Visiting the ones close to your heart is always joyful and beautiful!
But Puck and Hel peninsula are worth paying a visit even if you do not have family living nearby.
The Hel peninsula is full of history, picturesque places, delicious fishes and sandy beaches. It is also very windy so do not forget your hoody!
On our way to a family celebration in central Poland (85th birthday of my grandpa!) we had a stop in the Blue Springs nature reserve and the nearby聽Museum of Pilica river.
Museum of the first Piast at Lednica is well worth seeing. We spend beautiful half a day there. We would have liked a bit more information on the history of some of the places and objects in the nuseum and I installed their virtual reality mobile app that was supposed to help us. Unfortunately the app was not able to detect the GPS receiver in my phone and later it was crashing while starting… Well, when “computer says NO” the discussion is over 馃槈
In the afternoon we visited the nearby Museum in Dziekanowice. Unfortunately we only had 1.5h to the museum closing and so we were not able to see it all. One would need at least half a day to complete the tour. That is well recommended, especially if you speak Polish and can ask the guides in every building for some introduction to what you see.
That night we spent on a free parking between the two museums, right next to the beach. The views on the sunset above Lednica lake were truly beautiful.
As we needed to reach my hometown in few days for a celebration of the 85th birthday of my grandpa (120 lat Dziadku!) we started our journey South-East and found another lovely lave for an afternoon relax and a lovely day after, the small but clean and charming Stubnica Lake nearby I艅sk.
We were a little bit disappointed with Woli艅ski Park Narodowy, but we only visited it as walking tourists. Seeing from the water must be another story… Anyway, the parkings next to the trails in the National Park were pretty busy so finding a place required patience. The trails (Kawcza G贸ra and Jezioro Turkusowe) as such are nice but the number of view points is very limited. So if you enjoy walking in the forest, you will like it, but do not expect seeing much more than that.
Centre of Slavs and Vikings in Wolin is a recreated Slavic Viking settlement, with medieval craft demonstrations in Wolin can be a very interesting 1h-2h stop and if you speak polish it can keep you busy even for longer. We could talk to an archer, a locksmith and taste (and buy) artisan food. It must me even more worth coming there during medieval markets and local events!
On the very hot day we were looking for a refreshment at the Baltic see in Mi臋dzywodzie.
But for the night we sought for a more quiet place, nearby Wrzosowo at Kamie艅ski Lagoon.
After spending a night at a channel nearby the crooked forest in Gryfino, we went there for a short walk. Indeed it is very interesting to see so many trees bent in a similar manner. Unfortunately it is unclear how and why these distortions were made. They are manmade for sure and the rest is unknown.
After this short visit we moved forward North, to the D膮bie lake, looking for a nice peaceful beach with clear water to swim and cool down a bit (34掳C on that day).
In Bystra and Lubczyna the beach was clean and pretty empty, but the water reminded of a green soup.
And so we moved more to the North, to Szczecin Lagoon, to find a very peaceful beach few kilometres after St臋pnica, in Czarnocin.
The water was equally green in there, but the views and the emptiness made us stay there for the night 馃檪
A lovely place to celebrate the 14th anniversary of us together, with a bottle of wine bought in the winyeard visited few days before from … plastic glasses made for kids by a well known Swidish company 馃檪
Anyway, it was served in a perfect temperature 馃榾
艁ag贸w surprised us and very positively with a beautiful park right next the castle and at the shore of a lake. This place is full of history and a romantic charm…
From there we moved forward towards Lubniewice. We stayed overnight at a forest parking with a view on the lake.
And in the morning took a stroll around the park of love. A lovely morning…
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:
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.
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