Blogs from Poland, Europe - page 191

Vestiges of the wars and communism mixed with modernity and capitalism.... read more

Lots of history, so much history!... read more

some say time is your worst enemy. others claim directly opposite. what is time for me? when not travelling - time is the one that brings painful joy of anticipation of ever making plans of vivid images of what you're going to see what you're going to experience what you're going to LEARN it shrinks as each day fades away to become a tiny dot  that eventually marks my departure into the other state of being a dynamic sphere in which you never stop exploring. while travelling, however, time is a fast runner that chases you chanting in your mind endless numbers of days left, hours to come back. so more and more i think of  making my life and myself travel in/with time. this way it would stop following me like a humid shadow. i'm not a ... read more

so. felt my bottom itching again. after a few months of silence i speak again with my voice still full of this 'somewhere else' feeling. this was spontaneous. the decision to go to Israel and to have a real piece of what the media feed us with. yet again, the image of rioting terrorists setting bombs in any spare public place, had to be challenged by what i saw throughout those two weeks. a small land painted in so many colours where the culture is vivid by its variety, its constant movement, impatience, uncertainty. i just opened my eyes and tried to grab a handful of its life. the north. vast landscapes of juicy green, mild in its look and feeling. somewhere in the distance looms mt hermon, my temptation but not realized ambition. even the ... read more

PUT YOUR CURSOR ON THE ABOVE MAP AND YOU CAN MOVE IT TO BETTER ORIENT YOURSELF. YOU CAN CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE IT, THEN GO BACK TO THE JOURNAL OR GO THROUGH THE PHOTOS (CLICK ON THE NUMBERS AT THE TOP) IN THAT ENLARGED FORMAT. This was originally written January 4, 2004 after our return from Poland and Croatia - the second trip to Croatia in 2003. The first was the sailing trip covered in a recent, earlier blog. This explains why we ended up in Poland in the middle of a very cold winter, and then to Croatia for Christmas 2003. We were living in Bochum, Germany at that time. Hello Everybody, We hope you had a fun New Year’s Eve celebration and weren’t in bed by eleven as Bernie and I were. ... read more