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You can lose everything, but nobody will take away what you saw and what you experienced...
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Mar 01, 2018 10:00 PM Cozumel - Yucatan
Dear Friends
After Honduras and Belize our ship arrived today to Cozumel port on Yucatan Peninsula. The view of Cozumel from the ship you have on the picture. Everything goes well. Internet expensive... sorry. More soon...
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Feb 26, 2018 10:00 PM Highest peak on Roatan?
After day at sea our big boat arrived to Coxen Hole on the Roatan Island, which belongs to Honduras. Coxen was the pirate who had here his hideaway... Instead taking an expensive excursion I decided to climb the highest visible mountain Dixie Peak. Nobody was able to tell me if there is a nice view from the top.
The way uphill by bumpy countryside road was interesting because I saw there real life... The peak with radar and radio antennas is fenced, but friendly caretaker allowed me to go in and took some pictures.
My GPS showed there 245 m above the cea level.
Both sides of the island are visible from the top... But for the best view of your ship go rather to Spanish Town, where taxi drivers took all visitors... :)
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Feb 24, 2018 10:00 PM Boarding the ship
It is again sunny day on Florida. After a little ride around West Palm Beach we are driving to the Port of Miami. My ship is already waiting there... As you already know the internet connection from the ship is very expensive so be prepared that (maybe) the next message from me will be only one week later - unless I will find cheap internet access in the port. Ahoy!
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Feb 23, 2018 10:00 PM Sunny Florida
After 10-hours Norwegian flight from Oslo I landed in the evening in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is not a huge airport, but I was waiting 1,5 hours in the line for immigration control. I like Americans, but sorry, dear friends it is shame on you! Every passenger in the line is paying on the top of his air ticket the extra fee for that procedure.
As a result it was already midnight when I reached the house of my friends.
Lovely sun woke me up in the morning. 26 deg Celsius! Flowers in blossom, light breeze from the ocean. After minus 6 deg in Gdansk it is like paradise... My friend gave me an interesting excursion through West Palm Beach and Palm Beach located on the long island. I liked most St Edward Catolic Church with its great inner decoration. In the Lantana suburb we had a chance to enjoy Street Paint Festival with few dozens of artists working on the open air (see picture). Lovely, relaxing day!
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Feb 22, 2018 10:00 PM New expedition to America!
I am setting off on a new journey! This time my route takes me to Central America and the USA. I waited until the last minute until the shipping company only five days before the departure of the ship from Miami offered half the price for a single passenger cabin. It was a va banque game, because if all the cabins had been previously sold, there would be no such option. The rest for the veteran of the world trails was already the proverbial pit. And so the plan of another lonely expedition was completed - see the map.
I will reach by ship new, unknown ports in Belize and Mexico, and after returning to Miami I will fly by cheap line to Havana to remind myself of what Cuba looks like 40 years after my first visit. Then another cheap airline will take me to Cancun on Yucatan. And from there, I plan to travel by buses all over the way to Los Angeles, California, stopping along the way in cities where I have not been yet. This bus route is almost 5000 kilometers long, so it will definitely be a challenge. And also a new great adventure! I will finally see Veracruz and the famous Olmek heads! I plan to return before Easter. Please, keep your fingers crossed for me!
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Jan 02, 2018 10:00 PM From Moscow with love...
My last day in bright Moscow. To fly back to Kaliningrad on a cheap airline UTair I was forced to go to Vnukovo Airport. Moscow's subway is quite fast and efficient - I took the subway to the end of the red line - station Salaryevo. I took me 30 min on the subway to get there. Once out of the station I crossed the road - there is bus stop for the bus no. 911 going to Vnukovo airport. You need separate ticket for that city bus (55 roubles) so it is better to buy it in subway station (there are same ticket valid for subway and buses). After 15 minutes I have been already in front of the airport terminal.
