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Welcome to my virtual site!

Hello in a space where I'd like to share some of my discoveries as they occure when I'm traveling or enjoying my life in Warsaw, Poland. I hope that the page is going to grow as my travels and local discoveries are hopefully experienced.

In case you are looking for some information on Poland and you can't locate it in vast resources of VT pages you may find it useful to visit the link below:

Poland.pl

My traveling style

No longer a hitcher but it happened some years ago

As much as I love traveling I can't make it to travel as much as I would like to... but I am trying at least once in a while. Lately I've realized that a longer journey happened in my case every 3-4 years.

I still try to maintain my backpacking journey style but I gradually add some more of my backapacker's understanding of 'luxury' to it.

First it was going abroad, later also using the plane to arrive to the destination and right now it is time for renting a car at the destination! I hope it is still far away from the real luxury that I would still prefer to avoid for some time... I wonder what will be the next level of my 'luxury'?

My interests...

The man who really was "on the road"

... include reading good books (almost anything by Kerouac, Vonnegut, Kapuscinski, Singer), listening to good music (including Miles Davis, Bob Marley, RHCP, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Everlast, ADF, TGU and many more, also live), meeting up with friends to chat over a coffee or drink, and more active passtimes like biking, walking (some of my friends wonder why I am so much into wandering around Warsaw?:-), hiking and swimming. I love movies (anything by Coen bros, Spike Lee, most of things with John Malkovitch, anything interesting) and other things that I haven't mentioned here but still enjoy them very much.

Latest "big journey" was around CA for 3 weeks

Looking up the sky

... which included:
- San Francisco (rules! :-)
- Yosemite (loved it!)
- Death Valley and Las Vegas (both make an impression...)
- Grand Canyon (magnificent views!)
- Joshua Tree NP (a bit disappointing but OK in general)
- San Diego (almost as cool as SF)
- LA (a bit disappointig except from the Getty's)
- Ocean Road up to SF (with sleep over in San Luis Obispo) - I have to come back the other way:-)
- SF and Muir Woods, Alcatraz, etc etc - everything really nice:-)

You can see some photos from the trip here.

Regards, G

Intro Updated Dec 28, 2006
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Pawtuxet Mar 13, 2009 at 5:45 AM Report Abuse

Happy, happy birthday! Hopefully the sun will shine in Warsaw today. We're all looking for more sunshine lately. (I will be in Poland in June)
a2lopes Mar 11, 2009 at 7:20 AM Report Abuse

Happy birthday Grzes and many happy returns of the day. Greetings from Lisbon which is waiting for your visit in May for the Euromeeting. It will be fun with lots of vteers from all over.
traveloturc Mar 11, 2008 at 4:16 PM Report Abuse

Happy birthday to you from Istanbul / Turkiye ..I wish that you realize all your dreams ...good luck
GracesTrips Mar 10, 2008 at 10:15 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday, Greg! Hope you have a great day!
Italiana07 Dec 26, 2007 at 6:40 AM Report Abuse

Dziekuje! Tobie tez pieknych Swiat - wiem, ze juz sie prawie skonczyly - nie mialam dostepu do netu:( takze przy okazji jeszcze zycze Ci SPELNIENIA MARZEN W NOWYM ROKU!! buziakow MOC! :))
mary2u99 Mar 10, 2007 at 6:05 PM Report Abuse

Nice stamps. Happy birthday to you & enjoy your weekend:-)
UrbanSpaceman Apr 10, 2005 at 12:15 PM Report Abuse

I love this homepage Greg - fascinating for someone like me who has never been to Warsaw. Zyczymy ciebie wszystkiego najlepszego !
ronaldbarr Mar 11, 2005 at 9:20 AM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday from Ireland. ronaldbarr
howesouthern Mar 20, 2004 at 7:09 PM Report Abuse

Happy Belated Birthday Greg,,,and happy, happy days!!!
Pakistaniguy Mar 14, 2004 at 4:55 PM Report Abuse

Hi Greg ! Nice home page ! Best Wishes, Umer.