East Berlin and traces of the GDR: Alexanderplatz with the TV Tower and Haus der Statistik, the Red City Hall and the Marx and Engels monument, the socialist realist Karl-Marx-Allee…
Berlin’s most interesting parks, gardens, forests and lakes: the Tiergarten with the Victory Column, Viktoriapark, Volkspark Friedrichshain with its Polish memorial, the Gärten der Welt, Britzer Garten, Grunewald and Tegeler…
Rügen is Germany’s largest island, in the far north of the country, with many white chalk cliff formations.
An account of a hitchhiking competition through towns such as Olsztyn – Elbląg – Malbork – Starogard Gdański – Tuchola – Bydgoszcz – Toruń – Golub-Dobrzyń – Brodnica.
Abandoned places in Berlin in 2018–2019: the Institute of Anatomy with its dissection room, Germany’s first commercial airfield Johannisthal, the BLUB water park, Weißensee children’s hospital, plus Spreepark and Teufelsberg…
The Szczecin underground beneath the Quistorp Tower and in other parts of the city, an abandoned mortuary, an artificial fibre factory, old railway carriages and the ruins of a Nazi…
Join me on an 800 km trip around Scotland, mostly by hitchhiking! I’ll take you to Edinburgh, Stirling, Loch Ness, Glenfinnan and Glasgow.
Preikestolen above the Lysefjord: the trail to “Pulpit Rock” in September 2017 and May 2025, getting there from Stavanger by ferry and through the Ryfylketunnelen, hitchhiking and prices.
In this post, together with Michał, we’ll see the main sights of Hungary’s capital, Budapest – mostly along the Danube – as well as Vajdahunyad Castle.
In July 2017 Michał and I also went on a trip that was meant to be done by hitchhiking. This article covers its first 6 days – from Bergamo in…
This time we ended up in the south-west of Ukraine – in the Gorgany Mountains, where we spent two days, climbed Khomiak (1542 m above sea level), among other things,…
One of the main attractions of our trip to Ukraine was supposed to be a parachute jump in Tsuniv, near Lviv. In this article you’ll find practical information and an…