Putting Pawprints Across The Planet!
Tag: Caravan life
Thank you to Maggie and Richard of the FAB Monkey’s Tale adventure travel blog for nominating me for The Travel Challenge.
The challenge is to post a favourite travel picture for 10 days without explanation and nominate someone else to participate.
Continue reading “Travel Challenge – Day Six”
In our sights was a cosmopolitan municipality whose university produced nine Nobel laureates and a quirky anti-communist resistance movement. A centre for locomotive manufacture, it’s a place where you can get footplate experiences on the last scheduled steam passenger service in the world.
Over the centuries, it has been known by many names, including Breslau and Vratislav. Its abundant appellations are a prism which separates out a microcosm of Poland’s troubled history.
Wrocław is billed not only as the largest city in Western Poland and the capital of Silesia, but one of the oldest and most beautiful.
Continue reading “Gravestones, Gnomes & Złoty Pies, Wrocław, Poland”
A Polish man went for an eye test.
“Can you read the chart?” the optician asked
“Read it?” he replied, “I know him!”
My home town of Blackburn, Lancashire has a large Polish community, so unlike Czech, I can claim some form with Polish pronunciation.
Continue reading “Journey to the Centre of Europe, Bolków, Poland”
Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak…
“Can’t you see the funny side?” I asked a rather grumpy Mark.
Children playing nicely can add to the ambience of a campsite. As we tucked into Frankie’s breakfast special on the terrace that morning, the sound of three toddlers enjoying the sandpit was a genuine pleasure. Kokořín had exceeded all expectations, although moving to a place called Český ráj – Bohemian Paradise had launched our hopes into the exosphere.
But we made a terrible mistake.
Continue reading “Kokořín to Český ráj – ‘Bohemian Paradise’, Czech Republic”
