Christmas Holidays 2009

February 22nd, 2010

We had to go on Sunday, with accommodation, near Szczecin, but eventually went on Monday without major interruptions. With snow in the city drove the cold germany ... the temperature has fallen gradually by a half step until it paused near-11C. I know that in Poland it was still cold ... Highway buried. Poland, fortunately, not so, otherwise it chybabyśmy actually rode for two days. Arrived.

The very next day - visit in Golub-Dobrzyn, the first visit to the doctor and the first medication, a visit to the office of civil status. There, we found that the passport is 'only' travel document and not the identity. No, we do not have any new evidence. I mean, I have, but you have to pick it ... On the Batory for it, I learned that despite the outdated książeczkowych evidence that I have to get a new pass, man. And still I have no proof, because unless I left it in Denmark. Overall, I lost hope that we will get 'a certificate of ability to make a marriage "or something like that. But for Batory, we managed to get the confirmation Kvitka recent / current registration. And without much ado - I include the office is on the plus. If I were still escape proof ... but you can not have everything : P The empty-handed from the Batory Foundation, we managed to get out for a 'certificate' - operating at three months. We must still translate it - fortunately in the offices of Danish employees understand the English spoken and written and have no need for any scrap of a sworn interpreter.

Holidays, holidays and after the holidays - these crafty calmly and without excesses. Meeting family and friendship. Some have found a new love, some have lost it. Part of the changed place of residence - a life in progress. Still in the Toruń difficult to live - not exactly the most interesting work, from what I hear ...

On Sunday pozbieraliśmy forces in a two-day trip - Lublin / Poland / Bytom. The first of the cities we went to 'the end to see' - it is a Martin and Bartek Foundation. We arrived at a place in the early afternoon, we got obiadek, we were quickly thematically short tour through the old town and the meeting zawiezieni :) Day's fun. The second day of the Bytom - Katowice region for me, it looks like, so someone might hit me just as well that I am in Gliwice, he he he. As for treatment - in the place, unfortunately ... but biotraksonu lack of ideas.

New Year's Eve - spent the Lizard King. Decent, without excesses, in my opinion troszeńkę przepłacony - but it was Oki : D Monika with Rafal in positive mood, the food quite pretty, well-chosen music, the band which is not true in my style, but the guys tried in August :) for an hour with a piece of zboczyliśmy and returned to the Knights' Dancing to the Lizard. Probably between the third and fourth we were back to Antczak.

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Martin wanted to go back now in the New Year but fortunately somehow came out that we left on Saturday morning. Never before przemknęliśmy by Poland so fast : D That means no traffic. But as soon as we drove in Germany - the snow ... and so already, including Denmark. Kolding as he was buried, so overwhelmed welcomed. Generally, community somehow forgot odśnieżaniu. After all, the same junction, right? Commuting by bike to work has become a nightmare, not to mention that dangerous because of ice ...

Autumn - thirties birthday

January 26th, 2010

Back to reality was quite painful - to work, the car struck (after we bought przechodzonego Opel Corsa). .. much cooler - in fact this autumn. But the autumn heat.

Birthday thirties experienced that in Denmark, as an unmarried person / nieżonata, becoming quite specifically. Generally, a person may with impunity sprinkle with pepper - almost as a punishment, tudziez send greetings from pepper. I missed it, but all night I had to walk through the plant with the word 'miss' (pebermø) with Danish flags and pepper, I got together with minor in skarbonce :) Well, that did not live in the house, because it stood in front of him to construct a metal / car from szrotu / heap of sand ... - what country is custom ...

For thirty Danes is an important occasion: "And what comes on the birthday of the family?" "What, the weekend event? At home or on the town? "And I was scratching his head ..." Fat chance ... no, not yet thought about it .... "

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In total, we wanted to get married in August and September - but we have a whim to take him in Denmark. Of Polish women with a language school I was told that there is no problem - just a birth certificate, not even translated + ichniejsze administration. But no, asked me a residence permit (this is not exactly a problem) and the statements of Polish, we can conclude that the marriage (the problem) - indicating that they have to be translated. Oh, just a statement must (of course) to take personally in our case in Torun ... and not to the Polish wybieraliśmy at least until December. And so the plan was transferred at the time and I paraded with pebermø back ...

