After the standard tortuous journey on Polish trains (see previous post), our hotel for the night (Pałacyk Łancut) was an oasis of peace, calm, and tranquility. The dinner of the previous night set expectations too high for a breakfast that was a let down. With only a few pieces of almost stale bread, cheese, ham, [...]

Polish trains aren’t all bad…there are quite a few which are much worse than bad. I know this after 7 hours (400ish kms) in the oppressive heat and confined space of a regional baggage carriage packed with people and their possessions, hurtling (sorry, trundling) towards the south-eastern edge of Poland. Strangely enough, thoughts about Dante’s [...]