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12020-10-27T00:55:43-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Nieszawa26A small town with a 500-year old Catholic church. Baedeker says that the country from here to Warsaw "is dotted with miserable-looking villages." We shall see. I have a sense that Baedeker and I do not always see eye-to-eye.plain104132020-12-15T00:00:23-05:0011/11/2020 16:1052.83452, 18.89921Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-10-27T01:45:44-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Włocławek24This place has history. It was destroyed not once, but twice, by the Teutonic Knights. And just 8 miles west there are ruins of walls and ramparts and moats. I live for ruins. I have been scouring Baedeker for such places and dog-earing the pages.plain2021-01-14T09:34:29-05:0011/11/2020 16:1852.64817, 19.0678Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-11T10:33:06-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Astrakhan (plan)16The plan is arranged in 5 rows and 4 columns. The upper portion shows the surrounding region at a scale of 1:60:000; the lower portion shows the town at a scale of 1:30,000.plain2021-01-14T10:57:26-05:00191446.34968, 48.04076Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-12T13:21:29-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Libau (plan)8The numerals on the plan are explained on page 49 of the Handbook.plain2021-01-14T13:34:07-05:00191456.50474, 21.01085Plan25_Libau_p49.jpgKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-11T10:35:41-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Pyatigorsk (plan)6The plan is arranged in 3 rows and 4 columns.plain2021-01-14T13:39:24-05:00191444.04861, 43.05944Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-11T10:48:19-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Smolensk (plan)5The plan is arranged in 6 rows and 4 columns.plain2021-01-14T14:28:51-05:00191454.7818, 32.0401Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-11T10:49:14-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Tomsk (plan)3The plan is arranged in 6 rows and 4 columns.plain2021-01-14T14:42:50-05:00191456.49771, 84.97437Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-12T12:47:17-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Tzarskoye Selo (plan)3plain2021-01-14T14:47:13-05:00191459.72333, 30.41583Plan67_TzarskoyeSelop187.jpgKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5