When travelling slow, you have the luxury of stopping just for fun. Yours or your kids. Combining the two is even better and sometimes it’s pretty easy 🙂 A stop to prepare coffee and play in the sand is a good choice 😀

Visiting Skit in Odrynki was a very relaxing experience. The walk on a wooden sidewalk surrounded by the grass, water and birds… I have to admit that the choice of location for this hermitage was excellent!!!

On our way to the hermitage…

After buying honey and having a friendly and very informative talk to one of the four hermitage custodians, we drove a little bit further to a free campsite in Bondary, on the shore of the  Siemianówka reservoir. We stayed there for 3 nights and would not mind to stay longer. In the weekdays it becomes more quiet after 6 but the nights were very peaceful. The playground, sandy beach, a possibility to swim and the free shower made the time very easy for all of us.

Nerby Siemianówka lake, in Trzcianka and two other villages, you can find old wooden houses, some of them with beautifully painted windows:

And colourful eastern orthodox churches full of history and sometimes also people eager to share these stories with you!