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You can lose everything, but nobody will take away what you saw and what you experienced...
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Nov 17, 2019 10:00 PM Barcelona in the sun
I like Barcelona and after an hour of walk from terminal D it was nice to walk once again famous Ramble to Plaza Catalonia. Police is present in the side streets - demonstrations expected... City free WiFi does not work - I went to Hard Rock Cafe :)
Tomorrow and after tomorrow we will be at sea on our way to the Canaries - no messages, sorry.
On the ship there are hundreds of Russians and one Pole - Mr Grzegorz - I want to meet him today... I have drinks included in the package so I will drink your health tonight with rum!
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Nov 16, 2019 10:00 PM Boarding the ship in Marseille
It is not so pleasant to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the airport... At this period the sunrise in Gdansk is only around 7 am! I did! The backpack was ready so soon I was on the way to the airport. I travel to Marseille with KLM via Amsterdam. On the award ticket... One checked luggage is included so it will not be necessary to carry it to the cabins of the small planes... OK - we started on time and on the way savvy Dutch served one sandwich and coffee/juice. In Amsterdam I
immediately went to the gate - just to recognize that my second flight will be delayed 25 min (so far...). No problem, "Costa Pacifica" will be waiting in the port till the evening. So why I travel again by ship to South America? I did this marine route already 3 times... The answer is simple: this was great occasion - imagine single cabin on the elegant cruise ship with full board and drinks for 50 euro per day! So way not to take such a chance and fly on the cramp plane? Let's hope that everything will be great.
Train took me from MRS airport to St Charles station for 5.20 euro. Then bus 35 from Joliette Sq to the gate 4 of the port. Still about 2 kms to the ship - walking all the way I boarded the ship at 4 pm. We departed at 5 pm.
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Nov 15, 2019 10:00 PM New voyage - escaping to South America
Rainy, dark and cold November in Gdansk, so it's no wonder that I'm going on another long journey. It will consist of two parts. To begin with, I will take a ship from Marseille to Buenos Aires. The second part of the journey is a car route around central Argentina during which we are going to travel (with another Polish traveler - Mr. Irek) over 5000 kilometers.
At the beginning it will be a journey at the foot of the snowy Andes, and then we will turn east to visit the national park on the Valdez Peninsula and to return to Cordoba through the great areas of the Argentine pampa. We should land in Gdansk on December 19th - just on time to buy the christmas trees. If only on the route I will have cheap internet access, you'll find short messages from the whole route as always in my travel log.
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Nov 15, 2019 10:00 PM By ship to South America
I will be sailing from Marseille to Buenos Aires on "Costa Pacifica" - of course in the last expensive inside cabin - here you can see the route.
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Nov 09, 2019 10:00 PM Annual Meeting of Polish Globies
Two days of film- and slideshows from all over the world!!!. But also a chance to meet fellow travellers, old friends, top Polish alpinists and passionate bakcpockers. I attended the 35-th Meeting of Polish Globetrotters in Rzeszów, South Poland, giving two presentations: about Estrada Real in Brazil and about Haapai Islands in the Pacific...
There were a lot nice and interesting pictures to see in the hall housing more then 200 people. But for me the real hit were the slides from South Angola.
I was especially happy to meet after years my old friend Monika Witkowska (in pink on the pictures) She climbed Seven Summits. Congratulations Monika!
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Nov 06, 2019 10:00 PM Giving lecture...
It was my great pleasure to travel again to Lubin - South Poland to give a lecture for the local society, but first of all for the members of the Mountain Club. Imagine that they invite me every year since 10 years already. I was talking and showing pictures from Tonga - the last kingdom in the Pacific Ocean. Great audience! I sold few books and... I found the companion for the North Pacific cruise! :)
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Oct 26, 2019 08:00 PM Tangier to Gdansk in one day
It is time to fly back home... How to get to the Tangier airport early in the morning? No public bus. Taxi could be expensive for the backpacker.
It was still dark when I was marching Tangier to Rabat road. Many local people were waiting for the lift out of the city center. They are friendly. Using my poor French we came to the conclusion that I should go with them by the city bus no. 2 to the roundabout on that road near the second Shell station. Then it will be only 2 kms walk to the airport.
Bus ride cost me only7 dirhams. At 7 am I was already in the airport.
I checked in in advance for Ryanair flight I had my boardingpass printed. But the guys from security sent me back to the counter. IN TANGIER AIRPORT THERE IS ONLY MANUAL CHECK-IN! Stay in the line...
They have only 3 gates here. Flight was 30 min delayed, but I catch the connection inBergamo anyway. In the evening I was at home. One more interesting trip is successfully completed!
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Oct 25, 2019 08:00 PM Tangier - around Medina and Kasba
This city was always on the crossroads of the travellers, adventurers and all black characters... In the morning I was walking around Medina - the old, walled part of the city, with nice gates, great bazaar, narrow streets full of the people in traditional jalabas. It is still alive, not like a tourist ghetto. The top part of Medina it is Kasba - the castle. It has outside the northern wall great viewpoint so you can see all Gibraltar Strait including the rock of Gibraltar - on a clear day like today... Below the southern wall of Kasba in ghe maze of the steep and narrow streets I found the modest tomb of Ibn Batuta - great medieval Arab traveller who visited 44 countries - at this period it was real challenge.. So I think that for the big oustanding travellers such a visit is a must when in Tangier. Unfortunately the interior of the little tomb was locked... See me on the picture in front of the tomb.
Tangier still has cosmopolitan atmosphere, is very picturesque and I was happy to see it today - before it was always out of my routes...
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Oct 24, 2019 08:00 PM Tetouan - the royal city...
Tetouan, with some 300 000 inhabitants is one of the royal cities, it means there is a official royal palace... In the morning I spend more than an hour crawling the labyrinth of the narrow lanes of medina. Finally one of the old city gates took me to the big square with picturesque palms - Place Hassan II. The gate of the palace, guarded by n
many soldiers and policemen was on the right. Is the king there?
From this place to the west elegant pedestrian street named after king Mohammed V leaded me to the next place with big Spanish church. This quarter is a Spanish quarter. Few people remember that northern part of Morocco till 1956 was Spanish protectorate...
OK, along the city walls I went to the little Lovers Park - but no lovers there in the morning and later -to the imposing bus station. Ticket to Tangier cost me only 15 dirhams and this was 1,5 h ride between the rolling hills. So I am in cosmopolitan Tangier, staying in the old Pension Safari from 1908... I was always dreaming of beeing here...
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Oct 22, 2019 08:00 PM 6 hours on the public bus...
... but what a views! I was travelling today from Al Hoceima to Tetouan and I must say that it was one of the most picturesque bus journeys in my life. The ticket for this route costs 90 dirhams. I was lucky to grab the front seat... Well paved road goes initially through the color mountains.
After 1.5 hours we reached first mountain pass. Then descent to the long bridge on the oued and climb to the second pass. Just after this pass -135 kms before Tetouan you will see the lovely blue sea. The rest of this journey will be along the coast: climbing coastal mountains and descendig to the little, picturesque villages on the coast like Jebkha.
We reached Tetouan around 6 pm. Rain. Not easy to find my Arabic hostel in the labirynth of the old, atmospheric Medina. Finally I did. What a day!
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