Still. Still achieving? Achieving stillness? Is being still even an achievement when it’s forced upon you? For five months and more we haven’t spent longer than three nights in the same place. Until now. Now. We’ve been in the Poprad area of Slovakia for the best part of a month. If we could separate the […]
The Cornish Wanderer
A shaggy dog’s story. The word from Polly.
Holy puppies. There are some long faces around me. It’s as if I was already dead! Having said that – I do feel like death pretty much every day, but it won’t get me down. How did we get here in the first place? Fortunately I wrote most of this ages ago when I was […]
Slovakian cliffhangers, at the vets and in the gorge.
An extended stay in Slovakia. The dog’s need for treatment will keep us in Slovakia a week longer than we had planned, but when we’re not worried about her we’re making a thoroughly good time of it. Rain is forecast frequently here, but it doesn’t always fall. Saturday morning’s expected downfall turned out to be […]
The Grand Hotel Praha – welcome to Slovakia.
Bring me interesting borders – I love them. Poland’s main ski resort of Zakopane in the High Tatras has some fabulous wooden villas, quite unlike anything we’ve seen elsewhere in Poland. Sadly many have fallen into disrepair, and become crowded in as new hotels are built in the gardens of once grand residences. The town […]
Krakow, Auschwitz, Poland. Part 3.
Leaving Wroclaw. Early Sunday morning. Few people are out. And Polly is happy to walk. We wander down the modern bank of the Odra river, where the multimillion pound offices of the big consultancy firms and solicitors look out across the water towards the old town. The landscaping of all of the modern areas we’ve […]
Poznan and Wroclaw. Poland. Part 2.
Still in Gdansk. I can’t get enough of this city. Beyond the Old Town there’re the sparkling new shopping centres that deliver a fully modern retail experience in a relatively compact space. The Old Town itself seems to keep giving more, and this morning the sun was bright and the sky blue making for much […]