Podlasian countryside

"Rajsk Kolonia"

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Poland Picture by Dorian Speakman
Travel story: Podlasian countryside

Rajsk
- one of the least famous places in Poland, not in your Rough Guides, and therefore worthy of my blog. For some time we had wanted to go to Rajsk, to visit where the family on Kasia's Dad used to live. Rajsk's recent history (as happens in Eastern Poland) is pretty stark.

We took the train to Rajsk on the surviving line to Bielsk Podlaski and Czeremcha. The train travels at a sedate 30km/h due to the condition of the track, the big SU45 locomtive somewhat under... More