I decided to head over to go to the sprawling Łazienki Park. I had walked there before, and realized that if I walked round trip, I wouldn’t have any energy left to walk about the park. I checked out Google maps and saw that I could take the 17 tram, connecting to the 10 tram,…
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I am a retired Merchant Mariner, a retired Marine Surveyor, and a currently active novelist. I am starting this blog to follow my life in retirement, as I follow a more inconvenient life.
Walking, riding, drinking, and eating in Warsaw: June 16, 2019
I have been avoiding museums lately. There is only so much pain and suffering this country has gone through that I can take. I have been passing what time, when I am not on the computer, out walking around the parks and neighborhoods of the city. More than museums and cemeteries, this city is filled…
Eating Around Warsaw: June 6 – 9, 2019
To be perfectly honest, I am getting tired of living in Warsaw. I am ready to move on, but there is another month to go before I leave. This is not the first place I have lived at that has bored me after two months. When my social security kicks in I am going to…
Real International Pancakes!
I still find Polish food to be very good, even though I am getting bored with Warsaw. The Carrefour down the street has a potato pancakes. I used to love going to the International House of Pancakes and getting the potato pancakes with applesauce and sour cream. I stopped going there when they stopped serving…
No, I don’t answer my phone!
An interesting thing happened the other day. I got the voicemail message below. My first reaction was that it must be a scam call. I deleted it, then started to worry. It sort of bothered me because, there is always the chance that in the hubbub that my life has been for the last year,…
Reviewing My Bucket List
As a child my bucket list was easy: I just looked at the map and said, “I want to visit that pink country, the blue one over there, and those three green ones, here, here and here.” When I got older and learned to read, I added historical sites, bitterly disappointed that six of the…
1999 Scotland: Part 20, Coming home
Scotland was the first vacation Zane and took together where Zane kept a travel journal. I liked the way that we each saw the same things differently, so rather than blending the two accounts I decided to keep them seperate. It is hard to think, as I am writing this, that it was twenty years…
1999 Scotland: Part 19
Scotland was the first vacation Zane and took together where Zane kept a travel journal. I liked the way that we each saw the same things differently, so rather than blending the two accounts I decided to keep them seperate. It is hard to think, as I am writing this, that it was twenty years…
1999 Scotland: Part 18
Scotland was the first vacation Zane and took together where Zane kept a travel journal. I liked the way that we each saw the same things differently, so rather than blending the two accounts I decided to keep them seperate. It is hard to think, as I am writing this, that it was twenty years…
1999 Scotland: Part 17
Scotland was the first vacation Zane and took together where Zane kept a travel journal. I liked the way that we each saw the same things differently, so rather than blending the two accounts I decided to keep them seperate. It is hard to think, as I am writing this, that it was twenty years…