DIRECTIONS

FROM THE AIRPORT:
Buses 48, 59 and special line „L“ will take you to the center of Poznan. All the above mentioned buses arrive at Rondo Kaponiera (Baltyk Stop); Get off there and get onto tram 5 or 13 headed towards Wroclawska (Wroclawska Street). From there walk towards the Old Brewery via Polwiejska street. Hostel8 is located on Dluga 8 Street (first street going left from Polwiejska street).

FROM THE MAIN RAILWAY STATION:
You have to get to the tram station located on Most Dworcowy (Railway Bridge) and take tram 5 toward Stomil (tram destination); Get off at Wroclawska (Wroclawska street). From there walk towards the Old Brewery via Polwiejska street. Hostel8 is located on Dluga 8 Street (first street going left from Polwiejska street).


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I am not sure which books backpackers carry with them these days so this list may be a little out of date. The concept of backpacker books goes back to the days of the hippy trail when travellers would carry such classics as the I Ching, the Tibetan Book of the Dead or anything by Herman Hesse. A backpacker classic should have an element of profundity, preferably mystical -if not it should have cult status or be a statement about who you really are. There is an element of self discovery in setting off - the path to enlightenment, the journey inwards...A backpacker book is not a 'beach read'--the book must be worth the weight and space it takes up and should be reverentially handed on to other travellers or left in a hotel or bus station for another seeker to chance upon.

Here's a snippet of the list:

Patrick Suskind. Perfume

Umberto Eco. Name of the Rose (also Foucault's Pendulum)

Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse

Irvine Welsh. Trainspotting.

Borges. Fictions

Tolkien. The Hobbit (sometimes seen read until it has fallen apart)

Bolano. The Savage Detectives (heavy)

Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code (light)

Maldoror & A Rebours (for the decadent traveller)

Shakespeare. King Lear

The Duke of Pirajno. A Cure for Serpents (for the traveller in Libya)

Di Lampedusa's deathless 'The Leopard'

Tao te Ching

Popol Vuh: A Sacred Book of the Maya

Cormac McCarthy. All The Pretty Horses

Site will include links to song lyrics, previews and news

Associated Press

Oct 21, 2009, 03:16 PM ET
Google Inc. will launch music search pages next week and include ways for consumers to buy songs for download, according to people familiar with the matter.

The music pages will package images of musicians and bands, album artwork, links to news, lyrics and song previews, along with a way to buy songs, they said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the deal before next Wednesday's announcement.

The package is similar to how companies get individual pages for Google's financial news service.

Song previews and sales will be provided by online music retailer Lala and iLike, a music recommendation application bought by News Corp.'s MySpace this month. Song previews will appear in Lala or iLike online music players, and users won't have to navigate away from the search results page.

The effort marks a new way for Google and the recording companies to promote alternatives to Apple Inc.'s iTunes, the leader in song downloads.

Major recording companies -- including Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp. and EMI Group PLC -- pitched the idea to Google a year ago and are cooperating with the project, according to one person.

They will benefit by sharing revenue from song sales with Lala and iLike, while making the discovery, experimentation and buying process simple for people who use Google to search for music.

Although Google won't get a share of song sales, it will collect revenue from advertising that will be shown with the search results, according to the people familiar with the plans.

The development comes as compact disc sales continue to plummet even as sales of individual song downloads are on the rise.

Overall music sales have slid nationwide in seven of the past eight years and recording companies are searching for new ways to tap audiences online and collect revenue from advertising, licensing and downloads.

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The Taizé Community - 32 European Meeting of The Youth - Poznan 28.12.2009 - 01.01.2010

The Taizé Community is made up of over a hundred brothers, Catholics and from various Protestant backgrounds, coming from around thirty nations. By its very existence, the community is a “parable of community” that wants its life to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples.

The brothers of the community live solely by their work. They do not accept donations. In the same way, they do not accept personal inheritances for themselves; the community gives them to the very poor.

Certain brothers live in some of the disadvantaged places in the world, to be witnesses of peace there, alongside people who are suffering. These small groups of brothers, in Asia, Africa and South America, share the living conditions of the people around them. They strive to be a presence of love among the very poor, street children, prisoners, the dying, and those who are wounded by broken relationships, or who have been abandoned.
Over the years, young adults have been coming to Taizé in ever greater numbers; they come from every continent to take part in weekly meetings. Sisters of Saint Andrew, an international Catholic community founded seven centuries ago, Polish Ursuline Sisters and Sisters of St Vincent de Paul take on some of the tasks involved in welcoming the young people.

Church leaders also come to Taizé. The community has thus welcomed Pope John Paul II, three Archbishops of Canterbury, Orthodox metropolitans, the fourteen Lutheran bishops of Sweden, and countless pastors from all over the world.

From 1962 on, brothers and young people sent by Taizé went back and forth continually to the countries of Eastern Europe, with great discretion, to visit those who were confined within their frontiers.

Brother Roger died on 16 August 2005, at the age of 90, killed during the evening prayer. Since then, Brother Alois, whom Brother Roger chose as his successor many years ago, has been the prior of the Community.

Hostel8 w Poznaniu posiada własną saunę, salę audio-video oraz bar, które stanowią uzupełnienie naszej oferty noclegowej dla grup konferencyjnych (szkoleniowych). Przyjmujemy grupy konferencyjne do 16 osób.