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  Travels


    My travels:

  • 1982/86 - hitch-hiking in Poland.
  • 1986/88 - hitch-hiking in Greece.
  • 1990 - Canada and the USA . From Toronto we reached California, next we went north to Alaska and back to Toronto. (27 000 km)
  • 1991 - Europe - My girlfriend and I hitch-hiked across 11 countries.
  • 1992 - Belarus , Russia - I reached Irkutsk and next Lake Baikal by the Trans-Siberian Railway.
  • 1995 - Scandinavia - My first single-handed hitch-hiking journey. I reached NORTH CAPE. I travelled 10 000 km in 6 weeks.
  • 1996/97 - Australia and New Zealand - I hitch-hiked single-handedly across the whole continent in 4 months doing 24 000 km and 4 000 km in New Zealand.
  • 2000 - New York, Toronto - 2 weeks.
  • 2000 - Germany, France ( Lion ) - hitch-hiking alone for 2 weeks.
  • 2000 - Ukraine and Romania - 3 weeks.
  • 2001 - a landmark year, a new form of travelling starts: by caravan !!! I set off alone to France, Spain and Andorra, next with Gosia we reachPortugal. The whole journey lasts 2 months
  • 2001 - Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg - 1 month. With Aldonka and her 6-year-old daughter Sara by caravan.
  • 2003 - a 100-day journey across theCzech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, France, Andorra, Spain to Morocco and next to Marocco and next toPortugal,Belgium and Holland. The same composition as above.
  • 2003 - Albania - 2 weeks.
  • 2004 - Greece - 2 months. The next trip by caravan, this time to Athens for the Olympic Games.
  • 2005 - Afryca - Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso - in 2 months I travelled 24 000 km.
  • 2005 - Tunisia and Libya - 2 weeks.
  • 2005 - Island - by caravan in 28 days
  • 2005 - Great Britain with Scotland and Ireland - 3 months (almost single-handedly)
  • 2006 - Bosnia (off-road) z www.kilometr.com - 2 weeks.
  • 2006 - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - 2 weeks, alone by caravan.
  • 2006 - Croatia - 10 days on a yacht
  • 2007 - Cyprus - hitch-hiking for 2 weeks.
  • 2007 - Ukraine - one week in May.
  • 2007 - Azja Środkowa - Central Asia - Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and the return trip via countries of Europe - July-September
  • 2007 - China - November
  • 2008 - Ecuador - 1 month.
  • 2008 - Malta - September.
  • 2009 - Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazilian Amazon - from February until July.
  • 2009 - Belarus - a short stay in August.
  • 2009/10 - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay - from December until July
  • 2011 - Congo, the Central African Republic - April/May (2034 km by bicycle)
  • 2011 - Chad, the Central African Republic - August, 2 weeks (deportation from the Central African republic to Poland for not paying an 8-euro bribe)
  • 2011/2012 - Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco(from September, 8 months, including a 26 000 km- journey by bike from Chad to Poland).

List of the summits I have climbed:
(in chronological order)

  • POLAND - Rysy 2499m.
  • AUSTRALIA - Kosciuszko 2228m.
  • ANDORA - Pic de Serrera 2912m. (I climbed it covering the 1500 m difference in levels barefoot!)
  • GREECE - Olympus 2917m.
  • ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND - Ben Nevis 1343m.
  • IRELAND - Carrantuohill 1040m.
  • CYPRUS - Olimpus 1951m.
  • ECUADOR - Chimborazo 6310m ( climbed twice )
  • VENEZUELA - Pico Bolivar 5007m.
  • FRANCE - Mont Blanc 4810m.
  • ARGENTINA - Aconcagua 6962m.
  • BOLIVIA - Sajama 6542m.
  • CAMEROON - Kamerun (Fako) 4095m.

          

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