"I am sitting in a high seat in a dark East European forest in the snow, waiting for the wolves - very cold it is too, and these words are forming like snowflakes in my head largely because there is not a lot else to do. It’s like being in a..."
The Best Travel Writing About Poland
In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about Poland and general Poland travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...
Articles about Poland
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Where the Wild Things Aren't: Wolf Watching in Eastern Poland
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Ben Mallalieu
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Poland
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Eastern Poland
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Warsaw
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On the Amber Trail
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Diane Bracuk
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Poland
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Baltic Coast
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Gdansk
"Inside a tall, leaded glass window, a grandiose galleon, made from hundreds of pieces of amber, sets sail, redolent of the times when Gdansk was a major port on the Baltic Sea. A few doors down, hanging in a modern, more modest glass case, is a..."
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Going the Whole Hog in Warsaw
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Diane Bracuk
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Poland
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Eastern Poland
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Warsaw
"“Is that what I think it is?" I ask the young waiter at Warsaw's Chlopskie Jadlo. He shrugs, blasé, no doubt used to the North American reaction to the complimentary appetizer he has just set before me. It's a hunk of rye bread on a..."
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Poland: Poster Child for Free Expression
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Diane Bracuk
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Poland
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Eastern Poland
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Warsaw
"Poland has its share of grand museums housing the requisite canvases of historic battles and portraits of heroic, ill-fated counts. But tucked away on the sumptuous grounds of Warsaw’s Wilanov Palace, is a source of real national pride, a former..."
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The Warsaw Uprising Museum
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Diane Bracuk
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Poland
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Eastern Poland
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Warsaw
"Prickly, passionate, patriotic—a preponderance of words beginning with P have been used to describe Poles. Most applicable, however, is proud. Printed on the observation tower of Warsaw’s Uprising Museum is one of the proudest P’s ever—the Kotwica,..."
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Once Shabby Warsaw Steps out in Style
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Diane Bracuk
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Poland
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Eastern Poland
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Warsaw
"Warsaw “How many shoe stores have we passed in the last five minutes?" I ask my niece Brittany. "I dunno. Five? Six?" We're standing on the first floor of the mother, or should I say the matka of all shopping malls—..."
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Poland's Mountain Chapel
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Campbell Jefferys
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Poland
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The Tatras Mountains
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Zakopane
"The rocks were slippery from the morning mist, but the local nuns were not having any problems. To say they were as sure-footed as mountain goats would be true but certainly not very flattering, appearance-wise. If anything, the nuns were cutting a..."
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Gdansk
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Neville Walker
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Poland
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Baltic Coast
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Gdansk
"I approached Gdañsk with some trepidation, wondering if it could bear the weight of expectation generated by its glorious mercantile past and by the wonders I’d seen in other Hanseatic towns along the Baltic’s south coast – Wismar, Stralsund, even..."
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Poznan
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Neville Walker
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Poland
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other regions of Poland
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Poznan
"A little over a year ago an old Bechstein baby grand arrived in my home, its journey from a factory in 19th-century Berlin to 21st-century London a long, complex and only partly understood saga. I lifted the lid to discover the dealer’s mark: ‘Aus..."
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Campbell Jefferys
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Poland
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Krakow Region
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Krakow
"The cat scampered along the side of the ditch, its coat shiny black from the morning rain. I followed, stumbling over mounds of weeds and sinking my shoes into spongy mud. Every few metres the cat stopped and twisted its head around, focussing its..."
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