Karol Wójcicki
Karol Wójcicki
Passionate photographer of the night sky, populariser of astronomy, science journalist and TV presenter. Creator of the largest astronomical fanpage in Poland “With your head in the stars” on Facebook.
He travels all over the world in pursuit of solar eclipses, and spends two months a year behind the Arctic Circle hunting for auroras. At the same time, he loves to lie on the terrace at his home, watching for meteors falling from the sky.
He has turned his passion for astronomy into a way of life. He organised one of the largest joint observations of the night sky in the world (for 12 thousand people) and many other popular science events. Frequent guest on television and radio programmes.
Contributor to Gazeta Wyborcza. Hosted popular science programmes on Discovery Science and TVN Turbo. Teacher of astronomy at Eureka primary school. In the years 2008-2016, he was associated with the Copernicus Science Centre. Currently, he reveals the secrets of the Arctic to others during aurora sighting expeditions.
Winner of the Populizer of Science 2015 award granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Polish Press Agency.
"PodróżoVanie" is Kasia and Lukasz
"PodróżoVanie" is Kasia and Lukasz
"PodróżoVanie" is Kasia and Lukasz
– a close-knit couple who have been living on the road for four years in a van they built themselves. At the beginning of their journey together, they followed a pattern quite familiar in the world of twentysomethings: they went abroad, developed careers, lived in a large and comfortable house and travelled in their free time. However, although they had a lot, there was still something missing, they did not feel fully happy. Deep down, they sensed that life had more to offer them than the pursuit of money or career advancement. In September 2017, they encountered the term ‘van life’ for the first time, and the deeper they went into the subject, the stronger they felt they had to experience first-hand what it was like to live on the road.
As they felt, so they did and a month later, PodróżoVanie was born. The decision was followed by a period of intensive reconstruction – first of their own life abroad, and then, on their return to Poland, of the car they had bought and turned it into a home. With their own efforts, they turned a large van, a Volkswagen LT35, into a home on wheels in just a few months. In May 2018, they settled in it permanently and started a new chapter, living on the road and celebrating freedom.
Since then, they have visited 36 countries, touring the length and breadth of Europe and a slice of Asia. Along the way, they have crossed the Arctic Circle, waved to Africa from the edge of Gibraltar, nearly lost their lives in the Alps, spent one of their first lockdowns on a lake in Portugal and their last in Turkey. They recount these and many other adventures in short vlogs published on YouTube and in recently published books, written on the journey by Kasia: ‘The Great Carriage’ and ‘The Road’.
Their channel features all sorts of advice on van life, car and campervan travel. The total number of views of their videos to date is more than 23 million and the number of regular subscribers is more than 125,000.
You can follow Kasia and Luke’s travels here:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/podrozovanie
Instagram: https://instagram.com/podrozovanie