Spain - The Final Days, comments and return

January 16th, 2010

The next day, Anna and Martin found that the burned the previous day and not feel the best. Fact, they looked like two crabs. Stayed at home. I smeared the cream jam with filters, so there was nothing to me. Ba - with horror, I discovered that I was pale as I was. So I decided to move to the beach (no lubrication is - madness). As anger, after half an hour on the beach, there were clouds. I ended up dripping. I returned to the flat walk, the road joining Lidl and bought a black, solid, whole grain bread. The same can be bought in Denmark. At that time, Anne Martin built a cache of larval water dripping from the terma. Neighbor came to the racket that it drips onto the terrace.
Evening trip to the dessert.
Thursday - the last walk, shop ...

Notes:

• undoubted drawback faraonki ants were flat. .. generally resulted in some chowaniu almost everything in the refrigerator. Always wywąchały where is trash. We found a positive point: that where there are faraonki, there is nothing else. And they can be cockroaches. We saw a couple walking along the street SUCH. Faraonki gave us, however, higieniczniejsze.
• I have to admit that quite a few days look out for your mailbox. Instinctively, I was looking for a red tin boxes suspended somewhere in the wall, the wall, a relatively free-standing on some pipes. A mistake. It was necessary to look yellow hydrantopodobnego large object (see here - unfortunately, the picture does not show the scale).
Pharmacies in Valencia are as numerous as in Poland. Plus give the temperature on the electronic sign ".
• Something for which, no doubt, you can get used to it round the middle of the width of the door handles. Issued with one we had in our apartment. Aroused in us paranoid that one day the door will snap us, and we all forget to take the key :) that our round ball / handle, seemed to be suitable only for popchnięcia door - did not give up or give a push turn ...
• An interesting move was only lanes for taxis and buses - the problem of traffic jams for people traveling to these means of transport was minimized. Sprytniutkie. In general, the streets of Valencia are a few band, often one-way.
• Another issue is the movement of pedestrians. You seemed to move some familiar way, which is not corresponded with the signs and lights. Unfortunately we were too short to learn it. Just as the crowd ruszaliśmy :) Several times, my heart sped up.
• I saw a tram - similar to Torun. Some line drives up the beaches in the area.

Overall, summing up - we are better prepared. I personally would have expected that a large number of Spanish will speak English and somehow did it lay. Mistake. We must be prepared for the option not to speak English. It's better to disappoint positive than negative ... no plans for more we will try not to leave.

Way back again with a change of Valencia - Zurich and Zurich-Copenhagen.
The first part went perfectly. And I say with full conviction: if you choose the Swiss lines, it is Take. Great, friendly, patient staff (at the end of a smooth, understandable English and German - tear of happiness), an airplane can not be accused of anything there. But just as dolatywaliśmy to Zurich, the captain announced that due to bad weather (storm) airport has been closed. On ekranikach we have seen, to which flights are no longer has time tudziez who are displaced. Also from the beginning we knew that did not have time. The list has increased. We spent half an hour or more in the air, kołując. Apparently it was seen through the window or other aircraft - did not inquire, because of turbulence, "she said to me motion sickness ... now I thought 'poturbulujemy' to another airport but the airport opened, however. We landed without any problems .. I began to Gehenna ...
Course information. Of course, no longer queue in front of us and behind us ... the other passengers on delayed flights ... we were there except the two hours, people puszczały nerves, some went as far as happy, others broken in (ie to Hamburg today's fly away). Finally, our turn. We learned that for one of us, the place certainly is, for the rest of deuces - do not know, you have to report there, and there ... and look after yourself - no one who is going? Marszo-pole by the inspections and report to the ticket gate to the entrance of the aircraft. We stopped at the desk did not walk anyone. And it was worth cringe, because I got all three places in the SAS-e. Mr. handing us the tickets seemed to be comforted that it can not seated us together. And we're happy we left that to get on board ... and the us of a common seat ...
On board at the entrance of the Danish newspapers, all seats occupied, Danish everywhere.

In the end, all ended in just three hours late for us ...

Ah - Not a word on his face when it turned out that the SAS-e have to pay for a meal - priceless. For Lufthansa, Swiss Air, and Spain-ie it was included. A Scandinavian SAS-e NO. I still write in the booklet that choosing low-cost airlines, you can expect additional, unexpected expenses ... it is nerve.

