Poland Rally

Place: Katowice

Tunes: A constant lawn mower sound. No juice in the ipod.

The first thing you see out the window in Gdynia.

Copernicus.

A church.

Bikes parked in Torun.

Questionable taste in hats?

The others went to have the best ribs in the world, while I stayed at the hotel to write this. What I would not do for this blog...

This morning we had a refreshing truck driver breakfast (quantity beats quality) at the ferry and shortly after the Poland Rally begun. The Ferry from Sweden was a pretty basic affair. It was a long day and it's an early wake up, so no crazy parties this time.

Today's route was from Gdynia on the Baltic Sea to Katowice in the south. I was surprised by the kinds of cars you see around you. Most of them appear to be lorries with at least three axis and people seem to drive them like they are little Datsuns or Nissan Micra's. Some give way (which is very useful) but most practice for the next WRC* season. All in all, the traffic moves around quite easily, it's just the overtaking that is like playing russian roulette.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Rally_Championship

Another interesting thing on the roads here is that there are a lot of people selling things on the side of the road. Just about any kind of farm produce, mushrooms and berries can be bought easily from old ladies. There are also young ladies selling something on the side of the road, but as they are dressed in mini-skirts, it is a bit difficult to figure out what. Maybe they sold all of their berries and mushrooms already? 

Everythign about Poland seems nice so far apart from the traffic which is worlds apart from Sweden where overtaking is punishable by death. We stopped to see the center of Torun - a very neat place, where Copernicus did his work. It all looks grand indeed. Coffee and cakes followed, which were also grand. Nothing that exciting happened today to be honest other than a lot of riding on big roads through Poland.