Poland End to End

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.

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.