Lubię Grillować

Which roughly translates to "I like to grill!"

In true Australian/English(?) fashion we decided to have a Barbie/BBQ for our dinner this evening. We had managed to pick up a small BBQ from Tesco for a meagre zl 10 (about £2 or $Aus 4!!). Tonight's dinner was meant to be a test run for Saturday (when we're having some friends from the British Embassy round for dinner).

A few people had questioned the 'legality' of having a BBQ on our balcony in an apartment block, but we shrugged it off (we're sharing type of people after all!)

I fired it up and all seemed to be going well (albeit a little bit smokey). I had reached the part where the coals had turned white and I was getting ready to add the burgers/sausages when a fat Polish lady appeared in the garden below and started waving her fists and shouting Polish at me! She seemed angry for some reason....

We both cowered in the apartment for a while (laughing) but there was no escaping the fact that there was a fat Pole (now accompanied by a security guard) outside....

Amy slinked out onto the balcony (as well as a pregnant lady can 'slink') and received a barrage of Polish abuse from the fat lady. Apparently she hadn't liked the smoke/smell and it was against regulations to have a BBQ on the balcony. Amy told her that she didn't understand (which she did) but again, surprisingly(?) the lady wasn't too happy!!

We're lucky in this place as we've got a 2nd balcony(!) and so when she had eventually stomped away we moved our (burning hot!) BBQ out of sight and continued to cook our meal. Perhaps we'll just have curry on Saturday night :)