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Treacle on the Train
Posted 7th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Lublin, Poland: Distance Travelled = 13,293 miles
Evening!
I'm still in Poland, still on the train! I decided that I should revise my language skills, so I read the "pointy at what I want things" book very carefully! We're on the way from Warsaw to the Ukraine, so it's a really really long journey. I had to make myself really comfortable with enough space on the seat! I had a very nice sandwich at Lublin,
but got a bit full after eating the whole thing! It was such a long way that I got a bit bored and tried to explore the cabin,
but got myself a bit stuck. Luckily Dan was on hand to set me free again, phew!
More updates from the train very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle
Leaving Poland
Posted 9th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Przemysl, Poland : Distance Travelled = 14,023 miles
Morning!
I've travelled with my wonderful companions down to a little sommar stuga in Småland. It is quite traditional for Swedes to have a little red house (or stuga) out in the country and this is where we've gone. It's a lovely little house and of course I offered to help in all ways that I could! You can see me watering the plants and breaking up stones with a little fire. Saturday was of course the Swedish national day and so I helped put the flag up. The fourth photo is from a mile stone. A Swedish mile is equivalent to 10 kilometers, so it's quite confusing really, the quarter of a mile is two and a half kilometers! lol! Anyway, I need to do some packing, I'm off to a new country soon, very exciting!
*cuddles*
Treacle
Kotovsk
Posted 10th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Kotovsk, Ukraine: Distance Travelled = 14,361 miles
Afternoon!
My journey southwards is nearly at an end. We're heading for the coast and very very soon we're going to be there! I'm so excited about going to the beach, I just hope I don't get into too much trouble whilst I explore everything...
lots of love
Treacle
Treacle in Odessa
Posted 12th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Odessa, Ukraine: Distance Travelled = 14,466 miles
Morning!
I've finally made it down to Odessa and I don't mind telling you, I was soo hungry. It was a very very long train trip all the way south down here from Sweden. So of course we had a McDonalds. Believe it or not it was quite nice after all the train food! We did a little bit of sight seeing, you can see me in front of the World War II monument. I have feeling you could see monuments like this all over the world. :(
I finally got to see the sea. I was very excited! This is the Black sea, I so want to go to the beach and go sunbathing! I can't wait! To get to the beach you had to take a cableway. I had to hang on really really tightly so that I did't fall off. Quite scary for a little bear like me!
More from my adventure very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle
Treacle goes to the Beach
Posted 13th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Odessa, Ukraine: Distance Travelled = 14,470 miles
Morning!
I made it to the beach! I was so happy. After all our travelling by train down to the south coast it was wonderful just to lie in the sand and sunbath for a bit. This beach is called Arkadia, just outside Odessa city. All the posh people come here, so I felt in very good company. Unfortunately the beach is a very big scary place really and I managed to get myself buried in sand. :( I think bears must be quite unhappy here because I found a poster of a really sad bear. I wonder why he was so unhappy! I was sat thinking about this and feeling a bit hungry on a bench when I spotted anohter poster of Ikra, Russian caviar, so I decided I should try to find some to eat. It's been lovely in the Ukraine, even if I did get buried in sand, better that than sunburn! It's time to leave here now and travel back north again by train. I wonder what adventures I'll have on my way home?
*cuddles*
Treacle
Treacle in Wroclaw
Posted 14th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Wroclaw, Poland: Distance Travelled = 15,172 miles
We've been on the train and have now made it all the way back into Poland again and are in Wroclaw, before the WWII this was actually part of Germany! We stayed in the hostel Babel, which was funny, I thought I should have a babel fish so that I could understand everyone That's the funniest thing about being in foreign countries, it's hard to understand people, but I'm a bear so I don't always need words to be understood! The weather turned a bit wet on us and I had to spend some time inside so that I didn't get wet. That was definitely very boring! More from my adventure very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle
Treacle in Sopot
Posted 15th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Sopot, Poland: Distance Travelled = 15,412 miles
Afternoon!
