Fun-Filled Day

Today was actually a pretty fun and interesting day. We started in the morning with visiting the local airport to watch our friends from Germany land in a Boeing 737 Plane, on an amazing observation deck, with a great view of the planes landing and taking off.

After greeting them and helping them out, we drove to Biskupin, a town rebuilt, based on the people who lived there 2,000-12,000 years ago. They were very civilized for such an old civilization. I got to make a coin the way they did, and ride a horse, and go inside one of their houses. The house was very straight forward The entrance area had 2 rooms to the left and right, being stables for animals. In front was the living room, fire, and work area. In the top left corner, there was a work room, and in the middle left, there was a bed area made of soft brush as a mattress and wood as bed. There was only one bed per house, and each house could probably only hold 3-5 people. Very Stuffy! The town itself was a fort, with 12 rows of these houses, each looking the same, and each having their own little job, and it was all boxed in a thick wall, complete with walkways, archer spots, and watchtowers. Since it used to be on an island, there was a bridge to the gate, allowing people and their horses across, and into the fort. People would leave to hunt and gather materials, and return home with their goods ready for trade. The most interesting part of the day had to be riding the horse. It was a rather bumpy, experience, and I felt I was going to fall off the whole time, and getting off was a relief. It was quite an "adventure" though, and worth it (only $1.50). Many people back then transported that way, and I'm surprised. After having a good meal of a cheeseburger and fries, we headed back home and relaxed for the rest of the day, taking the dog on a walk and having a huge dinner. What a day...


P.S. Yesterday (Sunday) consisted of visiting family, and visiting a cemetery, where we placed candle lit lamps at our family members' graves, a Polish tradition that will give light to the soul of the dead family member. It is a tradition to do every time you visit a cemetery.



Look for photos of Biskupin and my trip to Poland at http://picasaweb.google.com/GuitarGodAdamp

Dinosaurs and Pizza

Today was "average", well not really. I went to a dinosaur park/museum/outdoor sort of thing. It was interesting, and had life size sculptures of all sorts of different dinosaurs. They even had a actual fossils and dinosaur remains that you could touch. There's a lot of construction going on at the park part of the place, so all of the park was pretty much a playground. There were restaurants as usual, and I tried something new, a zapiekanka(I think it's how that's spelled) It's almost like french bred pizza, except without the cheese. It's basically dough with mushrooms and cheese, with tomato sauce on top. It definitely wasn't the best thing I've eaten, as I don't like mushrooms, but it was an interesting experience. Back home, we just made some pizza with dough, tomato sauce, and cheese. It was quite tasty too.

F16's, Thunderstorms, and Crappy Rides

Today was rather... interesting. First we woke up to go to an amusement park, but the rides were simply ridiculous, and it wasn't much fun. We'll be trying another one tomorrow, hopefully it'll be at least O.K. After that, I stayed home for a while, but heard these extremely loud jet engines very close by, I thought it was just planes landing at the airport nearby, but it couldn't have been, given the noises were as loud as rocket engines, and they were happening over and over again. After wondering for hours, I finally discovered what they were. F16's. Landing in the airport nearby, and taking off. It was about 4 o'clock PM, and we decided to walk out to the airport to see some commercial planes, as well as the F16's. We were almost there.... Kaboom! Thunder, rain, and hurricane force winds. We were out of luck again, just like yesterday, no jets, no F16s, no nothing. Everything was cancelled The walk, well more like run home left us soaked, and we had to stay in an apartment lobby during the most torrential part. We were at home soaked, and now drying. What an interesting, but unlucky day.

Back From Downtown

After spending an hour in downtown Bydgoszcz, I was back home, relieve to see that the internet was ready to be activated, but first, I'll tell you all about Bydgoszcz. We just walked down from our apartment, into the downtown. We visited the famous river bridge, the Opera Nova opera house, Bydgoszcz Plaza (Which is known for its huge flocks of birds), a Mill Island, some of Bydgoszcz's famous restaurants, started up our cell phone, saw some churches (When the clock striked noon I definitely heard more than 12 rings), and a street crossing. Very.... Exciting.... After taking the city bus "home", we settled in, got people to finish setting up our internet (finally), had lunch (fries), went shopping, came back. After that, we went to the local airport to watch a plane land, but we had tough luck, since the time we went for, was an airplane landing in another city, but just departing from here. We only saw a small biplane land. I'm back home now, ready to eat dinner, so i'll write again tomorow (which we have no idea what we'll be doing). Find more pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/GuitarGodAdamp/BydgoszczPoland

P.S. This is the first post that I'm writing directly from the internet.

Bydgoszcz (At Last)

Written in the morning of June 26th at 11:22 (GMT +1), before I had internet: The flights went well, and surprisingly, there was no lost luggage, and no plane delays. The flights were actually shorter than excepted. but it was hard to find the oversized bag dispenser for our last bag. From the Warsaw Airport, it was a 4-hour drive to Bydgoszcz, where we’re staying. I slept for a majority of it, as I barely slept on the planes (which had movies, games, and electrical power). Once we were there, I just settled in, and had these amazingly good Polish Donuts. It was hard with no American (or even British) channels, no internet, or American food. Everything is so different. After a good 14 hour sleep, we woke up to get the internet working, and it didn’t work… oh how I miss America. Now I’m off for a walk to downtown Bydgoszcz, where things should hopefully get exciting.

At the Boston Logan Airport

Written on the night of June 24^th at 5:45 EST, before I had internet: After a dinner at sbarro’s, I’m ready to board my flight to Amsterdam, it’s going to be a 7 hour flight. There were a quite a few interesting things that happened at the airport. Number one, a vending machine that sells PSP games, cameras, and headphones. One of the more “interesting” vending machines I’ve seen in my life. Besides the crappy internet here, nothing really is too bad. Except of course the weather, with this weather, we’ll be leaving tomorrow. Fog leaves the visibilty to about 20-40 feet, lightning strkes every 10 seconds, and it’s raining so bad, that you’d drown out there. Our flight isn’t dealyed yet, since the flight leaves in about an hour and a half, and we’re unsure of the weather. (I can’t check since the internet here doesn’t work, and it’s too expensive).

Departure

Today it's goodbye, leaving the comfort of my home, I'm going to be leaving to Boston, on a 6 hour flight to Amsterdam, after that a 2 hour flight to Warsaw, and then a 4 hour drive to my "house". Not much has happened yet, other than nonstop packing, and last minute little things. I'm going to be at my "home" late Wednesday, and when internet gets installed there (Thursday), I'll report back here.