At the entry first security check. I dismantle my little torch into 3 separate parts and I passed the screening without any problems. UTair has automated check-in stands, but they did not work... Line to the check-in desk... OK, I have the boarding pass. Now documents control... An the second security control: will they confiscate my torch? Ufff... It is OK! After an hour I was alderady on the plane - squeezed because little space for the legs... 1h 40 min flight. Sun in Kaliningrad! City bus to the bus/railway station goes every 40 min (80 roubles) Then I bought the ticket (540 rou) for the 2 pm bus to Gdansk. One hour waiting at the border - not to bad! I am happy to be back in Poland....
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Jan 01, 2018 10:00 PM Moscow - New Year fever!
Last evening I spent with my friends from SERVAS organization Katerina and Igor enjoying their tea, the cakes and honey, talking about everyday life, about travels and plans for the future. Very nice people and enjoyable evening! Then I was coming by foot to my hotel in the light... It is hard to find such a rich decorated city in the whole world. Almost at every subway station in the center you can find huge "2018" digits, along Tverskaya Boulevard there are few stages giving in the evening different shows for adults and kids. Everything to make the people happy, to convince them that everything goes well and it will be even better. Days are short so the unusual illumination could be appreciated most of the day... I wanted to go to Klin near Moscow to visit the Tchaykovsky house, but sorry it is closed for holiday. So I plan to take the metro to Sportivnaya station to visit Novodyevichy Monastery.
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Dec 31, 2017 10:00 PM Red Square was empty at midnight, but....
Yesterday I arrived to central Moscow at 5.30 pm expecting that I will be able to enter Red Square before the access will be limited. No way! Four police cordons isolated the square from the rest if the city. The square were perfectly cleaned up from the people. I got the message from police officer: the entry will be open from 6 pm, but only by invitations!
Bad luck! How to get the invitation? My knowledge of Russian helped me. Dima helped me. His friend did not arrive. He gave me this valuable envelope wishing me happy New Year! Long live Russian-Polish friendship! The ilumination of the square was just great. At 7.30 pm they started the show transmited by the first channel of Russian TV. Best Russian artists were singing one by one on the stage. There were also ballet an a lot of special effects... Fantastic!
But... They finished the show at 10.20. And surprisingly police started to push the people out of the square. They are very professional!
All crowd went around the government buildings to the new park on the hill -with a great view of the Kremlin and the river. There we were waiting till midnight to see the "salut" - that's how they call fireworks and to meet the new year. Happy New Year to Moscow and whole world!
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Dec 30, 2017 10:00 PM Waiting for the New Year in Moscow
It is foggy since the morning in the capital of Russia with the light, melting snow. I got the message from my friend Valeri Skliarov - the great Russian traveller. He is already waiting for the New Year in Sydney, Australia... It is already 8 pm there. And I am waiting for the improvement of the weather in my Mini Hotel Philadelphia in Basmanny Quarter in Moscow. It is very cozy and well organized place, where the budget single room costs just 1000 roubles per night. The guests have huge and well equipped kitchen with free tea/coffee and big, clean bathroom to use. Food in Russia is still less expensive then in the West: the loaf of bread in the supermarket 150 m away - on Pokrovka street - costs 31 roubles - like half of dolar...
The center of Moscow looks very bright - one of the two most important holidays is coming! (The other one is Victory Day - celebrated on May 9th). We will see...
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Dec 29, 2017 10:00 PM Moscow in December
When I was in Moscow for the first time - in the 70-ties I used metro (subway) paying 5 kopeek per ride. Now I pay 55 roubles per ride. For such amount of money years ago it was possible to make 1100 rides, can you believe?
The sky over Moscow was cloudy when I was going to Stary Arbat street, where in the pedestrian zone stands the monument of Bulat Okudzhava - my favourite Russian poet and singer... In the souvenir shops nearby they sell Stalin and Gagarin Tshirts and Red Army hats. I cannot see any Lenin souvenirs - it seems he became less popular.
Near the Kremlin they already opened the big New Year fair... On the Red Square another surprise was waiting for me: half of the square is occupied by the paid attractions like skating ring, mary-go-rounds and the stalls of another fair. See on the picture nicely iluminated GUM shopping center. Somebody advised to be early on the square during the New Year night because police block the entry if they see that too much people want to go in. We will see...
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