22nd June: Polish Hospitality

After 2 nights of very little sleep, today all of us decided to sleep in a little later. When we finished preparing, we were welcomed by a huge spread of breakfast. Dagmara's mom prepared for us when we were still deep in our sleep. Lucky us, today was a pretty good day, so we all decided to have breakfast on the balcony of her house. Frankly, this is my first time having breakfast on a balcony, overlooking the beautiful garden, in a big mansion-like house. Haha I was so excited that suddenly I feel so sua ku!

On the balcony

Anyway, a good coffee always makes a perfect day. When we are talking about coffee in Dagmara's house, I meant real good coffee. Coffee from freshly grounded coffee beans, served from an over 1000 pounds coffee machine. Yeap. Can you smell the scent of the coffee in the air now?

Great coffee

From a travel website that we read, Polish people show their hospitality by ensuring their guests are well fed, even that means they have to go broke. Well, Dagamara's mom didn't went broke. But she certainly take good care of our stomach, not letting them growl of hunger. Look at the breakfast spread on the table beside assorted cheese, cold cut meat and bread, we have this tomato thingy which is both boyfriend and my favorite. I just can't get enough of them*slurp* It is tomato slices topped with cucumber, feta cheese and garlic spread, garnished with dill.

The delicious tomatoes

Polish sausages. As long as my finger

Polish donuts

After breakfast, we went around Kalisz town to explore and after we took a 20 minutes drive to another town called Goluchow to see Zubry or bison. Okay, I'm actually not a big fan of wild animals. So, the experience for me was just so-so. Furthermore, their fur was not really very nice. It seemed that they hair drop problems, with patches of baldness on their bodies. And they smell really bad. We even caught one of them pooping :D Hahahaha! This Bison farm is situated in a natural reserved. To reach this park, one have to walk through a small "forest". And on the other side, there is an old palace where visitors can go in to visit. But too bad all the explanations were in Polish. So we decided to just cam-whore.

Zubry,smelly zubry

Tonight's dinner was a barbeque session with Dagmara's family since the next day was a public holiday for them. And again we experience Polish hospitality with loads of food. First up we have cabbage stuffed with meat. According to Dagmara, if this dish was to translate to English, it literally means pigeon! This is really good stuff. Next, we have a lot of bbq-ed meat. Their bbq style is different from us. In Singapore/Malaysia, we bbq what we want to eat only. But in Poland, someone will be in charged of ccoking all the food and others will eat. After dinner was rounds and rounds of beer drinking. It was a very good night, only if the sky did not decide to rain. Everything was shifted indoors. A little of a mood spoiler but still a fun night.