Poland has amazing chocolate. Seriously, you haven’t tasted chocolate until you visit Poland or Lithuania. Despite me usually not being much of a fan of vodka, I actually love some of the Polish vodkas.
A night-time exposure over Poniatowski bridge in Warsaw, Poland
Salt mine, Krakow
Warsaw, from the 30th floor terrace of the Palace of Science and Culture
A large solar flare resulted in a slight possibility of the Northern Lights being visible over Northern England. We set out for some hills near Blackburn to find a high vantage point with minimal light pollution, in the hope of catching the plasma display.
Cloud cover (predictably) prevented this, but it was an entertaining trip and not a total loss on the photography front:
I was even tempted to get myself in a picture for once:
Unfortunately, Blackburn is not one of the classier areas of the North – these nice astro-photography sites also seem to double as dogging/affair sites, so most pictures were interrupted by car lights and what not… This provided its own amusement though – when people asked us what we were doing (bear in mind we were carrying cameras), I told them that we were “paparazzi on vacation”. This got them to pack up and leave pretty quickly 🙂
