This past week we have been staying at Chojnik Hotel in Southern Poland. The hotel is in the hills of a national park. We are guests of Angloville and have spent a wonderful week conversing with Polish people who want to immerse themselves in English and practice speaking it. Altogether there were 32 of us, half Polish and half native speakers. The native speakers are from all over the world, England, USA, New Zealand, Chilli, Canada and Sweden. All with differen...

We left Germany by train to Linz in Austria and then back up to Prague where we stayed for the night before taking a coach to Wroclaw in Poland. The journey was fairly uneventful. We were supposed to have a half hour wait in Linz, however the German train stopped for 25 minutes just before arriving there which meant another mad dash to get our connection. The coach trip next day was nice and relaxing. The countryside in Czech and Poland seems very similar to...