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We all love a good sunset and sunset over the sea is always worth watching. I don't know if there's a special quality to Baltic light but it seemed to me that the sunsets in this area were really high up on the colour spectrum. Every evening without fail there was a spectacular sunset - perfect ends to perfect days.
I think the sunset at Debki , the evening we arrived would have to be among my fondest memories of Poland. The whole day had been one great experience after the other and such a wonderful sunset was definitely the icing on the cake.
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 Cute or what? by Ekaterinburg
The first forest we walked through had my eyes out on stalks. I could not believe all the beautiful wooden houses, just like the woodcutter's cottages in children's storybooks.
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Like all (I think) Polish people, I love storks. These big black and white birds build their nests on the roofs of barns or farmhouses and, as they are supposed to bring good luck and... babies, are always welcome by farmers. Some of them even place a wheel of an old wooden cart on their roof or the nearest electricity pylon to attract the birds. My husband's uncle had a special pole erected with a round structure at the top close to his country house and the birds did settle there at first. But they did not stay long, perhaps they got bored as there was no one to watch there until June - it's just a summer cottage.
Some of my fondest memories are connected with storks: having our dinner at The Kacperek in Mazury with a stork in his nest just opposite, watching another stork out for a walk and frog-hunting right in front of our bungalow in Babieta (also Mazury) and the nest on a barn seen from our canoe there, the nest high on top of an unused chimney of the Sorkwity Palace (Mazury), a pair of very brave storks facing a violent storm from the top of their nest on the edge of the Bialowieza Forest, and many many more. Just watching them is pure pleasure, so quiet and dignified as they pace the meadows and fields undisturbed in their pursuits, or stand on one leg in their nest in control of the area.
If you want to watch a storks' nest and, in May, little storks being hatched, go to:
http://www.bociany.ec.pl/ or (another nest) http://www.bociany.edu.pl Leave a Comment
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 The Houses of the Keeper,
Poznan's Stary Rynek by Paul2001
There are many decent restaurants and cafes surrounding the Stary Rynek. It was a nice sunny day when I was here so I got to sit on an outdoor patio and watch life go by. This was rare occasion in Poland because of the foul weather that I experienced for most of my journey. Leave a Comment
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 The world of walls no longer
exist! by Sharrie
In some society, the more & open & trusted societies, individual glory is being exemplified! In some ways, it encourages each & every one of us to work towards perfection. Yet, in other ways, it draws boundaries among people.
But you know what... for me, on this trip, what makes Poland endearing is its Flaki - a beef tripe soup that tasted almost the same as the Chinese Dim Sum "steamed beef-tripe". If we eat similar food, how different can we be? ;-) Leave a Comment
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 As pure as the driven
snow! by Sharrie
I am lucky. Always been able to evoke a feeling of trust from children I meet across the world.
This one I'm referring to, however, took that a further step. She is an angel in disguise!
Very generous & giving for someone who hardly meets Asian (I can only guess, as I met her in one of the residential area in Zakopane)!
You see, she is still too young to differentiate between races! So incredibly precious! So innocent, so unguarded!
She was with her mother, walking on the side street & "plucking" some kind of "dead" berries from the branches.
She saw me walking by & came up & gave me those berries! I gave it back to her but she insisted I have them!
It was something "dead" & "useless" but what she had given me that very afternoon lives on in my heart for the rest of my life! A real moment where our spirits connected; child & adult, innocence & hope.
That is something powerful & angelic, don't you think?
Slow down... open yourself to the present moment & you'll find joy in unexpected areas.
Children are open to strangers.
I think that's the most wonderful thing about the young spirit! Leave a Comment
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 Love by Sharrie
So, it's appearing on this page instead of elsewhere.
But for the rest of world, it could have been anywhere.
We humans love to differentiate ourselves against the entire race, population or even the world.
It's in the name of competition, vanity or ego!
Yeah, sometimes we are not such beautiful spirits ;-)
How we separate ourselves from the neighbors, cities, states, countries & races!
We take pride in being "better" than the rest of the world. As if that truly matters in your spiritual growth!
But we, including me, & many a times, me alone, are guillty of such acts.
Acts which hold us to the view that that's what being a human being means!
It striked like a bolt of lightning somewhat, that very day in Zakopane.
Hey, we are all the same!
Live in the same type of houses (designwise it's different, but they all involves a roof over the head, a shelter to protect ourselves against cold & condition ourselves against heat!), eat the same kind of food (yes, some don't eat certain foods, but generally, we all eat the same kind of edible food!) & we tend to have the same kind of hope (that we would find love in ourselves, others & families, that we would want to be a better & productive person, & be happy with what we have or hope to have).
So, be it that we are different in looks, in languages, in religions, in politics & in training, we are still humans!
We live in hopes & despairs, love & hatred (hopefully not too many in this!), mistakes & growth (some said no mistakes but just off the marks!) & health & sickness (hey, it's beginning to sound like a marriage vow to me, haha...). Leave a Comment
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 Highlanders by magor65Leave a Comment
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 Life in a cemetry by Sharrie
It's basically a cycle. Just like seasons.
I was in Zakopane for 2 nights.
Zakopane is the resort gateway to Mt. Tatras National Park.
It was where I realised given the right circumstances I am able to enjoy the simplest things in life just as much as the "big" things in life.
2 "events" stand out:
1) A visit to the cemetry.
I was told to do so in Warsaw by Alina & Robert. Ok, I've been to many cemetries. Some very massive ones like those in Buenos Aires & Punta Arenas.
I thought, well, if I find time I will.
Actually, the visit was more to the small wooden church. But since it was so tiny, I just took a few steps further.
In a cemetry, you often realise your own mortality. I think that's natural. & the thought "ultimately nothing matters".
This time round, I didn't quite "see" death... but life.
It was truly a "strange" but delightful experience.
I noticed a lot of trees in this cemetry.
Literally across the entire cemetry!
Trees... those wonderful trees!
Someone said "where there is dog, there is hope!" ;-)
I think "where there is tree, there is life".
Wonderful, don't you think?
2) A walk in the local park.
I thought I saw a church across the other end of the park. But I never found the church. The path didn't lead the way.
Instead, I found peace; peace of mind.
It was truly truly nice to walk through the small park near my hotel at Villa Marilor.
Nothing unusual about the park, but somehow the atmosphere, the weather & the mood were perfect.
No inner turmoil. Just peace.
So, the simplest thing in life does leave lasting impression!
That's a great revelation to me!
I wonder what the future holds!? Leave a Comment
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 by magor65
It belongs to the Slavonic languages and as such is fairly similar to Czech or Slovakian.
What are the hardest elements of Polish language?
- inflections - there are seven cases, two numbers and three genders, which creates a great number of various endings
- spelling - there are several pairs posing problems even to native speakers: ch or h, rz or z (with a dot), u or o (with a dash)
- pronunciation - clusters of diphtongs such as 'sz' and 'cz' in one word. Everybody trying to learn Polish must have come across such tongue twisters as:
W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie Leave a Comment
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