On Sunday I head out for another adventure in Poland.
The Polish state school system schedules a two week "Winter Break" in late January, early February during which time many families head to Polish, Austrian or Italian mountains for skiing. And as our language school follows this pattern, even though we've only been back from Christmas break 3.5 weeks, we get another long holiday now.
Deciding and planning has been hit-and-miss. First my roommate was very sick for weeks after returning from Christmas. Then we couldn't find public trans to the site we both really wanted to visit -- Wolf's Lair (Hitlers mountain compound where he hid out a lot during the war).
Finally the cosmos aligned auspiciously, everyone was well and thinking properly, we removed Wolf's Lair from the equation and almost overnight cobbled together a pretty cool tour of Polish sights unseen. Transport and accommodations seemed to fall into place magically -- all is right with the universe.
So I'll be sending updates from our trip. First stop, Gdańsk (pronounced gDainsk) - site of the shipyards that produced Solidarity, and Westerplatte, the initial battle of WWII in the invasion of Poland
It’s gonna be cold as a mofo, but with proper clothing and generous amounts of alcohol we will do all right!