Category Archives: Personal Blogging

Personal Blogging

Preparation and process (a common sense discussion)

Introduction

I’m by no means an expert in anything mountaineering related, but over the years, I’ve been able to pick up a few useful things that make now the difference between a critical situation and just tolerable discomfort.

What I am surely no capable of is teaching stuff properly to others (as opposed to a few subjects in Engineering I can claim with sincerity I am qualified enough). I lack … read more

Visiting Kraków, Warszawa, Poznań

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Cities and places
   2.1. Kraków (Krakau)
   2.2.Warszawa (Warschau)
   2.3.Poznań (Posen)
3. Genealogy
4. Epilogue

1. Introduction

My mother’s parents are from small towns near Wrocław, a city in Lower Silesia that belongs to Poland since 1945.

My grandparents met in the mid-1930s as my grandfather was working as a butcher in and around Breslau (what was the German name of Wrocław, German … read more