Railway musings south of Warsaw

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Sunday, 31 August 2008

Sunday in the city

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I was in the centre of Warsaw today to address a climate-change awareness picnic held on Nowy Swiat , along with a number of diplomats, gov...
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Shadow of its former self

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The giełda fotograficzna at Stodoła, the Warsaw Polytechnic students' club on ul. Batorego, was once the largest weekly camera fair in ...
Saturday, 30 August 2008

Tuwim's Lokomotywa, in English

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Ever since I mentioned Julian Tuwim's verse Lokomotywa last December , and its emotional impact on me as a child (especially the versio...
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Friday, 29 August 2008

So what was all that about, then?

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Warsaw ground to a halt today as 18,000 (police estimate) or 30,000 (Solidarity claim) trade unionists gathered to protest... about what pre...
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Supersized invertebrates this summer

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Well I never! This is the biggest slug I've seen in my life! I caught this fellow on the pavement on ul. Górnośląska on my way to work t...
Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Of castles, dams and brass bands

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Returning into Poland from Slovakia, Eddie and I continued on foot towards the castle on the lake (now dammed) at Czorsztyn. Rather than wa...
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Monday, 25 August 2008

Michael Palin was right

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About Slovakia, that is. Eddie persuaded me to drive down from Dobra to the Slovak border, and given that we're all in Schengen now, to ...
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Back to Dobra, back to steam

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Couldn't get enough of it! I returned on Friday evening to Dobra, and on Saturday morning Eddie and I set off for another go on the stea...