Weekend in the country

Visited A’s house in the hills to the south of Krakow this weekend. Krakow and the surrounding towns and villages are served by a plethora of minibuses, coaches, charabangs, and lashed-together wheelbarrows powered by stolid peasants. Ok, the last one isn’t true. Nevertheless, it’s remarkable how many companies there are ferrying people backwards and forwards [...]

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Wyspianski unwinding

Went for a couple of beers with D on Saturday night. A was unfortunately performing at a festival out of town so I didn’t get to see her until Sunday. Anyway, as is his custom, D dragged me to some obscure bar down a little frequented street. Poor lad spends most of his spare time [...]

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The view from Batorego Street

I have arrived, and to prove it…
Got a taxi to the airport, mostly because I needed someone to help me lift my suitcase. I remember a great episode of Blake’s Seven in which someone had hidden a speck of neutron star no bigger than a dust mote but weighing hundreds of kilos aboard a space [...]

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