Guest Post from Jay in Lublin: Professor Marek and his “Hungry Fingers”

I introduced readers to Professor Boguslaw Marek in the posts on Poland (links attached below).  Bob is a professional colleague of Jay's, and she has kindly provided some background on his work and passion.  His website (which is about to be upgraded) is www.hungryfingers.com.  For all readers who are interested in resources for visually impaired children, …

Travelling in Style: Tatra Mountains Poland/Slovakia

We have had some "interesting" adventures in getting around on the public transport in Central Europe.  Sometimes it seems that the transfer has consumed more of the story than the sights at the destination.  Today is one of those days. Even though Waddy invokes, "We shall never speak of this again," whenever it seems the …

Cracovia (Krakow) Crawl

(Images removed to create space February 2016. GG) Bill noticed that there is a self guided audio walking tour of Krakow, and goodness knows, there is no shortage of city information booths around town. We have no trouble finding where to rent one. Our problem is that being technical dinosaurs, we have never used an …