Towering up to almost 2,700 metres (8700 feet) above sea level, the Tatra Mountains form a natural border between Poland and Slovakia. Their dramatic beauty has been an inspiration for many mysterious tales and adventures. Take the Tatras as your travel companion for a day or more and you will not be disappointed. The mountains […]
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Gdansk: Graceful at the Baltic Sea
As a history buff I know Gdańsk mainly as the port city of resistance, of uprising. Standing strong the people of the Baltic Sea city first led in the fall of Polish communist leader Władysław Gomułka in the 1970s. In the 1980s the Solidarność (Solidarity) movement that sprouted in the Lenin Shipyards pressed until the […]