Od dzisiaj łatwiej będzie nas znaleźć nie tylko poznaniakom pod adresem poznania.com :)

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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Address:
HOSTEL8
Dluga 8/5
61-850 Poznań
e-mail: hostel8@tutaj.com.pl
mobile: +48601304921
skype: aheadcorp

I am not sure which books backpackers carry with them these days so this list may be a little out of date.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

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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.

1. W Hostelu8 przyjmujemy wyłącznie gości z rezerwacjami.
2. W Hostelu8 nie przyjmujemy gości "z ulicy"
3. W Hostelu8 panuje zakaz spożywania alkoholu.
(człowiek porządny pije na mieście :)
4. W Hostelu8 panuje zakaz palenia tytoniu.
(od tego mamy podwórko :)
5. W Hostelu8 każdy czuje się jak w domu.
(bo ma własne klucze i jest niezależny :)
6. W Hostelu8 można przez całą dobę napić się darmowej kawy i herbaty.
(bo tak nam się podoba :)
7. W Hostelu8 można przez całą dobę korzystać do woli z darmowego, bezprzewodowego internetu.
(bo tak powinno być wszędzie :)
8. W Hostelu8 spędzisz spokojnie czas
(bo patrz powyżej :)

Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero, is a 1968 independent black-and-white zombie film. Ben (Duane Jones) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse.

George Romero completed the film on a $114,000 budget, and after a decade of cinematic re-releases, it grossed some $12 million domestically and $30 million internationally. On its release in 1968, Night of the Living Dead was strongly criticized for its explicit content, but in 1999, the Library of Congress placed it on the National Film Registry as a film deemed "historically, culturally or aesthetically important".

Night of the Living Dead was cited by many as being a groundbreaking film, given its release during the Vietnam-era, due to perceived critiques of late-1960s U.S. society; a historian described it as "subversive on many levels". Although it is not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary 'zombie apocalypse' sub-genre of horror film, and it influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype. Night of the Living Dead (1968), is the first of six Dead films directed by George Romero, and twice has been remade, as a film of the same name in 1990, directed by Tom Savini, and as Night of the Living Dead 3D in 2006.

The Film will be presented in the basement of Hostel8 at 20:00.
We will also screen some meshups made by the film enthusiasts :)

As I mentioned some time ago, we started renovating the basements. As always, we try to document the whole process photographically. One of the photos is very surprizing. Is it a nurse? (There is an old, pre-war hospital nearby). You answer for yourself.

Poland is ready for a conference on climate change, to be held in Poznan, western Poland, in December, Secretary General of the UN Convention on Climate Yvo de Boer has said. The conference is to cost some 90 million zloty and funds will be contributed by Poland's the National Environment Protection Fund as no money was assigned for the purpose in this year budget, Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki told a joint news conference with de Boer.

An information meeting of environment ministers from 42 countries will be held in Warsaw in October to work our draft position for the conference in Poznan.

Nowicki recalled that the conference in Poland is to prepare a global deal on actions for environment protection for 2009.

The minister stressed that UN experts assess that Poznan will host 8-10 thousand delegates at the conference that will last two weeks from December 1.

HOSTEL8 gets ready for the conference. We planted some shrubs in the yard :)