A detour to Poland

A kayak trip in Masuria

In June, I had to put my trip on hold for a couple of weeks to attend the wedding of Domi and Mick puttygen download , who decided to get married in Masuria, a region in North-West Poland famous for its lakes. As the wedding was taking place in a picturesque spot on the Beldany lake, Gosia and I thought we could use this opportunity to do a bit of kayaking on Krutynia, one of the most beautiful waterways in the region that flows into the same lake. After renting a kayak, equipped with a tent, cooker and numerous waterproof sacks, we started our three-day trip in a spot called Babieta. Krutynia is famous for its numerous bends and a changing landscape along the way. The river is usually slow, but you need to cross a few lakes in the kayak, which with a strong wind is easier said than done. From Gosia: The latter is especially true if only one person is paddling while the other is filming, check out the video and notice who is doing the work on the boat 😉

The welcoming bus station of Pisz was where we took a new

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, shiny bus to the touristic village of Ruciane Nida

Before the kayak trip we explored the region by bicycle


In the holiday season, flocks of tourists come to the old town of Mikołajki. Fortunately, we were there one week ahead of the summer holidays…

Our preparations for the three-day kayak trip into the Polish wilderness of Masuria: ice cream and waffles

The shallow and wilder upper course of Krutynia the highlight of the trip for me

The swan was not amused that we crossed their territory

After eight hours of paddling we called it a day and pitched a tent

The usual camping delight: pasta and tomato sauce!

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Bypassing the the watergates was the most challenging task with our heavily loaded kayak


Thanks to the fact that we did our trip just before the start of summer holidays, we encountered only a few boats on the way. However, this changed around Krutyń, where dozens of tourist-filled boats crossed our way.

What an idyllic scene 😉

Another swan ready to defend his family and territory

I had to paddle as well after I lost my camera to Gosia 😉

Trying to find a way to a small lake connected with the Krutynia river

I have never seen such a green, natural watercourse in Europe

A sign for homemade pierogi (traditional Polish dumplings) caught my attention. But we still had plenty of pasta and tomato sauce for dinner 🙁

The green wedding of Domi and Mick

I was pretty excited when the Przemek handed me the steering wheel of the 10m yacht 🙂

Only the bride is missing for the Titanic-picture 😉

The competition comes closer…

…and overtakes us 🙁


The green side of Galindia

…and the rather spooky side (photo by Maciek Moskwa)

…and even spookier 😉

When their bus arrived, the wedding guests were taken hostage by the Galindians 🙂  (photo by Maciej Moskwa)

The king of Galindia (photo by Maciej Moskwa)

Luckily, the king of Galindia pardoned the guests and the wedding could take place (photo by Maciej Moskwa)

photo by Maciej Moskwa

The happy couple asked me to deliver their wedding rings by drone. To surprise the guests, I took off a few hundred meters away and flew over the lake so that the drone appeared out of the blue just in the right moment. I was so relieved when the rings were in the hand of the registrar 🙂 (photo by Maciej Moskwa)

While Gosia chose a traditional Polish dress, I opted for a Karamojong outfit bought while I explored North-East Uganda with Domi and Mick. Unfortunately, the temperature dropped from 28° to 13° the night before the wedding 🙁

It was definitely a multi-cultural wedding 🙂 My friend Andrzej wore the dress uniform of his grandfather who was a miner in Silesia. (photo by Maciej Moskwa)

Singing songs by the fire (photo by Maciej Moskwa)

Flower wreaths floating on the water

We arrived at the wedding spot two days before the ceremony so we could spend some time with Domi and Mick, whose families were already there. We joined them on a hired a sailing boat and made a tour on Sniardwy, the largest Polish lake. With a help of our captain, Przemek, everyone took turns in steering the boat. This caused a lot of laughs, but did not make us the fastest vessel on the see, to put things mildly 😉 The wedding took place on the day of the summer solstice, in a beautiful spot run by a fanatic of a long-extinct Balt tribe called the Galindians. The whole estate has folk elements reminding visitors of the Galindians, the staff wears old-school clothing and the proprietor is the undisputed king of the tribe. The young couple got really lucky with the weather as, contrary to all forecast, we were exposed only to a tiny drizzle and in the end enjoyed the party undisturbed. The wedding guests were asked to wear clothes traditional to their region (or the region they identify with), so the crowd was super colorful and almost tie-free (which was the hidden agenda of the groom

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, who detests ties ; ). We also paid tribute to a Polish tradition of weaving flower wreaths and letting them float on water. Traditionally, boys would catch the wreaths hoping to catch the interest of the girls making the flowery accessories, but this time only the photographer and the camera man (yours truly) were interested in wading through water to get a good shot of the candle-lit decorations.

