Month: August 2020 (page 2 of 2)

Kids fun in Nowa S贸l, lakes Szumino and Nies艂ysz

18 August 2020 / / 0 Comments

There is a park of dwarfs in Nowa S贸l that will make your kids happy. The entrance is free and you will find enough playgrounds and animal to keep your kids busy for 2-3hours.

The fun time for the kids was the planning time for me. With temperature of 30掳C+ we decided to look for some nice lakes and hang around them. And do we drove towards lake Szumino. On our way there we spotted the highest statue of Jesus in Europe. Although to me it looks like a statue of Aragorn from “the Lord of the rings” 馃槈

Lake Szumino appeared to be reasonably clean and the spot we found was good enough for an overnight staying but…

half an hour after we arrived, a tractor sprayed manure on a nearby field… The smell was so intense that we decided to look for another place, with some fresh air, for a change 馃槈 And so we found lake Nies艂ysz, with ctistal clear water and white sand on the beach 馃檪

This sign made me loughing a lot:

Toilet – 50m, running – 25m

Lakes Niesulice and Nies艂ysz

17 August 2020 / / 0 Comments

While looking for another lake with clean water and a sandy beach we found a convenient and quiet place at lake Niesulice.

But a tractor arrived to a field neighbouring with the lake … to spray it with the manure….

And so we decided to move….

And we found a lake with a cristal clear water, lake Nies艂ysz. It is a real pity that it got colder and cloudy the next day because we were tempted to stay there for longer.

Trail of wine and honey

16 August 2020 / / 0 Comments

In the surrounding of Zielona G贸ra one can find several wineyards. Some of them are very small, other bigger. Some owners would have time for the visitors, other wouldn’t… We were lucky to choose Ingrid wineyard to visit on Sunday afternoon. The owner, a smart and very charming lady, shared the story of her last 10 years+ and guided us around. Beautiful place, delicious wine and a very interesting owner!

A good introduction about the winery in the region is given in the centre of winery in Zab贸r (Lubuskie centrum winiarstwa). A self guided visit with an audioguide is free of charge and will take you about 30min.

艁uk Mu偶akowa

16 August 2020 / / 0 Comments

Cycling on a heavy rental bike (OKSiR in 艁臋knica, they provide child seats and helmets for free and have towed troilers for kids as well), with a child seat and 16+kg of a child was not an easy task, especially in 26C… But fortunately the good company and beautiful nature (anthropogenic) compensated the heavy duty 馃槈 and the day was beautiful!

Thank you Mirek and Asia for brining us there!

Geo艣cie偶ka in 艁uk Ma偶ukowa park
In the German part of the park

From one lake beach to another in Wielkopolska

13 August 2020 / / 0 Comments

We wanted to stay for a day at the shore of Jeziorsko lake that is known for lots of opportunities for wild camping. But seeing the tons of trashes left behind by the previous tourist, we knew we would not enjoy it there… Amazing how irresponsible people can be…

We moved severel kilometres North, to a small lake called Przykona. The nature was beautiful, but it is allowed to use motorboats on that lake so knew staying for longer is not an option.

On the next day Rafal took some time to have a look at our solar installation that seemed not to work as expected… Indeed two of the panels are not charging the second battery but fortunately the fix should be relatively easy, once we are back to our “base”.

He was lucky enough to secure all the connections on the roof right before a huge thunderstorm…

And do it was time to move forward… The public beach in 艢rem is excellent for families with kids. Free water slide for kids above 100cm (but smaller could to try it as well as noone is guarding it), clean sand and warm water (poor water transparency though – I lost my ring in the water and there was no way to find it back 馃檨 In that beach we also left behind the best sand toys of our kids, but we only discovered it on the next day :-/)

After getting enough (too much?!) sun we decided to move forward and visited a beach in Nowy Debiec, which occured to be a big holiday resort with a nice beach and dozens of small bars, ice-cream places and toy stands. Our kids loved it but we didn’t so we decided to look for another place… After having checked several forest parkings we ended up in a public beach in Dominice at the shore of Dominickie lake. We actually liked it so much that we stayed there for two nights. Nights of the falling stars 馃檪

Public beach at Dominice

Go艂uch贸w

12 August 2020 / / 0 Comments

In Go艂uch贸w we spent a lovely afternoon with quite some walking, especially for the short legs… The park surrounding the castle is well worth a walk and one can also visit the neighbouring Bizon reserve.

Finding a place for wild camping nearby proved to be difficult that evening do we ended up sleeping at the parking of a local camground (Goluchow – parking przy jeziorze), right next to the road. It was loud and in the morning we found a trash container lying on the ground next to our back window… It looks like someone was curious what is inside… So if you have time, look for a another place to sleep.

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