Three days ago, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of regaining independence. We celebrated the occasion in various ways – hanging out the Polish flag, taking part in the independence march, singing all the verses of the Dąbrowski Mazurka…
25 medals
Categories: Misc
Tags: 100 anniversary of Polish independence, Independence Day, Katyn, Order of the White Eagle, Patriotism, Poland
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Neither in desert nor in wilderness
I have no idea what stopped me from translating this post straight away but I’m catching up now.
I went to Morocco in July 2013 with the intention of visiting a friend from high school, who lives with her husband Nabil and son Kamil in Casablanca. Life, however, wrote a different scenario (of which Ania reminds me until today 😛) and I spent only three days in Casa. I visited Morocco during Ramadan Continue reading
Visiting Kaunas and Trakai
When I was recently looking for something on English version of my blog I’ve realized that I haven’t translated my entry from Kaunas, which ends my Lithuanian saga. Well, the time has come then. Continue reading
Categories: RTW trip
Tags: Crimean Karaites, Island castle in Trakai, Karaims, Kaunas, Lithuania, Lituanica, Mother of God of Trakai, Peninsula castle in Trakai, Poland, Poles in Kaunas, Poles in Lithuania, Poles in Trakai, Presidential Palace in Kaunas, The Vytautas the Great War Museum, Trakai, Vytautas the Great
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Marcin’s winter adventure
Despite the unexpected attack of winter in Europe it’s impossible to hide the fact that the spring is approaching with big steps. I will end the winter period with blog entry. During the first weekend of March Sweden hosted an annual 90-kilometre Vasa Race (Swedish: Vasaloppet) in Sweden. This race takes place in the Dalarna county which symbol is the so-called Dalarna Horse (Swedish: Dalahäst) and is part of the so-called Winter Week, when different length races take place. Two years ago in February I spent a few days there, let me then describe my experiences.
Dalarna Horse
Categories: RTW trip
Tags: Dalarna, Dalarna Horse, dog sledding, Gustav I Vasa, Justyna Kowalczyk, Kalmar Union, Mora, Poland, Poles in Sweden, Salen, snowmobiling, Stockholm Bloodbath, Sweden, Vasa Race, Vasaloppet
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First Polish explorer
I mentioned on my Polish Trace Around the World Facebook page Benedict the Pole, who explored East before Marco Polo. This is his story. Continue reading
Warning, mines!
A few days ago, when I posted about Jozef Kosacki on my blog’s FB page I wanted to add a link to the actual entry on my blog and I realized that I haven’t translated it to English 😦 Here it goes then.
The fact that the Poles “broke” the Enigma code is probably widely known but we have one more invention that saved lives of thousands but let me build up the excitement first.
Nairobi
So we got to Nairobi. The city has more than three million inhabitants and its name comes from a water hole called in Maasai Enkare Nairobi – a place of cool water. The city was founded relatively recently in 1899 and it was a rail station between Mombasa and Kampala. As early as 1905 it became the capital of the British protectorate and a tourist destination as people used it as a starting point for safari and hunting. After gaining independence Nairobi began to grow rapidly and is now a city of contrasts, besides the enclosed neighbourhoods like Karen we also find the second largest city slum in Africa – Kibera. But we didn’t have time to get to know the city well. We were picked up from the airport by a driver named Kwach who took us to my friend Gosia who worked in Nairobi for InterHealth, an international charity. We were taken to the charity event that was ending soon but they still served food and I never say no to free food 😉
Categories: RTW trip
Tags: Africa, beads factory, David Sheldrick Elephant and Rhino Orphanage, East Africa, elephants, Fair Trade, Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Karen Blixen Museum, Kazuri, Kenya, Masai, Nairobi, Ngong Hills, Out of Africa, Poland, Poles in Africa, Poles in Kenya, Rothschild giraffes, swahili, Tsavo National Park
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Marcin in Mombasa
So we landed at the hotel on Diani Beach. The hotel was actually a few large cottages where the ground floor and the first floor were separate rooms with kitchenettes, the lower one being like a small apartment. The whole estate is surrounded by a wall and between the houses there’s a lot of greenery – bushes with flowers and palm trees. We were warned to close all windows because monkeys like to go into the cottages. We also had a baboon that ate our chocolate and shamelessly used our floor as a toilet.
Almost like a paradise
Spices of the East
You will think I’m crazy – two entries in a week?!? But this one will be short and not on the subject (and what is the subject somebody might ask). I do not know if the inspiration came from the Heart of Darkness which I’m reading now again or from Shantaram which I want to read again as the second part is on the shelf getting dusty. Or perhaps I have always had a weakness for anything “exotic”. Continue reading
Categories: Misc
Tags: Age of Exploration, Christmas, Indian cuisine, Poles in Sweden, Spices, Sweden
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About me
I look for Polish traces around the world and present them to readers. I also write about my travels in and outside Europe.
Polish traces around the world 