Sailing From Iceland to Greenland

Nashachata II photo taken from Reykjavik Harpa (concert hall).

After one and half year of pushing the frontiers it was high time to go back to traveling. This time I decided to sail from Reykjavik (Iceland) in direction to Narsarsuaq (Greenland) on the boat Nashachata II. We will departure in few hours. You can check our current position on the Concept Sailing website.
After sailing we plan to hike in Greenland. I guess the update on the trip you can expect in three and half weeks after my come back on line.

Photo presentations

Below you will find three photo compilations from my trip.

First Ever Photo Exhibition

My first ever photo exhibition is taking place in my favorite pub in Lodz - Foto Cafe 102. Info about the exhibition in Polish as well as photos from Vernissage you will find here. The atmosphere in this pub is very unique and I think is a perfect place to display photos. It is a dark pub and all photos are illuminated by a special lamps.
Photos are displayed there till 18.04.2012. So hurry up and enjoy.

Slide shows!!!

It is high time for my public travel sideshows. I would like to share with others my adventures, stories and experience. I will illustrate my presentation with my photos. The most importantly I hope that I will manage to encourage or to inspire at least one person to travel. World is extremely fascinating, and backpacking is a great way to explore it. The most difficult step is to start, despite it is very simple. One have to just decide to put up an rucksack and start... follow your dreams...
I will give my presentation in Radom, Łódź and Warszawa. You are very welcome to come. Those presentation will be hold in Polish.

Merry Christmas and a few words about my plans.

First of all I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas.
For 13 months I traveled through Asia and Latin America and it was incredible time. I learnt so many things. This was my school of life, or maybe even second PhD in Life. I seriously appreciated the possibility to broaden my horizons so dramatically.

For the Next Year I would like to wish you that you manage to:
- broaden your horizons
- wake up often with a smile on your face
- meet wonderful and good people on your way
- and continue walking on the happiness path.

And now I will tell you a bit about my future plans.
Now I am back home in Łódź enjoying the time with the family. But first of February I will move to Germany to Heidelberg. Where I will study leukemia, CLL in German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). I hope some of you will manage to visit me in Heidelberg :)

Finally, coming back home to Poland.

I was already in Europe for ten days but no-one knew in Poland that I am back. I continue my surprise rout. First I went to Przesiaka in Polish mountains where my sister and my mother were staying. Together with them I went home to Łódź, where I surprised my father and my grandparents. Few days later I surprised my other grandparents and finally I showed up by surprise on the birthday party of one of my friend. And then finally I organize welcome surprise party for the pipette. Welcome home pipette.

Dresden, my second home.

Finally I reached Dresden, my second home. I was able to surprise and meet most of my friends here. Dresden, Dresden, sweet home.

Hitchhiking accross Europe

My "towel" hitch.

After seven months in Latin America I landed in Brussels. Here I met two my friends: Vinciane and Agnieszka. In Brussels I stayed only one day I decided to hitchhike from Brussels to Heidelberg, where I stayed with Mathias for one night. After another hitchhiking day I reached Dresden. My last few hours to Dresden I traveled with the girl. We had a very interesting conversation, but one of her questions was incredible. She asked if I am a serious hitchhiker, if I have a towel!!! This was reference to Douglas Admas book, Hitchhikers to Galaxy about which I mention in my second post on the blog, where I was saved by a towel!. Incredible.

Sudden decision ....

Palenque

From Yachxilan I went to Palenque, another Maya side. The second day in the morning I had a feeling that .... it was time to go back home...
I went to Internet cafe and looked for flight ticket home. I found one cheap option from Cancun to Brussele by JetAirFly in 48h. Cancun is located only 12h bus ride from Palenque. I thought a bit about this and not telling anyone about my plans I bought it and in the evening I was already in the night bus.
I did not plan to come back already but this was an impulse. I had a feeling that it is time for me to come back, so I did it.

Hitchhiking to Maya ruins.

Yaxchilan

From Commitan I decided to hitchhike in direction to Tonina, Maya ruins. And indeed it was an impressive Maya ruins. But my next destination was more challenging to reach - remote Maya ruins called Yaxchilan. I had two possible ways to get there. One I had to go back to Commitan and travel around on the main road or try to go on a side road. It was impossible for me to predict how often there would be a mean of transport on this side road, but it means .... adventure :)