Escape from Me

Don't be taken by surprise, summer in Poland can be really hot - almost comparable to Australia! So what should you pack?

Our last day in Albany arrived way too quickly. I could easily spend a whole week here because there was so much we didn’t get to see. ...

Today is ANZAC Day, and where better to share the event, than in Albany. Celebrated on the 25th of April each year, it is a day where...

It had been snowing in the Porongorup National Park, about 40km from Albany, in the last day or so, so I had been expecting cold, windy...

I was ready to go early this morning. Who am I kidding – I was ready to go last night! Which meant that when I woke at stupid-o’clock...

As I mentioned yesterday, Westerplatte is the site where World War 2 began. The Westerplatte is a peninsula opening out to the Baltic...

Did you know that Gdańsk is where World War II started? Well it did, and it seemed all too fitting for this trip to finish off where the...

Gdańsk is one of three cities along Poland’s Baltic Coast, that forms what is known as the Tricity. Along with Gdynia and Sopot, the...

Gathering the last of my things and closing the door to my apartment for the final time, I pull my suitcase towards the steps and drag it...

With only a few days left in Warsaw, I wandered randomly around the city, filling in the hours with all sorts of things I’d yet to see...

One thing you can say for sure about the Poles, is that they love their icecream, or ‘lody’. The only people who love it more perhaps are...

I had an early bus back to Warsaw, but there was enough time to stroll around town before breakfast. On the top of my list was to find...

For those who don’t know, Motorcycle Speedway consists of generally 4 but up to 6 riders completing four anti-clock wise laps of an oval...

In the blink of an eye, my time in Vilnius is over and I’m boarding the airport train from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Warszawa Centralna. ...

How is it that Krzysztof became a victim of the NKVD? Looking at his photo, I find it impossible to think that this mild looking man...

I know I said I was only visiting one country on this trip, but as you’ve read I went to Belarus and now today I’m heading off to...

Magda Szubanksi writes in her novel ‘Reckoning’, My family were proud Warszawians. Warsaw. War-(sore). In Polish it is pronounced...

Leaving beautiful Błędowo behind, Paula and I head back to Warsaw to drop in on the Pierogi Festival, which was happening down along the...

I arrived back in Warsaw with just enough time to repack my overnight bag, because I was heading to my cousins summer house. Road trip!...

Warsaw Rising Museum I would have no hesitation to call this Warsaw’s Number 1 Museum. Hands down. Located in the suburb of Wola, it...