June 16, 2025 - Krynica Morska to Gdynia - 80 kms - Urban Jungle June 17, 18 and 19, 2025 - Gdynia - Urban Jungle June 20, 2025 - Gdynia to near Elbląg - 90 kms - Zabytkowa Drewniany Dom Z 1887 Roku Before leaving Canada I read an article in the Guardian by Jarodław Kuisz and Karolina Wigura about how Americans can learn from ...
Morning light on Malbork Castle as we set off. June 15, 2025 - Malbork to Krynica Morska - 99 kms (including a 30 km side trip to near the Russian border) - Willa Łysica GPS always works, even without cell. So why did Gordon and I suddenly lose the ability to find out where we were on both our phones? Are we too close to ...
Chełmno June 12, 2025 - Toruń to Chełmno - 64 kms - Apartament CCH June 13, 2025 - Chełmno to near Nowy - 63 kms - Toscania Kociewska June 14, 2025 - near Nowy to Malbork - 64 kms - Hotel Stary Malbork Gordon: Two nights ago there was a guidebook in our apartment about "the Brick Gothic Trail". The town we were visiting, Chełmno, ...
June 9, 2025 - Plock to Wloclawek - 56 kms - Apartament Rena June 10, 2025 Wloclawek to Torun - 64 kms - J&J Apartments June 11, 2025 - Torun - J&J Apartments Ruth: We are mostly following marked bike paths on every surface imaginable from occasional deep sand!?*!? , hard packed clay and beautiful ribbons of asphalt. Our progress is slower and 50-60 kms ...
June 8, 2025 - Nowy Secymin to Plock - 68 kms - Sempre B & B Ruth: Today was such a lucky day, and it all happened on the birthday of my Great Great Grandfather, Johann (John) Gottlieb Gatzke. Johann Gottlieb Gatzke was born on June 8, 1839, in Posen, Prussia, which is now Poznan, Poland. He would be 186 today. Although Poznan is a distance ...
June 5 & 6, 2025 - in Warsaw with Ewa and Tadek. June 7, 2025 Warsaw to Nowy Secymin - Pokoj Kon z Kominkiem - 61 kms Ruth: We were not planning to see Warsaw, but when we heard that our friends Tadek and Ewa were renting an apartment there, we changed our route to go and visit them. Our focus was on a social ...
June 1, 2025 - Lublin - 11 km day ride - Fontana Boutique Apartments June 2, 2025 - Lublin to Kazimierz Dolny - 64 kms - Zamkowa Pokoje Goscienne June 3, 2025 - Kazimierz Dolny to Kobylnica - 63 Kms - Agroturystyka Kobylnica June 4, 2025 - Kobylnica to Warsaw - 93 kms - Ewa and Tadek's apartment Ruth: After leaving the city of Lublin we ...
May 30, 2025 - Zamość to Rybczewice - 67 kms - Apartamenty Mieszkaniowe Kadrena May 31, 2025 - Rybczewice to Lublin - 43 kms - Fontana Boutique Apartments Ruth: In 1848, at age nine, my Jewish Great Great Grandmother Wilhelmina (Mina) Taussig left her home in Prague and travelled to North America with her parents and siblings. Her father, Juda Low Taussig, was a liberal thinker ...
May 28, 2025 - Biłgoraj to Zamość - 55 kms - Hotel Sukcesor May 29, 2025 - Zamość - Hotel Sukcesor Gordon: We are enjoying our first rest day in the attractive small city of Zamość. With the assistance of an Italian architect it was built from scratch as a model Renaissance city starting in 1580. Through good luck it has survived relatively intact to ...
May 25, 2025 - Rytwiany - Sandomierz - 68 kms - Hotel Pod Cizemka May 26, 2025 - Sandomierz - Pikorowy - 52kms - Trzy Stawy May 27, 2025 - Pikorowy - Biłgoraj - 55kms - Hotel Sukcesor Ruth: We have spent our last few days cycling through open fields filled with poppies and bachelor buttons and then dipping into forests on either a track ...