I went away to Morocco over my birthday, we stayed mainly in Marrakesh but we did spend one night in the Sahara desert which we traveled on a Camel to get to. We also spent my actual birthday at the coast but due to the coach breaking down on the …

I have lost some money….not because I was careless and dropped it somewhere, nor did I get ripped off by a dodgy trader. The money was just sitting in my wardrobe waiting for my next trip to the Eurozone. Because of the weakening Pound, my Euros have lost value and …

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 …

Yes it is that time of the year again when I get a little bit older and a little bit wiser! Today on my birthday I went to Slovakia which is only a 3 hour coach journey away from Krakow. Maria and I went skiing and I had the most …

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!

January
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Below is my travel map. As you can see I have only been to 8% of the world. Time to get travelling I think…….

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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!!

I arrived back safely from Kiev, Ukraine a few days ago. I just want to thank Eugene for keeping me safe and showing me around. Kiev is a city of two half’s. One side you have awesome monuments that are clean and well maintained and then in the areas tourists …