Visitors

Rózia

A few more interesting houses from our daily walks.

Rózia and her father, Marek Paluch
Luka, Rózia and Joan

Today, earlier, I was able to make Joan's life a little easier by finding an English version of the instruction manuel for our new washer machine. No more 6 dictionairies and trying to figure out what sentences mean. Tomorow we do the wash!!!!

After lunch of some great kielbasa, we took another walk to see more of the neighborhood. Each day we expand our walks to see more.

At 4PM cousin Luka came to visit with her husband Marek and their daughter, Rózia. Rózia is 5 years old and teaching me to speak Polish.

In the evening after kolacja (dinner) we went for another walk, stopped at the local store and bought water and then came home. We are going to observe Sundays, no work, only relax and enjoy the day.

I discovered a few usefull bits of information for us today, the first is about cost of bus tickets. In Poznań they have these central meeting places where busses and trams all meet, they're called Rondo's like Rondo Kampońiera. So if you want to go to Ikea, which is southeast of where we live, you can take what they call a direct bus there and it makes only a few stops along the way, cost (5.20zl (about $1.80USD) including the Rondo stop. If you want to go to Stary Rynek(Old Market Square) you can take what is called a normal bus with more stops to the Rondo and then take a tram, cost 1.90zl)(about 80 cents) then a tram northwest,cost 1.90zl. So we can cut our travel expense in half is my point. Poznań has the highest rated public transportation system in all of Poland.

The second is that I found a place where we can buy our drinking water at 1/2 of the price we have been paying at our local "7-11" type store. That's also good news for us. Little by little each day we get to know places where local people buy there goods cheaper because they know where to go