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Why is long-term travel not for me?

Who doesn’t want to travel? Everybody wants to travel the world and they want to travel long. Or do they? I’d say it’s the most often repeated travel myth. If you’ve heard it many times it might be...

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Injera – delicious Etiopian food.

Injera is an Ethiopian traditional dish. At first glance it looks like a strange huge pancake, but tastes nothing close. How is injera made? This sourdough flatbred is made from teff flour mixed and...

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5 quotes describing the way I travel

We, travellers, are surrounded by the multitude of travel quotes – most of them motivational ones and you probably know many, as they are repeated over and over again. Today, a few quotes that are less...

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Exploring Slovenia on your own – how much does it cost by public transportation?

- You’re saying for six nights? Really? – the receptionist didn’t try to hide surprise in his voice. Well, true. Why? Just before my visit to Slovenia, I heard it was a small, expensive country and...

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Travel and poetry.

Poetry is not something that many people care about. I won’t lie to you that I read it often. I don’t, I feel much better with crime stories, mysteries, shooting, fighting and heroes. Still, there are...

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Simba – the Lion King.

I had no idea I knew how to say ‘lion’ in Swahili – well, it’s so simple! Everybody who’s seen “The Lion King” knows! “Lion” is “Simba” – as simple as that! Photographing lions on our safari was a...

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Safari in Tanzania – Part 1.

Safari had never been on the top of my bucket list. I’d hoped to do it one day, but I kept finding excuses: it costs too much, my camer lens is not good enough, I’d prefer to see mountain gorillas more...

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The Seven Best Countries!

This article expresses very subjective opinions of the author. If you disagree, feel free to leave a comment. I might not agree with you, but I’ll be more than happy to find out what you think! The...

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Authentic travel experience

What exactly do travellers mean when they say they are looking for authentic travel experience? Well, first let’s have a look what the Oxford Dictionary says about the word: Authentic: 1. Of undisputed...

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Safari in Tanznania – Part 2. (Ngorongoro)

At six o’clock we were freezing at the gates leading down to Ngorongoro crater. That day started really early with breakfast at 5.15 and it was a nightmare to get out of my warm sleeping back, but the...

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Safari in Tanzania – Part 1.

Safari had never been on the top of my bucket list. I’d hoped to do it one day, but I kept finding excuses: it costs too much, my camer lens is not good enough, I’d prefer to see mountain gorillas more...

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The Seven Best Countries!

This article expresses very subjective opinions of the author. If you disagree, feel free to leave a comment. I might not agree with you, but I’ll be more than happy to find out what you think! The...

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Authentic travel experience

What exactly do travellers mean when they say they are looking for authentic travel experience? Well, first let’s have a look what the Oxford Dictionary says about the word: Authentic: 1. Of undisputed...

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Safari in Tanznania – Part 2. (Ngorongoro)

At six o’clock we were freezing at the gates leading down to Ngorongoro crater. That day started really early with breakfast at 5.15 and it was a nightmare to get out of my warm sleeping back, but the...

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Find your perfect country!

Working on a post The Seven Best Countries I realised there are so many well-known places I haven’t been to that writing about Best Country for… is a bit difficult to do it on your own. I asked my...

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English is a weird language (Animals)

School. A dog, a cat, a horse… – these are probably some of the very first words that some of pupils learn at school in their English language class (foreign language class, of course). Seems easy...

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The best croissants in the world you’ll find in…

1. In Poznań, Poland. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t put my hometown in the very first place, but there’s a very good reason for that. I still remember when I moved here many years ago and for the first...

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A weird walk – following the footsteps od David Černy in Prague, the Czech...

Art might annoy, irritate, amuse, surprise, bore, encourage, discourage, disturb, connect, divide, provoke, relax, fascinate. The art in urban space is watched as if by accident – it stops you on the...

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Climbing up to see rock churches of Tigray. (Ethiopia part 5)

Dwie osoby ciągną mnie za ręce, dwie popychają od dołu i wreszcie koniec, można po prosu podziwiać widoki. A jest co podziwiać!

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Lalibela – Ethiopia part 6

My travel companions said I demand too much from guides, and it seemed we couldn’t really agree on what’s enough and what’s too much. Why do I actually hire guides? To learn something and if I am to...

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