Malbork Castle Winter darkness still shrouded the streets as we trudged through the centre of Gdansk to the railway station, with a quick stop at a well-lit bakery for coffee and sandwiches to go. An hour on the train passed in a sleep-deprived blur of green fields and grassy embankments that opened into castle views right before we pulled into the station. The red brick bulk of Malbork caste...
Along the Motlawa River I spent a few days in northern Poland between Christmas and New Year. I don’t have time to write it up properly thanks to a flurry of podcast recording and work on a new book, but I want to give you a few brief impressions. Perhaps it will inspire a trip of your own. I blew a big chunk of my savings on a series of long flights in November, so travel options were limited...