It was a very strange year … A year at home. Like domestic animals, we had to get used to our corners, our mess, our home problems – big and small, furniture, neighbors … The option “go out and close the door behind you”, get some air, cool down, leave – it ceased to count. It was here and now.…
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CHANGES, CHANGES, MORE CHANGES
It was the beginning of the year. January. We sat at a table in the restaurant, happy to find a seat. As usually, we talked about everyday things, about who was doing what during the week. Nothing special happened in our lives, except that rumors of some kind of virus spreading quickly among the people of Wuhan reached us from…
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GAME OF THRONES EXPERIENCE
I’m not such a big fan of “Game of Thrones”, but I watched all seasons of this series. Like many similar productions, it began promising, and then its quality gradually deteriorated, and the last season turned out to be a great disappointment. However, I was glad to see Dubrovnik, the film capital of the Seven Kingdoms. *** Nie jestem aż…
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CHRISTMAS EXPECTATIONS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS
Each of us has some specific Christmas expectations. Most often they are related to childhood memories when we did not have to worry about anything, our favorite dishes appeared on Christmas Eve table, someone magically placed gifts under the Christmas tree, the house smelled of freshly baked cookies, the radio kept playing the Christmas songs that we knew by heart and…
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THE CITY IN BETWEEN SEASONS
It is amazing how much the same place can change depending on the time of day and the whims of the weather. This season the weather was exceptionally beautiful. The sun was reflected in the windows and glass walls of modern buildings. The world seemed magnificent, luminous, joyful. Pure gold. Every day we accumulated energy for the melancholy-rainy season approaching…
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RUINS OF THE LAROCHETTE CASTLE
Ruins of castles are really magical places. The walls embedded in the rock, rugged and ravaged by time, seem to hide thousands of untold stories. Just imagining the stages of building such a medieval castle makes a shiver run down your spine. How many people had to sacrifice their lives to build a defensive castle on such a high rock? Looking down…
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CHÂTEAU D’IF
blacker than the sea, blacker than the sky, rose phantom-like the vast stone structure, whose projecting crags seemed like arms extended to seize their prey Alexandre Dumas “The Count of Monte Cristo” A trip to the Château d’If is an attraction for really patient tourists, but the impressions from the trip are unforgettable. To avoid the horrors of driving the car…
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IMPRESSION
They did not understand me … I wanted to be different. Special. We smiled to each other, we nodded, but each of us remained in their world. I loved them. The more I loved them, the more I missed them, the more I created the distance … I did not learn to show my feelings. I was ashamed of my…
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MIRACLE
A huge rain cloud hung over the heavy dark world, throwing navy-silver streaks of light on the ground. The still air, frozen in anticipation of dangerous murmurs, hung terrified and unbearably thick. A metallic clatter of elevators and quite pleasant noise of pouring grain came from the grain warehouse, which – surprisingly – gilded purely in the dark. In the…
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MEMORY LANE
The bus threw me and the “Little One” at four o’clock at the “K.-crossing” stop. Nobody waited for us so we threw the bags on our backs and we plunged into the forest following a narrow road. From this intersection to the village were three kilometers and unfortunately we had to overcome them very often “on slippers” (which meant in…
