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Poland End to End

Łysa Polana to Jastrzębia Góra 570 miles

In May and early June 2019 I cycled the Polish End to End.

You can read daily blog posts for the trip here, from Łysa Polana on Day 1 to Jastrzębia Góra on Day 15 (plus some before and after).

Łysa Polana, my start point, is down on the Slovakian border near Zakopane.

From there I headed up through Krákow, Łódź and Gdańsk to Jastrzębia Góra, where the country’s most northerly point is marked by the monument Gwiazda Północy (‘Northern Star’) — the ceremonial end of my trip.

From the Tatras to the Baltic via Tyskie, Lech, Warka and Książęce. They’re not places. They’re brands of beer.

After Jastrzębia Góra I carried on to the village of Hel at the end of a long sand spit that juts out east from there. That’s right: this trip was a Journey to Hel.

The total End to End distance was 570 miles, and took two leisurely weeks of 40–45 miles a day, on a bike that cost me £80. I didn’t spend much more than that on accommodation or food and drink in the two weeks.

End of cycling Poland End to End at Jastrzebia Góra, 2019
Northern Star. The monument, not me.

Day ≤-1: Tirana (Albania) to Poprad (Slovakia)
Day 0: Poprad
Day 1: (Poprad to) Łysa Polana to Zakopane
Day 2: Zakopane to Kasina Wielka
Day 3: Kasina Wielka to Kraków
Day 4: Kraków to Ogrodzieniec
Day 5: Ogrodzieniec to Częstochowa
Day 6: Częstochowa to Janów
Day 7: Janów to Łódź
Day 8: Łódź
Day 9: Łódź to Strzelce Kujawskie
Day 10: Strzelce Kujawskie to Włocławek
Day 11: Włocławek to Toruń
Day 12: Toruń to Grudziądz
Day 13: Grudziądz to Starogard Gdański
Day 14: Starogard Gdański to Gdynia
Day 15: Gdynia to Jastrzębia Góra
Day 16: Hel
Day ≥17: Berlin (Germany)



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