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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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