Tykocin should be very beautiful and full of history but to us it occured very touristic and disappointing… Visiting the castle was tempting but it is only possible with a guided tour of about 1h which is not doable with our kids right now. The boat trip was fully booked for the next hours and the church was full of people. Or maybe it was simply too hot and we were not in a mood for explorations 😉
The hidden beauty of that day, or even the whole region, was the European Stork Village in Tykocin. Lovely old houses surrounded with peaceful and gorgeous nature. And by the storks, of course…
Our friends (few days after our visit) were wise enough to ask there if they could stay overnight. There was no problem and the price was 1/3 of a campsite price.
In the end of our visit there we discovered a tick in Julia’s forehead. It already was very deep inside so we left the storks in a hurry to find a doctor in Tykociny. We were lucky to get help easily and quickly which should not be taken for granted in the Covid times…
Once the tick was removed we grabbed some food (Bistro Krypno: delicious and at reasonable prices!) and ice-cream and drove North to the Tsar’s road (Carska droga) with high hopes to spot a moose!
Rafał drove very slow and carefully but we did not spot neither a moose/any other animal nor the police/national park rangers…
For that night we ended up in a camping in Rajgrod. Because we arrived very late, we were standing almost outside, just at the gate, but in a quiet and empty field. But the campsite was full, veeery much full. And seeing that nonexisting level of privacy and the crowd of people in the Covid times, I suddenly realised again how lucky we are to be able to do wild camping 😀
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