Kobylany

Since my great European adventure is almost over (I come home on July 31 - permanently for now), I decided to fill up my remaining weekends with out of town trips.

Last weekend, we went to a small town near Krakow called Kobylany. It's a nice valley which is particularly popular with rock climbing enthusiasts. Obviously, it's popular because there are tons of big rocks in this area. Rocks which you can climb. That's why its popular with rock-climbing enthusiasts (Whatever!). We even saw a Polish wedding (pictured below, in the wooden church). It's basically the same as a Filipino wedding, except nobody wore a Barong Tagalog and everything was in Polish.


Since I have no desire to climb big rocks (and hit my head on one, like one guy in our group did), I decided to go hiking (with my new friend, Agnieszka - you can see her back below taking a picture of a big rock). Miraculously, the weather cooperated - it was 10 degrees and cloudy the whole week before this.

"Home" at this place meant cramming together in a small shack (that's Krzysiek - my "kolega" from the office who invited me on this trip). Too bad for them, I had a pretty serious snore attack on both nights hehehe:


Evenings were spent grilling sausages, drinking beer, playing charades (using English movie titles, for my benefit) and exchanging stories. This is when I found out that the Polish title for the movie "Dirty Dancing" (Wirujący seks) literally means "Spinning Sex!" If you saw the film, you would definitely agree with me - it is a very good translation. Hehehe...

On our way back to Warsaw (this place was 4 hours away by car), we passed by a horse ranch - owned by one of Krzysiek's good friends. This place was packed with horses - and I mean packed. I've never seen so many horses in my life! (I am exaggerating - there were only about 20 of them there). The owner also had 2 dogs which were so big that you would think they were small horses (again, I am exaggerating - but they were quite big). Each one weighed 75 kilos - thats more than I weigh (if you add up their combined weight hehehe)!

I hope everybody else had a great weekend. See you soon!