Kazimierz Dolny

About two months before Audrey was born we visited a small town to the south of Warsaw called Kazimierz Dolny. It's a lovely little town, populated by artists and mobbed by (mostly) Polish tourists in the summer months.

When we last visited the town we had travelled down by train, but this time we risked the journey by hire-car.

Driving in Poland is a lot like being on the road with everyone around you playing the computer game, Grand Theft Auto. In case you've never played it, basically you drive a car by forgetting any road-sense, trying to overtake people at the most ludicrous situations and never ever decelerating. Incredibly we got there and back in one-piece despite a number of near-death experiences(!)

Anyway...Kazimierz is a beautiful town, and we were lucky that we were there in really lovely weather. It was hard work at times pushing Audrey's pushchair along the cobbled streets and we were grateful to have our new back-pack that enabled her to travel in absolute luxury on our backs(see pic).

Last time we had been to Kazimierz we had managed to see and do a lot in a short amount of time, but, with the addition of Audrey our venturing around the town was a bit more restricted.

We did manage to visit a small gallery (Galeria Autorska) in the town and buy a lovely pastel picture and met the artist who was a charming lady.

There is also a really nice tea shop which we had frequented last time, and once again we sat and relaxed drinking 'Chopin' and cranberry tea in the sunshine.

We returned to Warsaw on Sunday evening our hire car intact, but our nerves in shatters after the drive!

The quiet streets of Kazimierz - a sight only ever seen by insomniacs or families with small children who wake up before the crowds!