Poland Travel Blog

The view from Warsaw.

So this is Lodz.

In the globalization age opportunity is always over the hill and far away. Those who seize it are those who leave.

Television is often a strange window into a culture.

A big day of research travels in Lodz, Poland.

Do places get much better than this?

Talking China’s ghost cities in Poland

Hostels without receptionists? Without security? Without anyone but some lady who comes in once in a while to scrub the floors and change the sheets? Tristan Hicks discovers that flashpacking has been taken to an entirely new level.

Jenna Makowski of Journey Deep writes about the nuanced influence of culture on language, and how it can lead to confusing but amusing mishaps in the process of adjusting to life abroad. “Aren’t you afraid that you’ll be lonely? Or that you won’t have any friends?” my friend asked the night before the flight that would [...]