Marco Carnovale

My latest book: Beyond the Wall: Adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle Beyond the Iron Curtain has just been published a...

Synopsis KATYN is the story of Polish army officers murdered by the Soviet secret police in the Katyn forest during the Second World ...

Synopsis Malgorzata et Wojciech décident de quitter Varsovie pour aller vivre à 7000 kilomètres, en Sibérie, à côté du lac Baïkal. Magorza...

Questa relazione si propone di fornire un quadro politico generale della situazione politica in Polonia alla luce della caduta del regime co...

At the end of the month, Georgetown University will be the forum for a unique and unprecedented program. The United States International Com...

We spend the morning in Venice, just showing Cathy the highlights. I have some rubles left and manage to change them, at a very unfavorable ...

We wake up at 8 after a good night's sleep and head out to visit the house where Cathy's father lived before emigrating to the Unite...

We are ready to leave Warsaw at 9:30am. Last pictures together with our Polish classmates and friends. All of them came to say goodbye: Stef...

Andrew and I go to the girls' dorm after breakfast, but they are not there. They were supposed to return yesterday from their tour of Fi...

In the morning we go to meet the Rector of our university. We have a plan: organize a two-pronged student seminar meeting between Georgetown...

Easy day of rest, laundry, catching up with our classmates at the dorm. In the evening I go and meet Marian and Ewa at their place. News o...

Our ferry docks at Gdansk harbor in the early afternoon. It's been quiet sailing, quite different from that of a few days ago from Finla...

Full day dedicated to jumping over bureaucratic hurdles. Pick up passports, fill in forms... We considered buying rubles on the black market...

Back in Warsaw Ann and Cathy want to buy airplane tickets to go to Krakow. Cathy has not been there and Ann wants to show the beautiful city...

Giallina in the Mazurian forest After breakfast we get rolling for Augustow . We arrive for lunch and eat at a totally non descript plac...

Ann rows hard There is a pretty lake nearby and we try to rent a canoe or a row-boat. No chance, they say all their boats are reserved. ...

Late departure after a leisurely breakfast that does not end before 10:30, but yesterday was a long day... Oliwa cloister Anyway we fi...

Get up early and take a ferry to Hel (one "L"). Nothing special, but lost of dogs with no tail roaming around, and tons of dead f...

Gdansk It gets a bit complicated at check-out in the morning because Cathy, who is a visitor while we are "locals" must pay in...

Today it's our designated departure for Gdansk, the old Geman Danzig, in the North of the country, by its Baltic Sea shores. But, of cou...