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Forum: Europe

Mar 5th 2020, 1:48 am

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Poland

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Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

I wouldn't think so, Rabble. When I travelled through eastern Europe - many years ago, to be sure - I got by in pidgin German, when English wasn't on the menu. Anything German was suspect there in...

Forum: Europe

Aug 6th 2019, 12:04 am

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Last year ((post #4 above) I told of our entry into what was then the Soviet Union in 1965. Here are a couple more paragraphs of what I wrote about our ten days in Russia. It's relevant to our week...

Forum: Europe

Apr 16th 2019, 9:28 pm

Replies: 35

Poland

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Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Scot: I had a similar experience when I returned to Australia after a year away in Europe. None of my friends were even slightly interested. Indeed, mentioning a foreign city was a real...

Forum: Europe

Mar 23rd 2019, 11:30 pm

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Half of Prussia, anyway; the rest was occupied for years by the USSR, and then annexed; it's now part of Russia - and a thorn in the side of NATO, I would think. Most ethnic Germans in those places...

Forum: Europe

Oct 13th 2018, 3:12 am

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

That castle is magnificent. We never got anywhere near there, during our week's travel around Poland in 1965. I had no idea that part of the world still had a permanent population of ethnic Germans....

Forum: Europe

Sep 30th 2018, 10:30 pm

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Yes, I guess... But people are travelling more than they used to do. Certainly in my time there weren't as many. Is it true that Modern Languages are given a miss these days? I don't know. I wandered...

Forum: Europe

Sep 30th 2018, 4:43 pm

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Well, that's something to tell your grandchildren about. If they're interested... In 1965 I tried to bluff our way out of Czechoslovakia and into East Germany without a visa, but one of the border...

Forum: Europe

Sep 29th 2018, 6:46 pm

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Sorry, Scot: it's a long way off-topic, isn't it? Not much about Poland. Well, serves you right for mentioning Potsdam!

Forum: Europe

Sep 29th 2018, 6:42 pm

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Tooboo - At least with four on board you had a reasonable weight to keep you on the road! When I drove from Hamburg to Berlin in '65, there was only me inside, and I damn near got blown off the road...

Forum: Europe

Sep 28th 2018, 11:54 pm

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Yes, Eastern Europe was fascinating back then, Tooboo - and bus-pass or not, I well remember some of the details of our travels. Here is a sample incident from a note of mine written some years...

Forum: Europe

Sep 28th 2018, 4:17 am

Replies: 35

Poland

Views: 18,169

Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Poland

Mine too, Scot. (I didn't realise you were so old.) Well done! My travelling companion and I crossed into Poland from the USSR on the main highway (at Brest-Litovsk, would it have been?), and stayed...

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