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General Government of Warsaw (section I)
12021-01-19T10:45:19-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5920Guidebook tagplain2021-01-27T17:10:56-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5The office of the general-governor of Warsaw was created in January 1874. Between 1815 and 1874, the territory was known as the Kingdom of Poland - a partially autonomous area of the Russian Empire. The change in status was a downgrade (in terms of autonomy) and a step closer toward full integration into the imperial state.
12020-10-26T22:34:45-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Route 1. Berlin via Alexandrovo to Warsaw54Guidebook itinerarygoogle_maps115652021-01-22T12:10:41-05:0010/10/2020 15:40 - 10/102020 17:54Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-19T12:35:49-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Route 2. From Breslau to Kalisz and Warsaw12Guidebook itinerarygoogle_maps2021-01-21T13:27:24-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12021-01-20T09:42:52-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Route 4. Warsaw and Environs1plain2021-01-20T09:42:52-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
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12020-10-26T22:52:50-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Alexandrovo66Baedeker calls the rail station restaurant "fair," but I am not hungry. I am mildly intrigued by the branch-railway that leads to Ciechocinek - a watering place with a wharf on the Vistula.plain2021-01-19T10:45:22-05:0010/10/2020 17:5452.87659, 18.69345Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-10-27T00:55:43-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Nieszawa27A 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.plain104132021-01-19T11:55:57-05:0011/11/2020 16:1052.83452, 18.89921Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-10-27T01:45:44-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Włocławek26This 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.plain2021-01-19T13:35:34-05:0011/11/2020 16:1852.64817, 19.0678Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12020-10-27T01:51:28-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Kutno7A town of 15,200 residents on the Ochnya River. I dozed while we passed it.plain2020-11-11T16:23:24-05:0011/11/2020 16:2052.23064, 19.36409Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
