I asked Chat GPT “Who is starogard Girl?” and this is what they said… ChatGPT said: “Starogard Girl” is a term coined by Northern Irish travel writer Jonny Blair. It refers to a Polish woman he met in Starogard Gdański, a town in northern Poland. The story of their relationship — including meeting, falling in…
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“Maybe one day you will make my hometown famous ” – St🌟rogardðŸ°Girl🩷👱♀️. After years of delay, I finally can bring you my latest book, 💚STARO🌟GARDðŸ°GIRL🩷👱♀️. Starogard Girl is Volume 2 of my This Is The Next Century series, which is about my travels from country 100 to country 200. This specific book, Starogard Girl tracks…
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“You can tell the sun in its jealous sky that we walked through fields of gold” – Sting. “Off the wheaten craic” – Jonny Blair. Welcome to the real “off the wheaten craic” journey. A place with nature, no train station, no airport. This is Kokoszkowy! My Polish adventures continued the last few years despite…
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So in August 2016, I announced that my backpacking journey had finally come to an end, at least for now. I had been on the road for too long, 9 years since this travel blog started and I travelled full time for about 7 of the last 13 years, statistics don’t lie, I really backpacked…
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It has been a while since I did a proper Thirsty Thursdays on a city so today it’s back and we head to the remote town of Starogard Gdański in northern Poland – Pomerania Region. I’m growing to love Poland more on more with each visit. There is a sense of freedom, progressiveness with proud…
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Ask me if I had heard of the village of Rywałd last week and I’d have said no way, where is it? But the travel lifestyle is an odd, unpredictable one so I ended up here. Rywałd has a population of around 603, and for one night 604 as a nonchalant Northern Irish backpacker arrived in “town”!…
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After my time in the beautiful city of Gdańsk, I knew it wasn’t quite off the wall enough in Poland for me. I needed another Polish city with a few less tourists and some new charms. In my first two weeks in Gdańsk, I took two side trips – first to Gdynia for a food tour…
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When you travel to the more obscure places, finding budget accommodation can be a problem sometimes and part of my backpacker’s dream is to end up every so often in cities or towns that don’t have a hostel. Once you are in a town without a hostel, you know you are a rare tourist. Starogard…
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