1. Cross Australia. Spend a day on the Reef. The Great Barrier Reef. Take a ferry from Cairns to 
Green Island. Simply cool. (August/1996)
2. Ride a bicycle over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on a foggy day: just do it ! (April/1998)
3. Visit Bourbon Street in New Orleans. If you can, spend a night in Dauphine Orleans Hotel. Jakub was there. (August/1999)
4. Have a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon with your dinner in one of the harbour restaurants in Colonia San Jordi on Mallorca (Spain) and then have a walk on on the beach there: your soul (and your companion !) will be grateful to you !
5. Sit down on a sunny day on the beach in Białogóra (near Gdańsk, Poland) with your favorite book: pure joy ! (July/2000)
6. Mauritius: write a book, marry someone, drink champagne to your breakfast, forget the world outside. (November/2000)
7. Ski like God in Ischgl. This is a ski paradise on Austrian/Swiss border. Snow is like cocaine. And it is easy to get addicted. I did. (April/2001)
8. Spend a day on the road: The Great Ocen Road. Rent a car or take a day bus trip to south-west of Melbourne, Australia and n-joy the Pacific coast. You will never forget it. (July/2001)
9. Climb with the tramway to The Peak in Hong Kong. See the amazing skyline of the city and stay long enough to experience the skyline of Hong Kong by night.The best view is from the Marché restaurant (while drinking wine !) in the Peak Tower. (July/2001)
10. Get the blues or loose you "hard day" blues at Blue Chicago where the classic Chicago blues is really at home. You might have your best night while in Chicago. I did !!! (28-8-2001)
11. Spend some time in "Pod Jaszczurami" club in Cracow, Poland. Only in Cracow you'll find such places, "the intelectual mood", the history, and the tree leaves that you want to take home with you. (27-10-2001)
12. Visit Vilnius, Lithuania. One of the most impressing Old Towns ever seen by me. And women... Simply beautiful.
(5-5-2002)
13. Listen to the music in Vienna, Austria. Wherever. You don't have to go to the famous Wiener Staatsoper. It seems that even the street musicians
in Vienna are all geniuses. Expect listening to Mozart everywhere. Even in the McDonalds. (8-6-2002)
14. Cruise on a "love boat" alike ship (plushy!) from Fort Launderdale, Florida to Bahamas.
Paradise beaches down there. Really. The natives claim to make the best braids in you hair. (10-07-2002)
15. Drive from Miami along all the Keys across 48 bridges (over the ocean) to Key West, Florida unless you cannot any further (be warned: further is Cuba, 90 miles away from Key West). Snorkel in the lagoon around Key Largo and vist Hemingway Home, at 907 Whithead Street. (12-07-2002)
16. Take off to Tenerife, the most beautiful island within Canary archipelago. There is much more than beaches and pools at the hotels. Drive up to see El Teide (vulcanic mountain, the highest in Spain, over 3700 m). Have a glass o wine at harbour of Puerto de la Cruz. (1-08-2003)
17. There is only one place on the planet where Edith Piaf meets Sarah Bernhardt and Chopin meets (Jim) Morrison while Proust and Balzac are very close to Apollinaire and Oscar Wilde. Amazing place in Paris, Le Père Lachaise, the most historic cemetery in the world. Culture never dies. (2-11-2003)
18. Never changing islamic religion driven tradition right beside high-tech-freaks, designer high heels and burqas, Rolls-Royce and falcon hunting. 360 days of sun per year, white sand (almost empty!) beaches at luxurious hotels hidden in the palm gardens growing up in the middle of a desert. 40 degrees Celsius outside already in Spring. You will find all these in United Arab Emirates. Take part (a must!) in a desert safari and buy in Dubai :-) your next Rolex or Louis Vouitton bag (for half a regular price!). (1-05-2004)
19. Visit Lisbon first (reserve at least two days and two nights). Then rent a car and drive down along the Atlantic coast (the "must" stop is a place called Vila Nova de Milafonte) to the beaches (the most beautiful in Europe!) on Algarve in Portugal. (28-07-2004)
20. Visit Zagreb in Croatia (I did it together with my daughters). Get impressed by the city itself, meet the people, n-joy the the "Polish like", slavic hospitality. (12-11-2004)
21. Experience New York City during the pre-Christmas rush season. Meet New Yorkers (after 9/11 the T-shirts claim "I love New York even more") at the Rockefeller Center X-mas tree (01-12-2004)
22. Explore Barcelona, Spain, taking away from the crowdy (day and night) La Rambla and walking along Barri Gótic streets. (11-12-2004)