I've travelled al the way up through Poland and am now in Sopot. The weather luckily has improved and I got to go to the beach again. Hurrah! I love the beach. Luckily I avoided getting buried in sand again, phew! That wasn't so fun. After the beach we went to a restaurant and had a lovely cool drink. It was funny though, there was a man on the table behind who said almost as much as I usually do! More from my adventure very soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle
Treacle in Hel
Posted 18th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Hel, Poland: Distance Travelled = 15,428 miles
Morning!
I'm still on my adventure in Poland and it's been very exciting. We got on a boat and went to the town of Hel. Hel is a 33 kilometer very narrow peninsular, if you look at the map, you'll see how thin it is! You can see that I wanted to get a better view, so I sat on the gunwale, and managed to slip, but luckily I was caught by my good friend Toni and he saved me! Phew, thank you Toni. A close escape there, it wasn't a very good place to sit really. Whilst we were in Hel we saw a stall selling lots of other teddies. Unfortunately I was mistaken for one of the bears on sale and ended up on the stall. I was rescued again in the nick of time!
Because Hel is on the peninsula there are lots and lots of wonderful beaches. I did some nice sunbathing, but I ended getting buried again, beaches are so dangerous! Sigh.
It was soon time to leave though, so I sat and waited at the railway station for a train. More from my adventure soon!
*cuddles*
Treacle
Treacle in Lebork
Posted 22nd July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Lebork, Poland: Distance Travelled = 15,470 miles
Morning!
My adventure continues, on the train as usual and I was left wondering where to go next in Poland? (Thus the scratching of the head!) I was a bit bored really, so I looked at the travel guide to see what would be fun to do next. I thought Lebork looked like good fun, so I got off the train there and went to the bus ticket office to go out and about. Unfortunately it was shut, very annoying! So I decided not to stay in Lebork for very long and left straight away!
Hopefully more fun adventures soon!
lots of love
Treacle
Treacle in Leba
Posted 23rd July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Leba, Poland: Distance Travelled = 15,488 miles
Good Morning!
I've just finished an adventure in Leba, right in the north of Poland. I'd had such a dull time in Lebork that I thought it was time to have a real adventure. Leba is famous for it's sand dunes, so I jumped on a bike and pedalled off 7 kilometers outside the town to see them. The sand dunes really were magnificent, they looked like a desert! Too much like a desert, I walked and walked and didn't take enough water and I got lost and it got windy and I got buried ... again. It was horrible. Luckily my friend Dan rescued me (for the third time) from being buried in the sand and took me me to the town where I could rehydrate myself with an odd raspberry drink and take shelter from the sun.
Phew, that was a close encounter!
My adventures in Poland are nearly at an end, we're on the way home now. It's been brilliant fun though!
lots of lov
Treacle in Gdynia
Posted 27th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Gydnia, Poland: Distance Travelled = 15,541 miles
Morning!
I'm on my way home now. We've caught the boat from Gdynia and are on our way to Karlskrona in Sweden. There wasn't much to do on the boat though, but I kept myself as a busy as I could, I'll let you know all about that later! I've had a really great time in Poland and the Ukraine, but it's nearly time to start planning a new adventure!
Lots of love
Treacle
Treacle in Trouble Once More
Posted 29th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Gydnia, Poland: Distance Travelled = 15,634 miles
Hello!
It's hard to keep occupied on a boat and I managed to get myself in trouble again. I think the pictures speak for themselves. Sigh!
Good job we're nearly back in Sweden again!
*cuddles*
Treacle
Treacle Back in Sweden
Posted 29th July 2009 - travel companion - Dan
Kristianstad, Sweden: Distance Travelled = 15,752 miles
Hejsan!
I'm back in Sweden now, the last leg of this mighty fine adventure. You can just see out of the window of the train that it was dark and rainy, yuck, November weather! I think my next adventure might have to somewhere hot and sunny, hmm... You can see in the pictures that I got a bit bored on the train you can see me with my legs crossed needing to use the little bears room, trying out my scarf in new and fashionable ways and then finally practising my karate moves. It's always good when you're travelling lots to take opportunities to keep supple. So this is the end of this adventure, but I know where I'm going next and it's going to be lots and lots of fun!
I'll be blogging again soon, but I think I might be out of range of a computer for a little while...
Take care.
*cuddles
Treacle