Walks · Poland
Real places, told on your phone by someone who was there, as you walk to them.
Free · GPS-guided · works offline · your own pace
Poland · 111 min · 4.3 km · 5 stops
Told by Walenty Krzak
the Głogowa manor's coachman
Five villages on one flat road, told by the manor's last coachman.
Miłonice
“My name is Walenty Krzak, and I drove this road when it was mud eight months of the year. Five villages, one line, and a manor house at the end of it where my wages were counted out. Today you walk it; I never once walked it, I had horses for that. Come. The…”
Dwór w Głogowej
This month: The lindens by the manor turn and drop, and there's woodsmoke on the air from every chimney in Głogowa.
When to go: Morning or late afternoon — this is open farmland with almost no shade, and the road is long between houses.
Głogowa is a small parish in Kutno County, Poland, built around one straight road and a string of villages with little to draw a visitor off it. There is no old town to wander, no monuments to queue for, but there is open farmland, a nineteenth-century manor, and five villages whose names only locals would otherwise know. Walking the road, rather than driving it, is really the only way to notice how one village gives way to the next.
Walk & Tell turns this road into a self-guided audio walk of about an hour and fifty minutes, narrated by Walenty Krzak, who drove this same route by horse and cart as the manor's last coachman. GPS cues move the story along as you pass each village, the app is free to try, and you can download it for offline use before you set out, since there is little else out here to rely on. It suits anyone with a spare afternoon who wants a quiet, flat walk through real Polish countryside rather than a packaged sight — good for a solo walker or a couple happy to bring their own water and shade.
Walk & Tell is a self-guided audio walking-tour app. Walks are free to try; download one for offline before you set out. All cities