Poland

This past August has been a whirlwind of traveling, most of the month being occupied with my trip to Poland. I was there for 9 days visiting relatives in Warsaw. The trip was at the tail-end of my summer vacation and we were just able to squeeze it in. So, the first half of our stay would be spent in my Grandma's apartment and the second half spent in my Aunt's apartment.

The first few days of this trip were just spent to get our bearings and try to overcome jetlag that plagued us during the flight. But on the third day of our stay we ventured out of the house to a big recreational park about 20 minutes to get to by bus from the apartment. There were many options there of things to do but nestled in the back was a "line park" that my Grandma discovered a few weeks back. The concept is kind of confusing at first but I got the hang of it. You are given two carabiners of clips to hook on to the two lines that are on both sides of you. There are platforms on trees about 30 feet high and between are certain obstacles. There are also lines between trees that you would zipline across with the block that they provide you with. So I took the challenge and chose the one that suited me best. At first it was kind of tricky but towards the end I was wisking across the obstacles and was an expert in no time. So two days later, since I liked the "line park" so much, I came back to take on the next trail. Trail "Extreme" was much harder than my previous one, "Adrenaline," and took a lot more strength. I went through three hard stages until I came upon one that I could not get through. A big disadvantage to me was the fact that I was not tall enough to grab the wires at the top so I had less balance and stability. This trail was also much higher, at 45 feet. It turned out I had to be brought down by one the instructors, who complained that this was his 5th evacuation on that day (their website is veni-vici.com.pl).

Our stay at Poland was nice since we haven't seen our relatives recently. It was a good way to top off a very good summer of traveling.