Pears at the Giant Peach...
After my bottomless cola and Tim’s trip to the museum of communism we travelled to the Giant Peach, home of Andrew Jones and family to see if anyone was about. Having navigated our way from the tram we were greeted by Erica and Rebecca, who are living at ‘The Peach’ over the summer, on vacation from Hawaii.

We chatted for a while and discovered that Tim’s super power is that he has the brain of a sports almanac – ‘almanac man.’ After some pears and water we headed back to Sir Toby’s, where we met Jeremy and departed for Joe’s Pizzaria for tea.

Jeremy assures me that I must try this drink (something ‘sunrise’) that has OJ, ice and vanilla – as served in the coffee chain ‘Coffee Bean’ (next time I’m in Cali...)

In the evening we ate Strudel on Charles’ Bridge with Tim, Tim (from Canada), Krys (Poland) and Jeremy after I did some gathering at Sir Toby’s (‘Dude, you comin out for strudel?’)

Darek and Eva in Gliwice
We are currently at the home of Darek and Eva, some friends of Tymek (Polish version of Tim) who are now my friends ;~) Darek picked us up from the station (after our 6 hour journey from Prague) at Gliwice and has brought us to their home here where we have had lots of fun. These guys are so warm and hospitable.

Yesterday we visited their local swimming pool – in the open air in the middle of a forest!

The weather has been lovely, I’m not sure exactly how hot, but the evenings are cooler than those of Prague which is good.

Ali and Kerry are here from Glasgow too.

Uno with Darek...
Last night we were up til 12.30 playing Uno with Darek... we all donned Polish names for the occasion – I’m Jasiu and Tim’s Tymek. It was very funny. We played the 7’s rule where if you put down a seven everyone must put their hands on top of the pile and the last one to do so picks up two cards (bear in mind that everyone but ‘the guys’ were in bed and that we were laughing very loud). Darek is very funny.

Tomorrow we head to Krakow.