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 ...
May 24, 2025: Miechowice Wielkie - Rytwiany - 71kms - Rytwiany Hotel Ruth: During the planning stages of this trip our Polish friend Ewa sent a photo of a little painted house and suggested we visit the town of Zalipie. Yesterday we took a cable ferry and a small detour to check it out. The women of the town have been decorating their log houses since ...
A warm cabin with sausages and hand made pierogies May 23, 2025: Krakow - Miechowice Wielkie - 87kms - Kogutowo Agrotourism May 24, 2025 Ruth: I lost sleep worrying about the length of our first day's ride, but as with many of my worries it turned out to be no problem at all. We spent the day on a completed section of the Vistula Cycling ...
May 20th to 23rd, 2025- Cybulskiego Guest Rooms No riding (but a lot of walking) Gordon: Our first flight, the puddle jump from Victoria to Vancouver, was delayed by two hours, so we had to accept a new routing on a Lufthansa flight through Munich. Our bikes didn’t make the transfer at that airport, but in the end we only arrived in Krakow four hours ...