Great welcome in Poland! (June 10th 2006)

So many things to relate in only 2 days spent in Poland! Everything went well so far. Fixed the bikes at the airport and started the trip on thu afternoon.

Spent the first night hidden in a field, on the north side of Wroclaw (prononce rotzoav!) A bit cold during the night but we woke up with the sun! Andrea broke down the night before (back carrier), so we went to look for a garage in order to fix his bike. Pretty tough to explain the situation in polish, but they understood... they were 4 people looking at the problem. Finally they found a polish who knew english, and helped us. Had a great day after that. Cycled 90km through countryside and ended in a petrol station to fill our cooker in Jutrosin (between Wroclaw and Poznan). We asked for a campsite, but it was very hard to understand the woman. Obviously there was no campsite around. We have been lucky to run into a french speaking polish who invited us to set our tent in her garden! While we were setting our tents, 2 polish girls came from the neighbourhood, and then 2 other ones. They showed us the village, and the only pub. We sleeped very well and they caught us this morning and dragged us into their house for a huge breakfast with all the family... we got really stuffed. We love polish food. They told us that guests are like god in their house! We talk a lot as the young people usually know english and can translate to the parents. Everybody is wondering why we are travelling by bike... many things to explain...

Well, I'd better go now... heading to Poznan now..