It's been a busy week at work, and a week devoid of inspiration. No great dreams, no ideas triggering new avenues of thought. Never mind; such is life.
Today I set off on a 12-mile (20km) walk with one aim – to buy some beer. Non-alcoholic beer that is; Perła 0,0%, which I came across in the Żabka convenience store in Zalesie Górne last week. Excellent stuff – hoppily bitter. Just the thing to extinguish thirst on a hot day. Having liked the taste of it, I looked it up online; the 33cl aluminium cans are only available in Żabka and in an online supermarket called Delio (of which I've never heard). So my mission to Zalesie Górne was all about buying every last can of the stuff on the shelves. Which I did – all three of them.
My route – Jakubowizna-Chynów-Nowe Grobice-Sułkowice-Kiełbaska-Julianów-Krępa-Nowinki-Zalesie Górne. And back by train. Time taken: Three hours and 15 minutes to the shop, then back to Zalesie Górne station and a short walk home from Chynów station.
Below: the tiny settlement of Kiełbaska (administratively, a part of Julianów). Note to non-Polish readers; kiełbasa = sausage; kiełbaska = little sausage. Out of curiosity, I looked up the origin of the name – the word kiełbaska was also an archaic slang term for 'four morgas', a morga being a unit of area, a little over half a hectare.
With the solstice passed, it's now astronomical summer – the hottest months of the year. The third quarter will soon begin. A total of 24,725 paces walked today, a ver, very good rezultat. One tin of beer supped back.
This time four years ago:
My return to central Warsaw after lockdown
Last summer before S7 works begin
This time seven years ago
Nostalgia, ideology, aesthetics, emotions
This time eight years ago:
Civilisation and barbarism – how the former deals with the latter
This time ten years ago:
Ahead of the opening of Jeziorki's Biedronka
This time 11 years ago:
New views of Jeziorki
This time 12 years ago:
Motorway finally links (the outskirts of) Łódź and (the outskirts of) Warsaw
This time 15 years ago:
Kraków Air Museum
This time 16 years ago:
Quintessential Jeziorki
This time 17 years ago:
Little boxes, Mysiadło
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