


Joan and I want to wish a Happy Birthday to cousin Ron Kazmierczak, his 65th.








We went to Golina today, to visit cousin Kazia and her son, Andrzej. Also to take Andrzej with me to the real estate agency where I would get the address of the house for sale in Grodzieć. To tell you the truth, I was expecting to find a house in need of extensive immediate repairs for the amount of money asked for this place. It's a standard two floor block house, with small kitchen connecting to a breakfast room on side of the first floor and living room or dining room on the other. It also has a laundry room, pantry, bathroom and room for the central stove that is heated with coal. The stove is old and should be replaced. The house was built in 1985. The floors are all wood. It has a rather steep staircase leading upstairs where there are two bedrooms. living room, den and another bathroom. Behind this house is another house being used for storage and an attached garage. That house would need a lot of work to make it habitable. The property itself is rather large, 1 1/4 acres. It sits at the end of the village on a road leading into the village. In the front of the house it's landscaped very nicely with trees, bushes and flowers. It has a beautiful blue spruce tree behind the entrance gate. The trees are old enough that it blocks most of the view of the house. I liked the house but Joan, because of her ankle, did not see it yet except for the pictures I took so no decision was made to buy or not to buy.
Sometimes it's difficult to understand why events happen they way they do in life. The first 8 years of my life were spent in a strong Polish community in North Hammond, Indiana where seeing and playing with different cousins was an everyday occurrence.


Nothing new. Some pictures of Poznań at night. I had an email from the real estate company that is handling the sale of a house in Gródieć. I wanted to set up an appointment to see the house so I wrote to them. They replied that they had no agent available to show me the house but I could come to their office and they would give me directions and the address of the house. It is currently occupied so the owner would show me the house and surrounding grounds. I find it really strange that the agency is selling a house yet has no one to show the house to clients. That kind of thing would never happen in the U.S. I'm hoping that cousin Andrzej will not be working on Saturday afternoon and can accompany me for the visit.
Today I had to go to Pikary street, to the store that sells medical braces for people with fractured ankles. I figured it would cost 50-75 zl for these two pieces of plastic with Velcro. Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When the girl told me the price I was totally surprised....200zl. 200 zl for two plastic pieces. I asked why it was so much and she told me because we have private insurance and not national. If we had national coverage the cost would be 60zl. That's quite a difference. I thought I would wait until our national coverage begins on May 1st but she told me I would have to make an appointment with a national doctor and he would have to write a prescription for the brace. She said I could wait from one to three months for the appointment. By that time Joan's leg should be healed and she needs the brace now so I paid the money, took the brace and walked back to the bus stop to catch #63 back home. 200 zl....what a ripoff.


The gate to the palace
The main building


Front door
Right wing
Main building under renovation
Left wing
Grounds behind house
Back view
The wallking mound behind the palace
Old oak trees
A beautiful day today and I just couldn't stay inside all day. I made lunch for Joan, made sure she was OK and then went to Rogalin, to see the outside of the palace. The inside is being renovated and you can't go in this year but the grounds can be walked on and you can view the outside of this magnificient palace.