Travels in the van 2023: Poland Part 2
Wednesday 13th September From mountains, forests and valleys, we're heading once more into the city. This time it's Kraków. We have errands to run on the way, the food shop, an obligatory fly-by to Decathlon to replace a lost item. This time it's my cycling sun-visor. It's been so sunny that I'm struggling without it, my reactolite cycling glasses don't adapt quickly enough to dappled sunlight and the road surfaces in places are patchy and potholed. It's a good few hours of motorway driving, with no more than the now familiar convoy of lorries to note. We realise that in the grand scheme of things that we've been in Lower Silesia this last two weeks, one might say not Poland proper at all after 500 years of being part of Germany. I'm on the lookout for any discernible change in architectural detailing, but there's not much to see enroute. It's the hottest day yet, and we arrive just before dusk to Camping Smok, not far from the Vistula rive