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Prague Vlog #8 – Driving to Prague from Warsaw
Original YT playout date: 16 August 2009
Duration: 21:58
We start off with the battle of the conflicting GPS fembots, and then get into all kinds of traffic in Upper Silesia. Very little of this one actually takes place in the Czech Republic, but you do get to see the border at Nachod.
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Musings from the road at sunset
Original YT playout date: 1 May 2009
Duration: 8:06
Featuring thoughts on applying the GoldList Method to the learning of poety, a presentation of Wordsworth’s “”Daffodils”” and whether man’s release of chemicals into the sky has affected the natural world much or not.
You might say “”why get sidetracked onto daffodils when there aren’t any there?””. Ah, but that’s precisely the *point* of the poem, isn’t it?
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It’s OK for Krapkowice!
Original YT playout date: 30 April 2009
Duration: 46:49
Riding through the countryside of the Opole region in Poland, we take a tongue-in-cheek look at the principles of taxonomy (the scientific names of animals and plants) and then visit a place with the inauspicious name of Krapkowice…
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Drizzly Drive in Wielkopolska
Original YT playout date: 24 April 2009
Duration: 21:23
Just a bit of footage from the road. We drive through Szamotuly, past the cultured gentleman clearing his nose into midair by the road crossing, and on to the old part, and then past the Bolix factory. But never mind that, there’s some nice country driving afterwards.
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Gallery of the West Ukraine countryside (Ukraine series #6/10)
Original YT playout date: 31 March 2009
Duration: 5:50
This is a gallery video, made up only of photos taken on location between Lviv and Rohatyn, with the song “Uzh kak pal tuman” in the background. I am not sure of the performer, if anyone knows please add it in the comments.
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