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Maria Miecielica's Farm: Staying on a farm

We stayed there for a week, enjoying the landlady's delicious cooking, well, a little too fatty for me, as is the custom in that area, but my husband enjoyed his meals very much and I loved the homemade cakes.
The woman rents out three or four rooms on the first floor, with small private bathrooms. The TV is in the dining room downstairs, where all the guests meet for meals. It's more like a family house than a hotel and guests can use the kitchen to prepare something extra, but you won't be able to eat anything else after the enormous meals you'll get.
The place is not too attractive, with no forest nearby but there is a lake, a little overgrown with rushes so you can only get into the water from the small pier. The house is hard to find and the road leading to it is bumpy but there is no traffic so you can enjoy peace and quiet.
For amateurs of country living.
A place that I would prefer to stay in if I were going there again is Smolniki, a nice village with a forest and a lake with a pier, where we had a picnic one day.

Unique Quality: A nice place to stay with children, who can feed and cuddle the farm animals, like pigs (I did mind the smell of the pigsty a little), sheep, goats, little calves, cats. But children must be looked after to prevent them from falling in the lake. Dogs are welcome.
The food is prepared from local produce, a lot better than that from supermarkets. The landlady makes wonderful cottage cheese, cures ham and bacon and even produces her own cheese. Gourmets of the world, here's your heaven.

• Opinion of Price: less expensive than average
• Address: Mrs. Maria Miecielica, Potopy near Rutka-Tartak
• Phone: (+48) 87 568 72 42
• Related to: Family Travel, Farm Stay, Travel with Pets
• Written February 5, 2006

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