Easter in Poland

Well, the trip was short but intense. Very intense. Many city walks around my home town called Piła - it was mostly because of Bob who had never been to Poland before... 

The city is very beautiful, especially in the sun rays, in the spring when everything is green and colourful of blooming trees... 

We spent some relaxing time in the nearby reserve called Kuźnik - it's just outside the city borders but it seems like a different world - wild, unknown, misterious... There are many wild animals and birds...

                      

Also long hours spent on... shopping. Mostly food as I'm not really a fan of Dutch food...

And finally the Easter dinner - awesome food made by my mum, typically Polish, typically Eastery... 

We even went to a church - there's a tradition to take a basket full of food to be blessed, so we didn't run out of food the coming year...

...and the Easter race afterwards. This is an event taking place on Christmas and Easter, I think for last 11 years now... It's in the center of Piła, on a small island. There is basically a group of people who come almost every time, we are a group of friends, close, far... A great way to unglue ourselves from a boring anyway tv... 

Now most of the people come also with their families, well... and we always have fun. I've never took part in it, I'm an active supporter and photographer ;) And a chatter ;) It's nice to see people who I haven't seen sometimes for ages! Drumming session, singing, people passing by with surprised faces... :D Great fun!!!

The last but not least - my pre-birthday party. Wow, it was so nice! Many people managed to come, I made a reservation in Atmosfera pub (thanks Artur!!) and there were not enough seats at the end! Endless chatting - sometimes after quite a few years!! - drinking, singing about Bolsheviks...

The surprise Sto lat! song (a Polish equivalent of Happy birthday) played and sung by half of the people in the pub moved me to tears ;)

And a flight back the next morning... You can imagine what I felt...