Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Preparation for Baltic Adriataic Run

Went shopping at the weekend and bought a new Salomon XA 20 backpack. The last one served me well for more than a thousand rugged miles and nearly two years of daily usage. I did look around but I couldn't see anything to compare with it in the 20 litre capacity class.
I got the bag from Field and Trek in Maiden Lane so it was a short walk to Stanford's in Long Acre. Stanford's is the biggest map shop in Europe, reportedly. At any rate it's big. Maps of all kinds for all over the planet, travel books, guide books, funky travel bits and pieces. There's a coffee shop too.
But I was looking for maps of that middle bit of Europe I'm going to be traveling through. I'm pretty sure I want to start in Kaliningrad and go south through Poland. But I've never been to Poland and don't really know anything about it so I haven't a clue what route would make sense.
I bought a general road map of Poland and countries to the south and a camping map of Poland.
What I need to do is talk to as many people as I can who have done any trekking or general traveling in Poland.

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