Poland is situated in the Central Europe. According to some legends, well-known here, everything started when three brothers decided to set off on journey. They were living in peace until hunger threatened them. The land wasn’t able to give enough food for great amount of their people, so Lech, Czech and Rus (how they were called) needed to move. After a long walk and facing dangerous situations, only Lech didn’t find ideal place for his family. People were already tired. But finally, they came to a beautiful, suitable place. He was still hesitating though. Suddenly, everyone saw a majestic, strong bird, returning to his nest. People were amazed by this view – white eagle during a sunset… This settled the matter. Lech decided to set up a town in that land, and called a city Gniezno (word come from “nest”).

In real, that city was the first capital.

The actual one (and third in a row) is Warsaw. It’s situated almost in the centre of Poland and it’s gone through a lot. During II World War city was almost completely destroyed, and later rebuilt from scratch. Now it’s the biggest city in Poland. There’s a lot of buildings worth attention (and traffic jams…), but actually, what I remembered best from my trip to Warsaw were flowers. It’s because of Royal “Łazienki” – a summer residence of king Stanisław August. “Łazienki” is kind of lovely park with some equally beautiful buildings. (Funny thing here is that “Łazienki” nowadays means in polish “bathrooms”… ;)

The legend I mentioned earlier picture one important matter.

Polish emblem is white eagle with a gold crown on a red background.

White symbolize purity, and red courage and love. In the photo

I attached you can see some hills. It’s pretty common view in the south

part of Poland (where I live), because it’s really close to mountains.

At the opposite site (north Poland) there is a Baltic Sea. Water is a bit

cold even in summer, but this doesn’t bother holidaymakers. In the

middle of the country we have lowlands and everything is flat. Cities

and towns show completely different view, of course, but it’s different

story…

Poland isn’t big, still there are some small difference in language

between people from other parts. It’s sometimes very funny, especially

when you say something normal and everyone is looking at you with

weird expression on their faces.  I know about four ways to say

“go outside”, when only one is commonly used. (That “one” is different

for everyone though ;). And there are a lot of dialects of course, which

majority isn’t understandable for other people.

The rest of photos show autumn forest. Looking for mushrooms is very popular activity (at least if you have time in the morning – afternoons you can only find nice views, because there’s always someone who had time earlier…). 

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