https://gypsycafe.org/2008/01/08/47/ The Travelosopher's Home Sat, 02 Nov 2019 22:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://gypsycafe.org/2008/01/08/47/#comment-24 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:16:11 +0000 http://gypsycafe.org/2008/01/08/47/#comment-24 😀 I remember Konrad – he never tried to improve his English – he didn’t care. Yeah, I was living in London then (for two years), working in a computer factory and not making much money. Regardless, I decided to go to mainland Europe for the first time, so I planned to visit Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria. I visited friends in Osnabrück and spent some time with their relatives in Berlin. After that travelled to Poland by train – had a great time there and a few challenges too (like buying food or ordering meals and it was impossible to read any signs, except names), because the language barrier was even more profound than the German one – it really “felt” like Eastern Europe – I visited Warsaw, Krakow (+ Auschwitz) and Zakopane but ran out of cash before I could go to Slovakia and had to hitch-hike back to Germany. I spent a couple of nights in train stations and met some interesting Flemish Gypsies from Belgium – could communicate with them in Dutch. Those were the real traveller days…
I still have photo’s in a dusty shoe box somewhere which I might try to dig out – mostly black and white shots – but there might be something to add to the gallery.

]]> https://gypsycafe.org/2008/01/08/47/#comment-23 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:56:49 +0000 http://gypsycafe.org/2008/01/08/47/#comment-23 oh man, this reminds me to Viktor’s brother, Konrad. he used to say all the time “Zoltan, language iz no problem to me”, and he was totally right 🙂 anyways, what did you do in Frankfurt in 97, i don’t get the picture 🙂

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