BOO!

I remember the first Halloween I experienced in Canada in the mid-1970s. I took my little sister trick-or-treating through the streets of our neighborhood in East Vancouver. I was amazed at how different this western holiday of Halloween was from our Polish All...

55 years – the resurrection of an old illustration

In my second blog “Under the street light”, I’ve written how I started collecting Janusz Christa’s strips from the newspaper Wieczór Wybrzeza. The story that Wieczór was publishing then, was one of his longest-ever Polish comics, “W kosmosie”. For me, this...

We’re starting again!

Now relaxed and rested, I am ready to continue the tale of my Spirit Journey. The last seven months on the road have been a blast; feeling the wind in our hair again (forgive me, Koko) and the sun on our skin was intoxicating! The familiar, carefree way that had...

Tasmania!

We are getting to the end of our holidays. Seven months on the road, how fast it all went!  Incredibly, the most surprising part of this journey came at the very end, once we set our feet on the island of Tasmanian. What was so familiar (?), we all wondered. Was it...

Mount Kosciuszko

In the early part of eighteen hundred, little was known of the interior of Australia, as very few foreigners had ventured into the center of this enormous continent. Yet one man, Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish nobleman, geologist, and notable explorer, did just that,...

Wandjina rock art

The Aboriginal people of Australia had been creating rock art for millennia. Okra paint was used to paint on rocks, and so archeologists have been able to date some of the oldest rock art to as far back as 60,000 years ago. The caves in the Kimberly hold some of the...