Goodbye Poland, Hello Canada

After two nights and a day in Krakow we are now at the gate for our first flight of three. We should be home in Victoria in roughly 24 hours.  Travel days are always interesting. I handle them much better than I used to however. I know there will be great...
Olenders

Olenders

June 9, 2025 - Plock to Wloclawek - 56 kms - Apartament Rena June 10, 2025 Wloclawek to Torun - 64 kms - J&J Apartments  June 11, 2025 - Torun - J&J Apartments  Ruth: We are mostly following marked bike paths on every surface imaginable from...

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Happy Birthday Great Great Grandfather!

Happy Birthday Great Great Grandfather!

June 8, 2025 - Nowy Secymin to Plock - 68 kms - Sempre B & B Ruth: Today was such a lucky day, and it all happened on the birthday of my Great Great Grandfather, Johann (John) Gottlieb Gatzke. Johann Gottlieb Gatzke was born on June 8, 1839, in Posen,...

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Warsaw with Friends

Warsaw with Friends

June 5 & 6, 2025 - in Warsaw with Ewa and Tadek. June 7, 2025 Warsaw to Nowy Secymin - Pokoj Kon z Kominkiem - 61 kms Ruth: We were not planning to see Warsaw, but when we heard that our friends Tadek and Ewa were renting an apartment there, we changed our route...

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Back to the Vistula River

Back to the Vistula River

June 1, 2025 - Lublin - 11 km day ride - Fontana Boutique Apartments  June 2, 2025 - Lublin to Kazimierz Dolny - 64 kms - Zamkowa Pokoje  Goscienne June 3, 2025 - Kazimierz Dolny to Kobylnica - 63 Kms - Agroturystyka Kobylnica June 4, 2025 - Kobylnica...

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Majdanek & Lublin

Majdanek & Lublin

May 30, 2025 - Zamość to Rybczewice - 67 kms - Apartamenty Mieszkaniowe Kadrena  May 31, 2025 - Rybczewice to Lublin - 43 kms - Fontana Boutique Apartments  Ruth: In 1848, at age nine, my Jewish Great Great Grandmother Wilhelmina (Mina) Taussig left her...

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Zamość

May 28, 2025 - Biłgoraj to Zamość - 55 kms - Hotel Sukcesor May 29, 2025 - Zamość - Hotel Sukcesor Gordon:  We are enjoying our first rest day in the attractive small city of Zamość.  With the assistance of an Italian architect it was built from scratch as a...

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Into the Forest

Into the Forest

May 25, 2025 - Rytwiany - Sandomierz - 68 kms - Hotel Pod Cizemka  May 26, 2025 - Sandomierz - Pikorowy - 52kms - Trzy Stawy  May 27, 2025 - Pikorowy - Biłgoraj - 55kms - Hotel Sukcesor  Ruth: We have spent our last few days cycling through open fields...

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Zalipie

Zalipie

May 24, 2025: Miechowice Wielkie - Rytwiany - 71kms - Rytwiany Hotel Ruth: During the planning stages of this trip our Polish friend Ewa sent a photo of a little painted house and suggested we visit the town of Zalipie. Yesterday we took a cable ferry and a small...

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Down the Vistula to Grandma’s House

Down the Vistula to Grandma’s House

A warm cabin with sausages and hand made pierogies May 23, 2025: Krakow - Miechowice Wielkie - 87kms - Kogutowo Agrotourism May 24, 2025 Ruth: I lost sleep worrying about the length of our first day's ride, but as with many of my worries it turned out to be no problem...

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Krakow

Krakow

May 20th to 23rd, 2025- Cybulskiego Guest Rooms No riding (but a lot of walking) Gordon:  Our first flight, the puddle jump from Victoria to Vancouver, was delayed by two hours, so we had to accept a new routing on a Lufthansa flight through Munich.  Our...

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