It's Saturday, September 20th, 2025, I'm in Łódź and today I'm off to the Włocławek Rock Festival. Outside the sky is blue and there is a warmth in the air. I went out for a short "walk around the block" before breakfast. The streets of Łódź are very much in a grid layout in this … Continue reading Łódź, Włocławek, Łódź, Poznań, Łódź. Part 2.
It's not you, it's me…I just haven't been in a writing mood lately, there you have it, sad but true. Anyway, let's go back to September, shall we? I'm catching the 10:00 Metropolitan Line train out of Chesham to get to Liverpool Street station and thence to Stanstead Airport to board a flight to the … Continue reading Łódź, Włocławek, Łódź, Poznań, Łódź. Part 1.
It's been a while since I was in Poland, a country that I had come to regard as a sort of second home, not that I'd been living in the country, but I just felt at home when I was there. I'd started going to Poland to attend concerts and continued to go to attend … Continue reading Powrót do Polski.
Red House, The Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing, Hey Joe, All Along The Watchtower, Voodoo Chile, Purple Haze, all the hits were there, the only fault I could mention was the omission of The Star-Spangled Banner but maybe Prez. Trump has put a moratorium on that version – who knows?
We went to see Steeleye Span in concert at Chesham's Elgiva Theatre the other night, a small group of us. It was a fantastic concert. I didn't take any photos - yeah, I know, if there aren't photos on Facebook (or WordPress) then it never happened, right? I didn't take any photos because I was … Continue reading Below the Salt, above Expectations.
Ostrzeszów is a town in the mid-south and west of Poland which has been extant since around the 1280s. In the 1300s King Kazimierz III The Great had a castle built in the town to serve in both a defensive and administrative role. The castle was essentially a rectangular brick enclosure, 27 metres by 39 … Continue reading Baszta ProgFest, Ostrzeszów, 2019
Come to Gdańsk they said, it’ll be fun they said.Part 2, in which I go to Gdańsk and then to Łódź.Adventures in Poland, Polish beer and Polish progressive rock. I intended to write this, and its predecessor, Come to Gdańsk they said… Part 1, a lot closer to the time when these events happened, while … Continue reading Come to Gdańsk they said… Part 2
Come to Gdańsk they said, it’ll be fun they said.Part 1, in which I go to Poznań and Wrocław then back to Poznan.Adventures in Poland, Polish beer and Polish progressive rock. Thursday 17th October, 2019. 07:31 train out of Chesham, back on that strange conveyor belt;Chesham - Liverpool Street Station.Liverpool Street Station – London Stansted … Continue reading Come to Gdańsk they said… Part 1
September 2018, I'm flying to Kraków, my bag is packed, I only have to get myself to the railway station and get on a train thus committing myself to the conveyor-belt that will deliver me to southern Poland. Most of the day before and well into the night it was very windy but now the … Continue reading From Albion to Albion
Well, here's a thing… I started to write this much nearer the time it happened, back in November last year (2017) but, as I so often do, I wandered off-topic and produced a sprawling piece that even I couldn't understand and shelved it. A few days ago I went back to it and took … Continue reading Music, drinks, people, flamingos – it happens in Łódź…
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey, and Other Stories. 