A few years ago, I was going from Poland to Mumbay, with some cargo to be unloaded in Karachi, on the way. Mumbay was called Bombay, and I liked it better so. In Poland, I was with a ship in a common wharf placed equally between Gdynia and Gdansk. Here are my "adventures" in Gdansk, the medieval city, relatively fresh "freed" from Soviet influence. Nice city, very nice, even if I was still under the influence of Bretagne and the Brittons from Brest, :). First of all, I headed to the … [Read more...]
The joy of discovery
I always liked to travel. I was lucky, I had traveler parents when I was a child. They gathered together with other family friends and spent long holidays, driving in different places through the country. Mine is very beautiful, and I was glad every time we left it, but really happy when we came back. The farthest we went those times, was Germany, the "democratic" one of the two. There were times when travel over national borders was restricted, controlled and directed mostly to the "friends" … [Read more...]