Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
- Region
- Europe
- City
- Mazovia, PL
The Family Day Picnic at Social Care Home of Bramki
Poland celebrates Mother's Day on 26 May. Many of residents of the Social Care Home (a nursing house) in Bramki have lost their Mothers or Fathers but there is always the Family present. Hence, the Family Day was organised there, and I quickly rode for 16.7 km to spend the day with my daughter Magda on Sunday.
Magda dreamed of meeting her Daddy on that day!
It was an open-air picnic for several hundred people. The spacious decorated area was filled with tables with cake, sweets and cold beverages. Anyone could help themselves to get fruit jelly, fruit or hot beverages but that was not the end of it! Works of the residents were shown as one of the many attractions of the day.
The SCH owns a huge, beautifully maintained park (they even have a small brine graduation tower!) and many buildings. There, the stage for the event was prepared.
During the artistic part, the residents were singing (Magda is barely visible on the left). The lady in yellow had prepared the whole show, that included singing and dancing (of the families). The carer came from Ukraine (the Black Sea part), and mastered spoken Polish to the level she could nicely sing in our language with only traces of accent! I was especially moved when she sang a beautiful song in her own language!
We won a gift in a lottery!
There were many attractions. For instance, Magda got her arm painted...
With a unicorn! And her face...
Was decorated with flowers! She even got a colourful ponytail!
Fried sausage or black pudding were available, too! We were so full Magda didn't need to go for lunch!
My total distance ridden was only 33 km as I took the shortest way. I rode at high assistance to complete each leg trip in a record time! There is a nasty bike path for some 5 km; it was my nightmare in the past, so I used to take long detours to avoid riding it. Now, with my fully "gravelized" Vado SL, I could ride that short route at a pretty high speed and totally comfortably!
Saska Kępa Days (Saturday)
The day before, I rode my Vado SL to Fregata restaurant bar in Warsaw for lunch. I was not aware that was the time when the most beautiful of Warsaw neighbourhoods, Saska Kępa (Saxon Meadow), had her holiday!
Saska Kępa street monikers are mostly geographical names. The quaint avenue there, Francuska (French St.) was made a pedestrian zone for the holiday. French St. is only five (short) blocks long, yet it has given the flavour to the whole area, being the most artistic street of Warsaw!
Yes, we do have the United States Avenue and the Canadian Street in the quarter!
While the U.S. Avenue is the southern border of Old Saska Kępa, the George Washington Avenue forms her northern border! (I used to live in the African Street, New Saska Kępa for 17 years).
There were several stages around. While slowly riding my Vado SL I saw something I was unable to understand at the first sight! It was a rideable even if weird tandem hosting a drumset, keyboard, saxophone and other instruments as well as a huge umbrella. The man was singing and playing instruments as he was riding the thing! I could not miss seeing what happened next!
The man on the wheels was one Sambor Dudziński, a jazz singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was using a looper to perform his songs to a great applause!
Saska Kępa has a sizable North African community that has nicely blended into the artistic character of the area.
Enjoy Sambor singing, and also see the holiday life in Warsaw! Can you notice how many bicycles can be seen there?
Ladies and gentlemen, that's the high school in Saska Kępa I attended 1976-1980. 35th Lyceum (Bolesław Prus). The street belongs to the triad of the "combatant" ones: Fighters', Defenders', and Victors' Streets.
Funnily enough, there's the Ireland Str. but no British, English, Scottish or Welsh streets in Warsaw
I hope you could stand this overly long post!
Poland celebrates Mother's Day on 26 May. Many of residents of the Social Care Home (a nursing house) in Bramki have lost their Mothers or Fathers but there is always the Family present. Hence, the Family Day was organised there, and I quickly rode for 16.7 km to spend the day with my daughter Magda on Sunday.
Magda dreamed of meeting her Daddy on that day!
It was an open-air picnic for several hundred people. The spacious decorated area was filled with tables with cake, sweets and cold beverages. Anyone could help themselves to get fruit jelly, fruit or hot beverages but that was not the end of it! Works of the residents were shown as one of the many attractions of the day.
The SCH owns a huge, beautifully maintained park (they even have a small brine graduation tower!) and many buildings. There, the stage for the event was prepared.
During the artistic part, the residents were singing (Magda is barely visible on the left). The lady in yellow had prepared the whole show, that included singing and dancing (of the families). The carer came from Ukraine (the Black Sea part), and mastered spoken Polish to the level she could nicely sing in our language with only traces of accent! I was especially moved when she sang a beautiful song in her own language!
We won a gift in a lottery!
There were many attractions. For instance, Magda got her arm painted...
With a unicorn! And her face...
Was decorated with flowers! She even got a colourful ponytail!
Fried sausage or black pudding were available, too! We were so full Magda didn't need to go for lunch!
My total distance ridden was only 33 km as I took the shortest way. I rode at high assistance to complete each leg trip in a record time! There is a nasty bike path for some 5 km; it was my nightmare in the past, so I used to take long detours to avoid riding it. Now, with my fully "gravelized" Vado SL, I could ride that short route at a pretty high speed and totally comfortably!
Saska Kępa Days (Saturday)
The day before, I rode my Vado SL to Fregata restaurant bar in Warsaw for lunch. I was not aware that was the time when the most beautiful of Warsaw neighbourhoods, Saska Kępa (Saxon Meadow), had her holiday!
Saska Kępa street monikers are mostly geographical names. The quaint avenue there, Francuska (French St.) was made a pedestrian zone for the holiday. French St. is only five (short) blocks long, yet it has given the flavour to the whole area, being the most artistic street of Warsaw!
Yes, we do have the United States Avenue and the Canadian Street in the quarter!
While the U.S. Avenue is the southern border of Old Saska Kępa, the George Washington Avenue forms her northern border! (I used to live in the African Street, New Saska Kępa for 17 years).There were several stages around. While slowly riding my Vado SL I saw something I was unable to understand at the first sight! It was a rideable even if weird tandem hosting a drumset, keyboard, saxophone and other instruments as well as a huge umbrella. The man was singing and playing instruments as he was riding the thing! I could not miss seeing what happened next!
The man on the wheels was one Sambor Dudziński, a jazz singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was using a looper to perform his songs to a great applause!
Saska Kępa has a sizable North African community that has nicely blended into the artistic character of the area.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's the high school in Saska Kępa I attended 1976-1980. 35th Lyceum (Bolesław Prus). The street belongs to the triad of the "combatant" ones: Fighters', Defenders', and Victors' Streets.
Funnily enough, there's the Ireland Str. but no British, English, Scottish or Welsh streets in Warsaw
I hope you could stand this overly long post!
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