Magiczne Miasta: Top 6 Backpacking Sights in Little Kokoszkowy, Rural Charm of Kociewie

Magiczne Miasta: Top 10 Backpacking Sights in Little Kokoszkowy, Rural Charm of Kociewie

Posted on May 23, 2017February 6, 2022 by Jonny Blair

“Oh, it’s like an animal farm, lots of rural charm in the country. He’s got morning glory and life’s a different story” – Damon Albarn (1995, Blur’s “Country House”). When you wander through nonchalant, unknown, yellow, rapeseed oil fields on a hot and gorgeous day in a Poland spring, you can feel the joys of life Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Top 10 Backpacking Sights in Little Kokoszkowy, Rural Charm of Kociewie[…]

Magiczne Miasta: Backpacking Beautiful Biskupiec in Warmia-Masuria Province

Posted on January 19, 2017February 3, 2017 by Jonny Blair

“I’m back. Live Forever” – Liam Gallagher. Undoubtedly my reasons for making Biskupiec my first travel adventure of 2017 and my first ever live blog on Northern Irishman in Poland were selfish, passionate and grown out of depression. I wanted to see if I could still do it. Do what? Be a cool tourist, be Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Backpacking Beautiful Biskupiec in Warmia-Masuria Province[…]

Magiczne Miasta: Backpacking Beautiful Bydgoszcz, the “Venice of Poland”

Posted on January 16, 2017August 28, 2018 by Jonny Blair

“But now unforgiven, the everlasting, everlasting” – Nicky Wire. An Autumnal air greeted my spontaneous arrival into the city of Bydgoszcz. I saw this as a place to relax by the tranquil canals and a city without the obvious tourism boom of Krakow, Gdańsk and Warsaw. The generic hat-trick – the usual suspects. Game’s over Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Backpacking Beautiful Bydgoszcz, the “Venice of Poland”[…]

Magiczne Miasta: Poised for Pretty Poznań

Posted on January 9, 2017September 6, 2022 by Jonny Blair

You’ll probably know that when I travel to a city or town in a country, I like nothing better than banging out a top 5 hit parade on backpacking sights. In most cases, we only visit these cities once in our life, so make the most of it and enjoy the highlights as a tourist. Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Poised for Pretty Poznań[…]

Magiczne Miasta: Exploring Peaceful, Pleasant, Holy Pelplin

Posted on January 5, 2017April 16, 2017 by Jonny Blair

“In my hour of darkness, there is still a light that shines on me” – Paul McCartney. My “Magiczne Miasta” (Magic towns) series takes me all over Poland to cities, towns and villages to write first hand accounts of them. Pelplin is gorgeous and was one of my holy summer adventures here in Poland, I visited Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Exploring Peaceful, Pleasant, Holy Pelplin[…]

Magic Miasto: Top Twenty Three in Untouristic Tczew

Magiczne Miasta: My Time Touring Historic Tczew

Posted on January 2, 2017June 1, 2020 by Jonny Blair

On this website, I review my trips to “Magiczne Miasta” (magic towns) in Poland, stretching my travel dream to cities, towns, villages and remote settlements to benefit and boost my Northern Irish smile, to hopefully endear you also to this country – Poland. When you tour cities you have never heard of, your journey Read more about Magiczne Miasta: My Time Touring Historic Tczew[…]

Magiczne Miasta: One Night in Tiny Rywałd in Pomerania

Posted on December 30, 2016October 15, 2021 by Jonny Blair

When I was touring Pomerania in Summer 2016, I ended up in some truly obscure spots that other tourists simply were not going to. Life was up and down and I was settling into Poland with some confusion. I was let down by some friends initially in this region but it didn’t really affect my normal Read more about Magiczne Miasta: One Night in Tiny Rywałd in Pomerania[…]

Northern Irishman in Poland back in Starogard Gdanski

Magiczne Miasta: Top 25 Charms in Starogard Gdański

Posted on December 28, 2016October 17, 2021 by Jonny Blair

Magiczne Miasta/Magic Towns is my series that brings you a genuine real life foreign tourist backpackers account of Polish town, village and city life. This place, Starogard Gdański in Pomerania Province, left quite the impression on me. Just look at its pretty square! Starogard Gdański – I headed here after my time in the beautiful Read more about Magiczne Miasta: Top 25 Charms in Starogard Gdański[…]