There isn’t a plenitude of tourist trails around my home town. Those few of them I’ve already bagged but one; something classified as a nordic walk, marked with red signs. Only recently I’ve discovered that the trail I’d rather despised is actually pretty long (30 km) and by its sheer length demanding enough. I decided to give it a go…

Sunday was the last day my friends and I spent in the town of Polanica Zdrój. We were to head back home after lunch, so our walk had to be relatively short. Our chosen destination was Castle Szczytnik, about 4 km away. We started at the front of our accommodation and went up the tarmac road for about 5 minutes,…

A couple of my friends, who visited me last summer, promised to take me to a particular region of Poland during my holidays. That promise was fulfilled last weekend. On Friday afternoon we went to a resort town of Polanica Zdrój, a mountainous region south off the city of Wrocław. The next day we travelled to three spots in the…

The town of Iłowa has always been beyond the margins of my ‘mental map of the region’ despite its geographical closeness to my home town. I’ve never been there, and have never had any desire to go there. Somehow something has always put me off. Last summer I was told about a Japanese garden in Iłowa, and learnt there was…

It’s been ages since I visited the town of Żary. If my memory serves me well, it was in the summer 1999. So my bus ride there wasn’t just about reaching the starting point for my walk, but a sentimental journey of sorts. I was pretty impressed by the renewed high street, but the Square reminded me of a miniature of the…