Spain - Sagunto

January 4th, 2010

On Tuesday we went to the train station and after paying about 4 Euro per person, everyone had a ticket in one and the other side.
We had a good hour or for departure, so we went for a walk, and so properly as we got to the bazaar Winkle distributed along the streets. Clothes, pierdołki, watches, table linen, bed linen, the plants, belts, handbags - everything unspecified companies ^ ^ But I know where he could be in Valencia for the cheap money to dress O_o

After an hour we returned to the station. Stop the target was near the hill where the ruins of fortresses ostały. Engrossed in the town - a labyrinth of streets and alleys of that downhill spread around many older homes ... looks like my eye as a narrow building, one-story, wide doors and a balcony above them, ie doors with a railing or balcony to a large wide pot ... the whole let us relatively side window. Mix well cared for and niezadbanych houses and streets, rising gently and steeply, many potted plants: on the stairs, the doors, balconies, terraces, window sills. Churches in contact with the department. In prześwitach between the buildings could be seen the ruins - only how to approach them?
So the work ahead, we arrived at the small 'ryneczku' with some restauracyjkami. Some were hungry. Using some rudimentary Spanish and waving their hands, we learned that about noon, tapas we can get at most. Well, something everyone chose: fries, Russian salad with ham and melon.
We went further and finally reached the road leading to the ruins ... phew ... began views (city, fields, mountains and sea) :) and the buzzing of cicadas. On the right side passed the restored Roman theater. The gate leading to the castle, in the shadow of a building in the style of ancient Greco-Roman (I do not know a) you sit with your laptop and handed the tickets, though admission is free. Probably count tourists. Hot. And we already knew that much will to circumvent ...
Sagunto / Sagunt was in ancient times Iberian settlement, then Greek colony Saguntum, and from the third century BC sprzymierzyło to Rome - this time known as the Ass, the Carthaginians in 219 BC, won under the leadership of Hannibal Sagunto, which led to the outbreak of the Second Punic War, about 212 BC came under the dominion of Rome in the eighth century, occupied by Arabs, who ruled the city for 1248, only 1 half of the thirteenth century, incorporated into Aragon. In the Middle Ages known as Murviedro.
Views - gorgeous, in order not to look at any page. The castle was built and modified in turn by the Iberian, Carthaginians, Romans, Moors and the French. Długaśny strip the walls come mainly from the period of Arabic and French.

And so it all started to celebrate. I went down a few kilosów ... even today the ruins are impressive - let alone at a time when tętniło life. Secured only at the most dangerous elements, and could freely walk and look in the corners - to the extent allowed many cacti (never, but never touch any part of these insidious plants, even if you do not see the spikes, and even if something appears to be the result of : P ) Anne of Martin to przypiekli - I go there every morning to smearing mazidłami intended for being in the sun : P Cracked glasses against my beloved Sun. Most of the time so screwed up his eyes from excess light.

Was it worth it to see?
Sure! :)

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Padliśmy this afternoon ...

Spain - center / old town in Valencia

December 20th, 2009

In Valencia, love baguettes. Baguette the size of all manner of dark bread ... you can forget. In piekarno-pastry that you can obtain a variety of pastries and croissants-croissant. Dooobre :) Unfortunately, it is decided to take a picture - he was gone. I'm talking about the cake with the goal of przystrojeniem football balloons. And it was not flat composition: O

Zalegliśmy again on Sunday at the beach. Water - the sun - corn. Ciepłooooo ... in the evening stroll to the movement of the green belt and the office on the playground :)

Monday is a trip to the old town-center. The newer part of the impressive momentum building. These large ground floors, dressing, place ...
Mature part of the city is characterized by narrow streets. The houses are high, so waited monuments was pretty heavy. Especially since the rustic churches are confronted with other buildings. If something interesting was seen, it was necessary to immediately follow the view :) Unless you happened to some of the square, it was often difficult to take a picture - the lack of space in this death. What differentiates the old buildings, Polish and Spanish is a type of timber. In Poland, a dark brick, Spain - clear (resp. some clear stones). Something else :) and so worth seeing. It is a pity that so we went without preparation - perhaps we might go to an earlier point of information and tourism. And yes, our trip was very chaotic: at the beginning of the map, then what attracted our eyes ... and so błakaliśmy :)
We went to the cathedral - 4 euros per person + the document as a deposit for urządzonko, reminiscent of the old cell. The cathedral in different locations can be encountered numbers - pressing a particular number and przystawiając 'phone' to your ear, you can listen to a description / history of the object / component. The large building. Worth a visit.

At the end of zgłodnieliśmy and przysiadliśmy at a table in a fairly narrow street. And so for 10 Euros per person we had a starter, main course and dessert. Pyszniutkie. Write a warning that if you ever order a young squid in batter - could look at you with a fork ... Anya for it after the snap (paella) was already quite najedzona ... finally napiłyśmy the sangria with fruit. Yum.

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