Saturday, January 07, 2012

Saturday shopping.

The flat temperature is slowly rising. Today it's 19.5c inside but last night it was cold enough to sleep in long underwear and one of those old night caps would have been nice.  Amazing how long it takes to heat this place up to a comfortable level.

We left at 11:30AM to meet with Z and exchange stories of our travels in America and his in Bulgaria. He went there to spend the holidays with his daughter.  He brought his laptop to show us some of the pictures he took while there.  He said it was still a very depressed country with some villages completely empty although where he stayed the city was well populated and catered to English and German tourists.

Later we went to do a little food shopping for the week at our supermarket. It was packed with people, the main reason I hate to shop on Saturday but this time it was a necessity because we left no food in the house before our vacation.

On the right side of the blog is a From Poland with Love series of video's Rob Strybel, a journalist/writer, American ExPat living in Warsaw for a long time, sent that's informative about modern day Poland.

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Po prawej stronie tego bloga jest od Polska with Love serii Strybel Rob wideo, dziennikarz / pisarz, Amerykanin mieszkaj膮cy Expat w Warszawie przez d艂ugi czas wys艂a艂 to informacje o wsp贸艂czesnym Polska.