Backpacking in Poland: Staying at Hostel Cycle On in Gdańsk

Backpacking in Poland: Staying at Hostel Cycle On in Gdańsk

My return to Poland for my fourth visit meant a first time arrival in Gdańsk. This was a city that interested me through the years for many reasons. Firstly, back at Ards Tech. as a student I studied the history of it all, secondly my love for Micronations and Unusual Republics – as this was once Read more about Backpacking in Poland: Staying at Hostel Cycle On in Gdańsk[…]

Backpacking in Poland: Touring Sand Dunes and Cycling Through the Forest at Słowiński National Park

Backpacking in Poland: Touring Sand Dunes and Cycling Through the Forest at Słowiński National Park

Poland continues to excite, entice and inspire me. Into my third week in the country on this trip (cumulatively I’ve now spent about 14 months of my life in Poland) and we toured an area by the Baltic Sea in Pomerania. It was all another spontaneous trip and I’ll share the story of how myself, Read more about Backpacking in Poland: Touring Sand Dunes and Cycling Through the Forest at Słowiński National Park[…]

Songwriting in Poland: (You Have Your Life) Warszawa Skies

Songwriting in Poland: (You Have Your Life) Warszawa Skies – “This A Present From Stalin’s Reign”

“This; a present from Stalin’s Reign, but you have your life again” – Jonny Blair. Most people reading this travel blog will know me as a travel writer, or as someone who writes about a lifestyle of travel. But that’s not really what writing was about for me when it all began. I started life Read more about Songwriting in Poland: (You Have Your Life) Warszawa Skies – “This A Present From Stalin’s Reign”[…]

Studying Saturdays: Learning Polish in Gdańsk at Learn Polish in Gdańsk

“Libraries gave us power” – Manic Street Preachers. It’s been ages since I did a Studying Saturdays post and I still believe that we are all perpetual students until the day we die. We are always learning, always studying. We are forever on a learning cycle on this planet. As far as learning languages is Read more about Studying Saturdays: Learning Polish in Gdańsk at Learn Polish in Gdańsk[…]

My Poignant Visit to the Polish Post Office in Gdańsk: Where World War II Began

“Close your eyes. Clear your heart. Cut the cord” – The Killers. Life continues to provide us with ups and downs on the journey. Moments of high elation and happiness and moments that remind us of the bad times that people on this planet had to endure in the horrors of yesteryear. I feel the need to Read more about My Poignant Visit to the Polish Post Office in Gdańsk: Where World War II Began[…]

Backpacking in Poland: Cycling in Gdańsk with Mika on the Road and Hostel Cycle On

Backpacking in Poland: Cycling in Gdańsk with Mika on the Road and Hostel Cycle On

When I arrived in Gdańsk in Poland, I booked into the hostel Cycle On. Immediately from the title you get the idea that the guys that run the hostel, Piotr and Pawel are big cyclists. In my dorm room, by chance I met the lovely Mika. Mika is a Taiwanese traveller and runs the page Read more about Backpacking in Poland: Cycling in Gdańsk with Mika on the Road and Hostel Cycle On[…]

My Polish Food Tour in Gdynia, Poland with Eat Polska

My fourth visit to Poland took me on an exciting new adventure that I concocted in my mind during a history lesson at Ards Tech in Northern Ireland. You see, I remembered the old moniker of the “Free city of Danzig” (once an autonomous region protected by the League of Nations). Back then, the place Read more about My Polish Food Tour in Gdynia, Poland with Eat Polska[…]

World Borders: How to Get from Poland to Ukraine (Kraków to Lviv Night Train)

It was another border crossing on this wacky journey for me recently as I decided on a night train to head from Poland to the Ukraine. I had been staying at the Mosquito Hostel in the city of Krakow and was out touring Auschwitz and Birkenau the day before, so it was a busy few Read more about World Borders: How to Get from Poland to Ukraine (Kraków to Lviv Night Train)[…]