Poland 2005
Departure from the Lyonnaise region at the end of the afternoon passing through Besançon, stopping for the night in the Fessenheim area.
Saturday July 23, 2005:
Sunday July 24, 2005:
Europapark day (very beautiful leisure park with German rigor).
Monday July 25, 2005:
Crossing of Germany to arrive at the end of the day in Prague at the Kotva Branik campsite.
Tuesday July 26, 2005:
Visit of Prague, at the end of the day we take the direction of the Polish border and sleep in a parking lot in Turnov.
Wednesday July 27, 2005:
Passage of the Polish border visit of the wooden church of Karpazc passage to the spa town of Ladek Zdroj (without interest). We will spend the night in a parking lot in the city of Kamienca.We will take the opportunity to taste our first Polish meal and discover the delicious Pierogi (Polish Ravioli).
Thursday July 28, 2005:
We wanted to visit the wooden churches around Dobrzen Wielki but couldn't find them.(At the time no GPS, and yes sometimes good progress) we visit the city of Opole. after reflection we decide to visit the Aushwitz concentration camp, we visit the museum. In the evening, let's stay in the parking lot for the night.
Friday July 29, 2005: 
In the morning we visit the Auschwitz Birkenau camp.Then we join and visit the city of Krakow, a very beautiful city that is really worth the detour. In the evening we sleep in the parking lot of the Wieliczka salt mine which we will visit the next day.
Saturday July 30, 2005:
Visit of the Wieliczka salt mine, the duration of the visit lasts 1h30 with a guide who speaks French and who explains very well everything you need to know about this mine, currently no longer exploited. Then we will join the mountains and the city of Zakopane, this city is very lively with many tourists (mainly Poles) but as often the cities are very animated by many markets where you can find almost everything. We sleep in a parking lot in a field but paying (compromise between camping and parking)
Sunday July 31, 2005:
In the morning we visit the city of Zakopane and have lunch in this city, in the afternoon we continue towards the East. We have difficulty finding a place to sleep but we opt for the parking lot of a church (in Stawecin towards Jaslo).
Monday August 1, 2005:
Passing through Sanok where we do some shopping at the market, we visit the Skansen museum (reconstruction of the old habitat) we continue east through Przemysl, Jaroslaw and like the old one we have problems finding parking, we again we opt for the parking lot of the church of Swosko. We are close to the border of Ukraine, tourists are very rare and we are watched a lot more.
Monday August 2, 2005:
Passage Nisko, Sandomierz (Town of little interest despite different information according to the guides who praised the wholesale market). At the beginning of the afternoon we join Kazimierk Dolny we go to a parking lot / campsite. We visit this very touristy village in the middle of the festival with great weather.
Click on the image for the parking coordinates
Tuesday August 3, 2005:
Visit of Warsaw, always worrying about orientation, we visit the charming old town but small in size compared to Krakow. In the evening we still have difficulty finding a place to sleep so we sleep again in a church parking lot, this evening it will be that of Ostrow Maziolwiecka.
Wednesday August 4, 2005:
We do some shopping at the Bielk Podalski market (mainly souvenirs and some clothes) the next day we want to be in Biallystok for the famous Friday market but the city does not inspire us and decide not to spend the night there. We go shopping in a shopping center (Auchan) then I have the right to a police stop for supposedly speeding (50 € fine is this a PV or backchiche) we will sleep in the parking lot of the village of Korycin.
Thursday August 5, 2005:
Visit and market in the city of Augustow we visit the lake region as well as the city of Gizyvko, a very touristy place, unfortunately the weather is deteriorating and the rain begins to fall. We will spend the night at the edge of a lake we see the intoxicated state of the Poles who consume Vodka in abundance on weekends. 
Click on the image for the parking coordinates
Friday August 6, 2005:
We take the direction of Tomicko at the edge of the Baltic, thinking to find a nice place to spend the night but unfortunately a place of no particular interest we reach the town of Elbag where we spend the night in a parking lot.
Saturday August 7, 2005:
We leave Elbag to visit the Ostrada canal we pass through the Pitcnik, Katy and Buczyniec locks and admire the passage of boats on rails to cross these locks, an unusual spectacle we have the chance to admire this spectacle under the sun. In the afternoon we reach Malborg Castle and spend the night in the paid parking lot.
Dimanche 8 Aout 2005:
We want to visit the castle but unfortunately Monday is the closing day we only visit the exterior. We reach Gdansk, a very beautiful and lively city where a market occupies a very large part of the city.
Monday August 9, 2005:
We continue our journey along the Baltic, passing the cities of Sopot, Gdynia and the peninsula of Hel.
Tuesday 10 to Thursday 12 August 2005:
The rain has been following us for a few days and we cross the border of Poland on Friday to then reach the house.
We had a 22 night stay, we had only 1 night camping.
The wild bivouac poses no worries, no feelings of insecurity Quick access, crossing Germany by motorway, all roads in Poland are of good quality. for parking we only did one campsite and a few paid parking lots but overall parking is relatively easy even if we sometimes had difficulty finding an easy place to park without being too noticed (we have often frequent church parking lots).
For the water supply we did it in the service stations.
We have done many restaurants because the average cost for 2 is 10 €.
A country to discover before the changes distort the authenticity too much. We have driven 6262 km.