Category: Europe 2010
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Checking into rehab
Once again I used the morning on Tuesday to worked on my presentation. We used the bar of the hotel as an office space and yesterday as we entered into the bar we got chatting with Omar and Khalid from Oman. They work for the mounted police and were in Poland doing business. They had…
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Warsaw Uprising Museum
Monday morning we worked on my presentation for the ISAAC conference next week. I finally felt that it was coming together. In the afternoon we went to the Warsaw Uprising Musuem. Aldona accompanied us to make sure we got there okay. It was overwhelming. I think deliberately so. They use a variety of media to…
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Enter through the narrow gate (if you can)
Sunday we got up reasonably early and tidied ourselves up to go to church. We’d found the Warsaw International Church and decided to check it out. The majority of the country is Catholic so it was going to be tricky to find something vaguely familiar. We caught the bus and got there just on the…
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The AAC pizza dinner
Ferg got woken up on Saturday morning by an SMS message from Margaret (our Polish Travel agent) at 10 am. I was still asleep too. We were so sluggish that morning that we missed the hotel breakfast altogether. It finishes at noon! We went out to Nowy Swiat street where there are a heap of…
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Night on the town
On Friday night we went out for dinner with Aldona who is a speech pathologist that I met online through a report she wrote on an Eastern European AAC Conference and also via a recommendation from my friend Meredith from Melbourne who is involved in ISAAC. Ferg and I had dinner with Aldona and her…