Travel

On both of our trips to Poland, we spent some time in the beautiful primeval forest of Bialowieza in Eastern Poland. The area is only an hour or so from our relatives, so we opted to stay at the forest and took a tour in a horse-drawn wagon as well as wonderful walks on our own. One afternoon we rented bikes and rode through the little town of mostly wooden homes. Every home had a garden in place of the customary lawn. The flowers were beautiful and it was hard to decide what to photograph. We rode up and down the winding roads, stopping often to admire the gardens and wondering what causes such a beautiful tradition to develope. We ended up at a small cafe where we drank sodas at a quaint table right under the warm afternoon sun. We could cot imagine returning to Poland without another visit to this wonderful spot.

Read more: Bialowieza Forest: Polish Bison, Bison Grass, and Vodka

What to do in Warsaw? What to visit during the one day trip? Where to stay, where and what to eat and drink? These and much more questions are answered in a beautifully illustrated guide of Warsaw from the series: Warsaw - Eyewitness Travel Guides.

It is hard to imagine how the publishers could store so much information, beautiful photographs and maps in this relatively small and practical book size: Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.70 x 8.73 x 5.15

The book not only have more than 800 full-color photographs and maps, but it is very easy to use with sections highlighted by different colors.

Read more: Warsaw: Where, How, When, What

Everything you need to know about Poles in the nutshell - is in this book written by Ewa Lipniacka: The Xenophobe's Guide to the Poles. For all that want to date somebody Polish, to understand his/her Polish family or in-laws better and for there who are going to travel to Poland - this book is a right one. It is not only full of practical information but also very interestingly written and full of sense of humor.

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In the middle of June 1997, on a wooded sand dune in Gdansk, Poland, Gabriela Gierlowska spotted a small amber piece with a unique lizard. The surface of the lump was strongly oxidized, mat,covered with a dark grey marsh sediment, and in its shape and size resembled an immature pine cone (rotten cones often accompany accumulations of amber). The cone-shaped piece was 50 x 35 x 14 mm in size, and on its longest side there was a depression filled with black silt.

Read more: Lizard and Other Inclusions in Baltic Amber