An incredible medieval city, a capital city that blends a Soviet past with a Portland by way of Helsinki vibe, and the best bread I have ever eaten made this country an incredible stop.
An incredible medieval city, a capital city that blends a Soviet past with a Portland by way of Helsinki vibe, and the best bread I have ever eaten made this country an incredible stop.
A brief stop to see Bono, visit the museums of natural history and eat one of the three best hamburgers in my life. Not a bad few days.
Warsaw was an absolutely unexpected gem during my trip to Europe this past July. I can’t recommend the city enough.
A visit to Krakow, Auschwitz, and the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
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One of the real pleasures of solo travel is that a solo traveler can perhaps more easily decide to, say, go to a cheeseburger joint on his last night in Paris instead of seeking out more elevated cuisine. When that cheeseburger joint is located in a cool, quiet neighborhood and is ranked #6 among the 14,446 restaurants in Paris, it’s an even easier choice. When...
Four years ago, on a tour to see the interior of a dormant volcano in Iceland, I met a couple from Poland. After they expressed their admiration for Montana (I believe Legends of the Fall was their film touchstone), I mentioned that I wanted to visit Poland someday. The two men from Krakow told me that I absolutely should, but that there was no particular reason to...
With extra days planned in Vilnius for no other reason than that Captain Ramius had spoken so highly of the city and a cheaper plane ticket to Poland if I waited, I had originally planned to spend five nights in the Lithuanian capital. While I absolutely enjoyed the city, a fellow traveler spoke highly of coastal Klaipeda and a tour guide said that I needed to spend...
My entire knowledge of the Baltic states before I arrived in Tallinn could be summed up as follows: I knew the captain of the Soviet submarine in The Hunt for Red October had fished in the rivers near Vilnius when he was a boy, I knew that one of the cities would be having a medieval festival when I arrived, and I had some knowledge from scanning over my Lonely...