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You can lose everything, but nobody will take away what you saw and what you experienced...
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May 17, 2015 04:00 PM Do not buy 125 ml toothpaste!
I am flying back from Oslo to Gdansk. In Oslo airport I passed through the security. According to the rules I took my toothpaste out of the carry-on backpack - to the provided plastic bag. They took it and recognized that on the tube is printed "125 ml". But it was half empty! -You cannot take it to the cabin - it is more then 100 ml! Are they crazy? Why do not they use the common sense - it is half empty and this is visible!
No, I was forced to throw it to the garbage bin. Stupidity!
Do not buy toothpaste in the big tubes!
2 hours later I landed in Gdansk and took a walk from the airport to my Wojtkówka - it is only 30 minutes by foot! Apple trees are in blossom there. Paradise - just look at the picture...
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May 16, 2015 04:00 PM Constitution Day in Oslo
I celebrate national holiday in Oslo. People in the national costumes on the streets. Each school has its band for the parade in front of the king's palace. It is rainy and windy day but many people joined the parade anyway. I see many flags on the houses. It is funny but on the parade I saw many dark-skin Norwegians. :)
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May 15, 2015 04:00 PM Rainy Oslo
In the morning we took a walk through the Ekeberg Park. It is located on the hill overlooking the center of Oslo. There is a nice view of the capital city from several viewpoints and many contemporary sculptures to enjoy. One of them if dedicated to Marylin Monroe. How to explain my 6 years old grandson who was Marylin and why she looks like that on the sculpture? Rain in the afternoon, sorry...
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May 14, 2015 04:00 PM To the waterfall!
Lovely spring morning. I convinced my son Adam and his family to take full day car tour to the distant Rjukandefossen waterfall. It took us 3 hours each way to get there. The sun was shining when we drove through the region of the green hills, rivers and lakes to the little town of Gol. Snow appeared on the mountain ridgez around. Just 30 kms further we found Rjukande Fall - it is located just 5 min walk from the main road. It is only 18 m high, but very powerful regarding the load of water. Water goes down through the narrow canyon with a short suspension bridge. It is very nice place.
On the return leg we passed another fall: Hydnefossen. It is more then 100 m high, but weak, and you cannot go to closer...
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May 13, 2015 04:00 PM Weekend in Norway
I am flying to Oslo to visit my son Adam and his family. Weekend is a good time because we can spend more time toogether. I pray for a good weather so we can make excursion to the Norwegian countryside. Quite a lot of people from Poland work now in Norway so there are direct flights from Gdansk to Oslo and other cities in Norway. I made a choice of Norwegian Airline. They allow you to take 10 kg of carry on luggage without extra fee. But it is worth to remember that they do not offer internet check-in - you have to get your boarding pass in the airport anyway.
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May 02, 2015 04:00 PM Awarded by The President of Poland
Yesterday in Poland we celebrated The Day of National Flag. On this ocassion in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw Mr. President handed me the national flag - for bringing knowledge of our country to the farthest corners of the world. Then he visited a photo exhibition at the palace, where I explained the content of my pictures and I tried to convince the presidential couple that without subsidies and sponsors can reach all the countries of the world. :)
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Apr 17, 2015 04:00 PM 12th Round the World loop is completed!
I landed in Gdansk before midnight. Four deg Celsius only (in Rio it was 34!) But I was happy anyway. During three months of solo travel I met Poles only once - in Sydney. And here - the people around they speak Polish!.
It was again the voyage not on the beaten track. Maybe that's why it was very inteesting, I met on my trail a lot of greeat people. I saw a lot of beautiful, unique landscapes. But at the end of such a wonderful, global journey it is good to be at home :)
Can you see that map - yes, I did it in full!
Now it will be the time to put my new-gained knowledge into the internet to make travel easier to the other backpackers.
And... to plan a new trip :)
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Apr 16, 2015 04:00 PM Stay away from Air Berlin, if you can!
Iberia plane from Rio to Madrid departed on time. They served tasty hot meal, but on their intercontinental plane passengers do not have private screens and the main one was too far to see anything from my seat.
10 hours later we landed in Madrid. I had there1,5 hours to transfer to the British Airways plane to London. We landed in London on time, but I had only 1 hour to go through sophisticated security screening to their other gate - you have to use their sky train to get to the B wing... I carry all my baggage with me... They were still waiting - I was the last boarding passenger for BAflight to Berlin.
We landed on time on Berlin Tegel but unpleasant surprise was waiting for me here. AIR BERLIN PRACTICES OVERBOOKING! It means that they sell more tickets then they have places on the plane. The last passengers in the airport despite of the confirmed reservation do not fly! I was the last in Berlin. They were laughing when I asked how it is possible. They do not see in their computer that the passenger is on the way to Berlin. Rude people. Stay away from Air Berlin if you can! I am waiting in Tegel airport for the next flight to Gdansk
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Apr 15, 2015 04:00 PM Day 92nd of 93
Yesterday in the late afternoon I managed to take a cable car to the top of Pao de Azucar - Sugar Loaf. The lower station is in Botafogo quarter, cose to Praia Vermilha - it is walking distance from my hostel. Sometimes it is good to be a senior - they offer 50% discount to the people over 60! I paid only 31 reales (like 10 $) for the round trip. There are two sections to "fly" with the nice views... On the middle station you walk about 100 m to board the next gondola. I enjoyed especially the views of the little, hilly islands.
Today in the morning I took a long walk through the tunnel then along all Copacabana Beach to Ipanema. Ipanema (do you remember famous song "girl from Ipanema"?) is in my opinion nicer. It has picturesque mountains on the southern end. And the beautiful girls, of course :)
I spent my last reales. Now it is the time to pack my backpack last time and to go to the airport... It is day 92th of my 12th round-the-world journey. I am coming to the end. Happy end, I believe...
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Apr 14, 2015 04:00 PM Happy in Rio de Janeiro :)
I got ma backpack! It is hard to say if they returned it from Madrid but it is not so important. I am happy to walk again around Rio after 30 years... Today the safety on the streets is much better - you will not see policemen in front of the hotels. But one of local guys asked for the direction told me at the end: watch your maquina (camera), they can catch it quickly and escape!
Metro ride cost 3,70 for 1 USD they give 3 reales. I took the metro to Largo da Machado station. There is a church and in front of the church minibuses to Corcovado mountain are parking. You buy the ticket for 51 reales (it is off-season now, otherwise it will be 62) and you go uphill. It was a little hazy day today but still the view from the bottom of the giant statue of Christ Redemptor is exciting - you have all Rio below. I do not feel well in the crowd of the tourists but they want to see it too :)
Unfortunately there was the invasion of the little wasps at the bottom of the statues. They were very nasty. Two found the way under my shirt and I got two bites. Not very pleasant, but I think I am resistant after many bites received on the cherry tree in my Wojtkowka :)
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