This morning I received an email from my Polish bank (from when I lived in Poland) and of course the email was in Polish. Recently a new Gmail Labs feature was added that can automatically …

Yesterday I attended the 14th Annual Sausage Dog Parade in Krakow, Poland. Below are the photos I captured of the cute little Dachshund Dogs dressed up in everything from a criminal to the carrier of the king to a footballer! The poor dogs were almost wilting in the 32c …

Last year I showed you some photos of the 13th Annual Sausage dog parade in Krakow. Well according to this website (link in Polish) the date of this years parade is 7th September. Hugh’s Space will be there to take even more photos of the cute little …

Today I saw this laptop in a computer store in Krakow, Poland. Notice anything different about it? Yes, it’s got Ubuntu preinstalled on it. I’ve read about many companies doing this but it is the first time I’ve seen it in a shop …

July was a busy month. I had just come back from 10 days at the Baltic coast of Poland and had a days rest before I was jetting off again to Portugal (new country). First we visited Lisbon and stayed there for one night and then Porto for the …

It’s past midnight, so yesterday I went to Nowa Huta which was built as a model socialist city in the 1950s and 60s to house the workers of the Nowa Huta (New Steelworks). Although one would expect the usual mix of grey boring blocks with plenty of socialist architecture …

Last week I went skiing in Zakopane. Having only gone skiing once before I was a complete beginner however after the first day I started doing really well. If you watch the videos of me skiing it may look like I’ve been skiing for years but I assure you I …

Yesterday I went on a trip to Kosciuszko’s Mound in krakow with Maria. This is one of five mounds around Krakow. I plan on seeing the others soon! Below are the Photos and a Video from this outing.

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2007 for me personally has been the year where Linux on the Desktop became a reality but before I get into this check out the videos from my new years party. It turned out to be quite a good start to the year!

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Yesterday evening I came back from a brief business trip to London. When we were nearly at Krakow the pilot informed us that there was snow in Krakow. We started to land and although I wasn’t sitting by the window I could see it was snowing heavily …

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Last Sunday Poland had an election. The main opposition party won a massive victory. Check out the BBC link above for more details. I went to a polling station to see how the Polish vote. It seamed much more laid back than a UK one (for example I was …

Last Thursday I joined Maria, Szymon and Aga for a ‘Croatia Reunion’ in Iwonicz, Poland. Among the highlights of this trip were a salt ‘cave’ that cures all your aliments and seeing the first oil well in the world………with oil naturally bubbling out of the ground still!!