23. Save your money and go down to the "forgotten paradise". Even the sky over Seychelles, (pol. Seszele) is bluer than everywhere else. There are 115 islands belonging to this archipelago. Only one and only for one week is not enough. On Seychelles the church clocks beat twice: once sharp on time, second time, two minutes later, for the daydreamers. For me unforgettable time... [ see my diashow ] (08-04-2005)
24. Cruise... From Venice to Venice. In between: Kefalonia(GR)-Pireus/Athene(GR)-Crete(GR)-Bari(IT). On AIDA (www.aida.de) decadent "boat". Lovely time with my daughters... [ see the AIDA diashow ] (08-08-2005)
25. Take a break from your world and fly to Kenya where everything what you had left home will look quite different. There is no better time for black Africa during (or just after) white Christmas... [ see my Kenya diashow ] (31-12-2005)
26. Fly to Crete in Greece. Stay at your hotel pool as little as you can. Exlore the island in all directions (do not even think about missing a drive to Gramvoussa beach!). See Elafonisi, Paleochora and obviously Knossos. Eating on Crete is much more than only a food.. (12-07-2006)
27. Visit Madrid first (reserve a day for the Prado Museum!). Then rent
a car and drive south down accross Spain (via Córdoba and Seville) to Cadiz on the mediterranen coast. Relax for at least a week in one of the ALDIANA Clubs down there (www.aldiana.de). Ride a horse on a beach. My daughters did. And I was close to them. (10-08-2006)
28. Break away to the sunny side of life on Maldives. Leave the crowd, fly to Malé and then take an air taxi to the smallest island you can find. Like Komandoo for example. Pure nature, house reef full of colorful creatures just in front of your bungalow. Going back home will be a tough decision... (08-01-2007)
29. Fly to Cyprus and get hot (very hot this year: up to 45 degrees Celsius). You do not have to check the weather forecast: is is always sunny. Rent a car and drive (left-hand side traffic) from Larnaca on the east coast to Paphos on the west. You will meet the ancient history at every stop you make. Even on the beaches. Beautiful little island where vacations never stop... (28-06-2007)
30. Leave your country, enter Russia and change your mind. You definitely will. I did. Versace shops close to Lenin's tomb in Moscow. Bleeding capitalism all around. More Porsches in St. Petersburg than in Berlin. Bookstores in best locations in St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospekt. And Ermitage which you will never forget. As well as the beauty of Russian women... (8-09-2007)
31. Take off to Jamaica and simply taste this unique Caribic island. Not only their famous rum, but also everything around you. Be a "Rasta" for a few days. I was... (12-01-2006)
32. Experience Dublin in Ireland. And n-joy the sunny side of life (even though it is windy and rains very often there). Do not limit your visit to the famous Templeton Bar street. If for some good reasons you got caught there for longer (it happens) then go to Dublin again... (24-05-2008)
My last event(s):
0. National Portrait Gallery (National Gallery), London, UK ( 23-02-2008 ):
Vanity Fair Portraits (Photograhs 1913-2008)
The best recent event in the portrait photography. Even if you do not read Vanity Fair magazine (I do not) you will be amazed seeing this unique pictures. Reality of the past and nowadays captured by the best photographers like Annie Leibovitz. The pictures on the walls of the National Gallery in London will stop you and make you think...
1. Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main ( 4-05-2007 ):
CESARIA EVORA in concert
Evora's voice, a finely-tuned, melancholy instrument with a touch of hoarseness, highlights her emotional phrasing by accenting a word or phrase. Even audiences who do not understand her language are held spell-bound by the emotions in her performances. I was. Sadness or happiness need not spoken language...
2. Broadway, Winter Garden Theatre, New York ( 22-04-2007 ):
"MAMMA MIA!" musical
The music of ABBA plus the great story. Real event on Broadway playing six years in the row. You will be laughing and you will be moved by your emotions...
3. Prado National Museum, Madrid, Spain ( 04-08-2006 ):
"PICASSO: Tradition & Avant-garde"
A new return to classicism (El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Velázquez) reflected in Picasso's masterpieces. If you have enough of Picasso, you have the whole Prado afterwards. Great...
4. Fritz Rémond Theater im Zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ( 03-03-2006 ):
"Kleine Eheverbrechen"
A theater play based on Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's bestseller book with the same title ( 
"Małe zbrodnie małżeńskie"). Reading the Schmitt's naked truths is one thing. Hearing them said and presented with emotions is quite another. They stay with you much longer.
5. Festhalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ( 30-05-2005 ):
Destiny's Child concert
A musical event which turned into a nice, pleasant, and sexually explicit fashion dance show of three attractive young girls from America. They have changed their outfits at least seven times during the show, each time displaying what men wanted to see the most. It was hot, and sometimes it was even hotter. Particularly when Beyonce kept on turning her back to the audience. My daughters - Adrianna and Joanna - had fun, feminists should be shocked, hedonists should be satisfied...
6. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ( 19-02-2005 ):
Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka: "The Naked Truth" Exibition
Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka as well as Richard Gerstl and Anton Kolig address in their paintings the tabooded themes such as sexuality and power, homoeroticism, adolescence and the battle of sexes. Absolutely unique collection of nakedness and nudity which had shocked in the early days of the 20-th century. For many the paintings are scandalous even today...
7. MMK, The Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ( 30-01-2005 ):
Elaine Sturtevant: "The Brutal Truth" Exibition
This exhibition of more than 140 works by Paris-based American artist Sturtevant (born 1930 in Lakewood, Ohio) covering a period of four decades. Something which plays with Warhol or is a (better?) copy of Worhol is definitely a modern art. By Sturtevant the ketchup is green. It looks interesting being green as well. I wish I could be less ignorant and much better art-educated to understand why green ketchup is a better idea...
8. Festhalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ( 6-6-2004 ):
Usher (The "Truth" Tour 2004) concert
I was probably the oldest person (among 9000 others) in the concert hall. Went there with my daughters who got the Usher concert as their Children Day's gift. Unusual experience to see how an average guy (for me) can be totally idolized: the crowd screamed when he took his T-shirt off and they also screamed when he put it back on. Music was an unimportant detail for them. And for me too :-)
9. Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, Germany:
Pat Metheny (and Charlie Haden)
Four guitars, one contrabass and two musicians (one might leave the stage and you would not notice). Jazz night of the first class. Simply METH(ENY)aphysic.
10. Frankfurt am Main, Germany:
Nigel Kennedy in Frankfurt/Main
A punk with violin, reputed rebel and "Bad Boy of Classical Music" comes with The Polish Chamber Orchestra to Frankfurt and plays Vivaldi, Hendrix, Debussy, Bach,
Massenet and the Monti Czardas the way you want it to never end. Except for his jokes he tells in between the concertos.
11. Vienna, Austria, Rathausplatz:
ScienceWeek @ Austria
The idea is as simply as that: erect a tent in the centre of the city, invite scientists from all over Europe
and ask them to talk about science in a popular way. And then see if you can attract pedestrians to enter the tent and listen
to the lectures. They did it in Vienna, Austria.
And it did work!
I had an honour to represent Poland with my
lecture as the invited speaker to this festival of science.
12. Concert, Sopot, Poland (Opera Leśna):
B.B. King
The best blues since Poland joined Christianity !!!!!!!!
You sit or stand or shake your body there and feel like a king.
Search for B.B. King somewhere around you and n-joy him live !
13. Concert, Frankfurt/M, Germany (Alte Oper):
"Harlem Gospel Singers"
Two hours of pure pleasure, your emotions are boiling: you laugh, you feel like crying sometimes, you stand up and clap your hands and you keep onasking yourself: "Are they soooo perfect 'cause it's gospel ???
You leave the concert hall, and you...., you are a better human being.
Don't miss it !
14. Paintings of Andy Warhol:
"Andy Warhol in Hong Kong"
Warhol in Asia is even more provoking. Though stays universal. The Chinese had the same fun as me.
See it, should you travel in this area.
I do support SETI @ Home Project:
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Don't waste the CPU time of your computer to run a dummy screen saver. Search for extraterrestrial civilization instead. They have tons of data to process. And they had amazing idea. There are millions of computers doing nothing else then running screen savers. They could scan telescope data in that time! They logistically organized it. You get a free copy of their program to from them. The project is called SETI. Don't think twice. Click, download their software and start helping them. You might be the one who found the aliens. And you will get your credit for this.
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© Dr Janusz Leon Wiśniewski (1998-2008), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
To work hard, and have fun, and NOT notice the difference
Moja książka pt. "Czy mężczyźni są światu potrzebni?" ukazała się w Rosji.
On December 6, 2007 my book "Loneliness on the Net" appeared in English.
Books which I have written (or participated in writing):
A note on me:
My education so far:
Master of Science (Physics)
Where I work:
My important and/or fascinating 
Books that I read or I have recently read:
in English
pleasure:
Computers, etc.
Should you be there then do it: (I did !)