Barely a sole on the road made our drive very easy on the way up, coming back was a different story… The closer we got to Zakopane, the more snow on the side of the road. As we were driving we saw a 22° halo in the sky, it looked like a bright ring around the sun. This forms when clouds are very cold and contain hexagonal ice crystals that are reflected and refracted by light - beautiful! We ... read more
Driving towards Zakopane
Polish houses
Lots of snow!

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane October 19th 2008

Dzień wolny = krótki wypad do Zakopanego przez Ochotnicę, i Nowy Targ. Z Krakowa to trochę nie po drodze, ale Gorce są mniej oblegane przez turystów,a równie piękne...... read more
Nasze miejsce 2
Drugie śniadanie
Bacówka

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane September 29th 2008

Caught the 10am bus to Zakopane towards the Tatra mountains. 2 hours later we are there, its a bit cool here, we walked around to find the hostel, its an old house, the architecture is typical of house here. dropped our things check in is at 2pm , the usual. Found KFC so we had lunch there, walked around the pedestrian streets lots of tourists, we found Tescos as well so we shopped for dinner. We met a very nice young couple, Eva from the Czech Rep. and Fernando a Spaniard, we had good laughs as we plan together our day trip to hike the Tatra tomorrow, we also decided to head off to a cheap bar and get drunk but when we found it it was a pizza place so we just bought beer and ... read more
TATRAS MTNS., ZAKOPANE
TATRAS MTNS., ZAKOPANE
TATRAS MTNS., ZAKOPANE

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane August 24th 2008

Siemanko wszystkim !!:D:D Jak tam wiadomo Zakopane jak co roku musi sie pojawic w moim kalendarzu podrozy ;))... jedno uwazaja za zbyt turystyczne inni ze super miejsce na odpoczynek...ja mam tam swoja ekipe do ktorej zawsze co roku bede wracal ..lub moze kiedys moj tylek tam osiadzie na dluzej :D. Praca , praca, lecz to nie tylko praca tam co mnie ciagnie( to takze nie Porter w Piano :P..choc w duzej mierze takze ;)) to ludzie to ekipa ktora tam poznalem ludzi z calej Polski wbijajacych tam do pracy w naszej szkolce badz troche sie pobawic...a jak czasmi niektorzy na Krzesanego do Pana Rysia...baaa...jak tylko o nim pisze to juz widze przed oczami moja pomidorowa z Krzesanym badz Dewolajem ...lecz coz w zyciu nie zawsze jest pieknie ;). Wakacje polaczone z praca, przyjemne z pozytecznym, to ... read more
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Andrew i ...Andrew :D
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Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane August 21st 2008

21-08-08 Patient Poles and the long walk We got a late start this morning catching up on a big day yesterday. We went to Kuznice a nearby town - taking the local bus. This is a interesting system - all old Mercedes bus, the quing system is open to interpretation, and your free to get as many people in the bus as you feel comfortable, rather then leave anyone behind. We arrived at Kuznice we found another queue for the cable car, everyone was waiting patiently for the car to take us 1000 m up to the peak which is on the border between PL and SK, unfortunately one of the cable cars wasn’t working so it looked like the wait would be 2 hrs… So we decided to walk up a mountain instead - Mt ... read more
Zakopane
Zakopane
Zakopane

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane August 20th 2008

Krakow couldn’t hold us for long, we hopped a bus for Zakopane and our adventure began. After a three hour bus ride we pulled out our maps, in good American tourist fashion, and made our way to Hotel Belvedere and then found some dinner. I thought we were going to be in a small mountain town and be the only people from out of town and I was ready to stand out like a sore thumb but we were just a drop in the bucket. We made our way through the crowds and enjoyed what Zakopane evening entertainment had to offer us but our beds called to us for the next morning was going to come mighty early for our mountain adventure! We awoke early, even though something didn’t settle well with me all night, ... read more
Business was a little show
wagon ride to the top
some of our closest friends

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane June 24th 2008

Thirty minute bus ride from Zakopane up winding mountain road. Jarryd and Barbara did this one their own. Then walked 9kms along a beautiful road to the lake. It was enclosed by mountains- We walked the 2.6km perimeter on large and small boulders - through 4 waterfalls and on glaciers. Then 9km back. Walked 21km in total. Excellent adventure! ... read more
Morskie Oko
Moskie Oko
Morskie Oko

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Zakopane June 22nd 2008

Busy ski resort in winter and picturesque mountain village in summer. Wonderful wooden mountain-style homes. We fell in love with this place with fabulous food from huge open barbeques, fancy bakeries and tall icecreams.... read more
Zakopane
Open grill in Zakopane
Zakopane




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