History covered by green

Trying to enjoy ourselves in rainy Masuria (the weather was only kind during the wedding and broke the next day), we made a short trip to a former Prussian fortress called Boyen and located in Giżycko (oh, the beauty of the Polish names bristling with consonants and beset with Polish special letters!). The fortress was built between the 1840s and 1850s and was abandoned in 1944. For those who love history https://lookup-phone-prefix.com , book half a day for the local museum to follow all battles of the 1st wold war 🙂 However, what we enjoyed most was the walk along the walls and the realization that the fort is slowly turning into meadows and forests. This feeling was even stronger in Wolfsschanze (English: Wolf’s Lair, Polish: Wilczy Szaniec), a place so famous in the history of the 2nd World War, it does not need an introduction. This top secret, high security headquarters of the Nazis used for the planned conquest of the Western Front, was located in the midst of a thick forest. The site comprised of 40 living quarters as well as 47 bunkers. Seven of those were MASSIVE type A bunkers with ceilings ranging from 3.5 up to 8 meters (in the case of Hitler’s bunker) and made from the best ferroconcrete. Except for a few concrete pieces, nothing is left from the building where the most notable assassination attempt against Hitler took place. The rest of the complex was blown in the air in January 1945, just a couple of days before the arrival of the Soviet army. At the moment, nature is definitely the one winning the battle over Wolfsschanze. The ruins are covered in moss and trees are stemming from the fissures in the concrete. On a cloudy, slow-tourist day (we were lucky on both accounts), the visitor has the feeling s/he is discovering the ruins of an ancient culture, lost for centuries amidst lush green vegetation. It is a very touching experience, creating in the spectator a cognitive dissonance between the terrors of the Nazi regime and the calmness of the forest, the slow rebirth of nature and the chirping birds.

We discovered other interesting places in the region. The two large railway viaducts in Stanczyki, built between 1912 and 1914, are yet another pearl in the landscape of Masuria, especially for those with a drone : ) We have discovered many other, much smaller, railway viaducts in the area. Unfortunately, it has been ages since a train rode on those. What a pity, this would have probably made for the most attractive train route in the area!

Today, one might think the walls of the Boyen Fortress are there to protect the forest inside

Only the base-plate is left of the bunker where the attempted assassination on Hitler was conducted by Claus von Stauffenberg on 20th July 1944

One of the type A bunkers

Approximately 8 tonnes of TNT were used by the retreating German troops to demolish each bunker before the Wolfsschanze fell in to the clutches of the advancing Red Army

The railway viaducts in Stanczyki


The drone gets a better perspective

The construction of this railway bridge started before the 1st World War https://becejprevoz.com/buchstabe-k/index.html , but was never finalized

In Rapa, just two kilometers from today’s border with Russia, the surprising architecture of the Fahrenheid mausoleum makes you think you are in Egypt…though the weather reminded us we were in Poland 😉

Travelling through rural Masuria feels like going back in time

Białowieża primeval forest

Hoping to see some wildlife we embarked on an early-morning hike through the beautiful forest

A tiny toad found by Mick

The żubr (bison) is such a big part of the region’s identity that it even got a special road sign

A look-out that should help you spot a żubr in the high grass of the swampy meadows

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, don’t miss the train station „Białowieża Towarowa“, which was build in 1908 for Tsar Nicholas II

Today, the nicely restored train station serves as restaurant and hotel (you can sleep in vintage train carriages)

A masterpiece of an espresse machine that perfectly matched the ambience

Marcinek is a gift of the gods send to this planet in the form of a creamy, but subtle cake traditionally baked in the area

Historically, eastern Poland was mostly Orthodox, but many churches have been destroyed or converted in the 1920’s and 30’s after Poland re-gained independence in 1918. Erected in the center of a small village, the deep blue church with its shiny golden onion domes could not be overlooked.

Crosses on the holy hill of Grabarka

In the middle of nowhere I spotted this old house that is slowly but surely being conquered by nature

Yet another claim to fame of Poland lies in Bialowieza, which houses a tiny part of a primeval forest that used to cover a large part of the European Plain. The forest is a national park and an UNESCO world heritage site shared by Poland and Belarus (so if you are dying to have a Belarusian stamp in your passport, this is the place where you can get it quite easily). The most famous inhabitant of the forest is the żubr (English: bison). The żubr is known by many from the picture on a popular Polish export vodka called in its honour Żubrówka. Legend has it that the grass blade in the bottle stems from the forest and that the yellowish colour of the vodka is attributed to the pee of the żubr. Enjoy! 😉 Żubr, wiped out by soldiers and hungry locals during the second world war, was re-introduced to the park in the 1950s. As of 2018, around 650 animals live in the Polish part of Bialowieza. The forest hosts a plethora of birds and plants. If you want to stir some trouble in a Polish bar, do ask about managing the forest (the views vary greatly between conservationists, foresters and politicians), especially regarding spruce bark beetle. This little guy had the whole European Union scream and shout in shock when park authorities decided to encroach into the realm of protected forest. I bet that the Poles will give you juicy details about the story, and those will change seriously depending on your interlocutor. Good luck!

If you want to get into orthodox heaven, you should find some time to pray in Grabarka and take a sip of its holy water straight from the spring. This has saved the inhabitants of the nearby town from cholera, or at least this is what people want you to believe. A local monastery on a top of the hill is surrounded by crosses placed there by pilgrims visiting the sanctuary during the celebrations of Transfiguration of Jesus. I have no idea as to how many crosses there are, but some have been seriously withered by the elements and are slowly disintegrating, making space for the new ones. You can find crosses of all sizes, shapes and colours and the place has a strong spiritual vibe.