Category Archives: PPR

HITCH-HIKING THROUGH GDR AND FISH FACTORY

I’d like to get back in time to my college years in the 60s – 70s. Polish students, unfortunately, weren’t rich. They aren’t always either, but at that time it was a standard situation. They often had to wheel and deal pretty well to make ends meet. Of course education always came as first but […]

HOW I GET TO MURMANSK BY TRAIN FROM MOSCOW

In the times of the Polish People’s Republic, a trip to such a remote corner of the world as Murmansk was possible thanks to cooperation with the Almatur travel agency. I was then a pilot in this office. The Pilot Club Board in Wrocław gave me a trip on the Warsaw-Moscow-Murmansk-Moscow-Warsaw route. It was a […]

OLYMPICS 1980 RUSSIA AND BRAS D’HONNEUR

Recently we have experienced the sporting emotions of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. During the opening ceremony, the Russian team was booed. This case made me think to share my memories of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. As the time passes so quickly, It’s hard to believe that the Games of […]

WAS TRAVELLING DIFFERENT 40 YEARS AGO IN PPR?

Ladies and gentlemen, we live in the times when people travel making use of the possibilities of having various means of transport. There are trips for lonely people travelling to the most remote corners of the world- this is for the courageous and the pretty curly ones. I used to be one of them myself. […]