I’d say I have a bit of unorthodox approach to illnesses affecting me: as long as I can keep myself upright and walking, the latter is my treatment along with taking prescribed pills. It was the same this time round. The route of choice was a circular walk marked yellow, starting in front of ‘Dom Turysty’ Hotel in the centre of Żagań.…

Usually I start a new walking season by climbing a relatively easy hill. This year however I’ve broken that long-standing ‘tradition’, for one, very simple reason: I’m on my holidays in a place far from any substantial hills and with very limited means of travelling.  But this area isn’t short of walking possibilities. One of the longest is the green path running…

I’ve been commissioned with finding a route from Tomintoul to the Hidden College of Scalan in the Glenlivet area. Obviously I started with printed maps and Google Earth, and produced something looking relatively simple and straightforward. Then there was time to try it out. After weeks of winter storms the forecast was so good that I decided to give it…

My home town was part of Germany to the end of World War II; after the war Poland as a country was ‘shifted’ westward as a result of the agreements between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. In such a way previously eastern frontiers of Germany became western frontiers of Poland. During World War II Nazis built a massive POWs camp a…

This route was my second choice, as I lacked will-power to climb the hills. It was very pleasant, undemanding, though a long walk. It led to the remains of Balvenie Castle, Glenfiddich Distillery and then, from Dufftown Train Station, along the old (dismantled) railway to Craigallachie and along the river Spey to Aberlour. Practically all the time it was going…