Back in Poland

How nice it is to be back.

 

After a year long break, I am finally back in my home town. Poland in summer can look really nice, with the blue sky, green trees and meadows, yellow fields and shiny surface of the many lakes we have up here in the north. The trip from the airport near Gdańsk was a very pleasant one and breathing the warm air and experiencing all these vivid colours contributed to it.

 

  

Not far from my town there was a welcoming sign written in both Polish and the local language called Kashubian. It's also a sing that the country is changing and so is people's mentality:

 

I visited my Granny in the hospital and she was extremely happy to see me. The fact that I was coming had been kept in absolute secret from her so she was very surprised as well. Soon after leaving the hospital we headed for a quiet spot by a lake to... well, swim of course! The water wasn't cold so we really had a good time and some good laughs while messing around. Then, in the evening I met a good friend of mine whom I hadn't seen for two years, so we had loads to catch up. We met near the castle and went straight to the pub where we had used to go to when we were still at school.

At night, another friend of mine drove me several kilometres outside the town to another lake. Living in a big city, I had completely forgotten that there is such an enormous number of stars in the sky. We were far from civilisation so no artificial lights were dimming them. I couldn't help keeping my head high up and gazing; it was spectacular. Once so used to this view, this time I must have behaved like a blind who had just recovered his sight. I also spotted two shooting stars but made no wishes.