'I went loopy': the photographer who walked 12,000 miles from Wales to Poland
by Sean O'Hagan from World news | The Guardian on (#3ZD91)
Michal Iwanowski came across some graffiti in Cardiff that said: 'Go home, Polish.' So he did. The 105-day slog almost broke him - but it restored his faith in a volatile, fractured Europe
On 27 April this year, Michal Iwanowski left his house in Cardiff to walk to his home village of Mokrzeszow in Poland. Carrying British and Polish passports and wearing a T-shirt bearing the word "Polska", he began his 1,200-mile journey east, sticking as closely as possible to a straight line he had drawn on a map. Over 105 days, it would take him through Wales, England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic.
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