Modern Poland in the middle of nowhere

Again (and especially this time) it is hard to say Bye-Bye - but I guess I'll be back in a couple of days or weeks driving a VW Sharan from Berlin Lithuania ;-)

Traffic starts to pick up as soon as we enter Poland and as we pass the "Masury Lake" district we get stopped several times due to...traffic jams! We had forgotten what a waste of time thick traffic is and we start to wonder how the people living on one side of the road will ever be able to visit the other side without taking a holiday. They'll probably need a week to cross the road.

It is easy to understand why huge road construction sites don't bother the people at all because they are promised a highway to reduce the transit truck traffic. We ask ourselves how that is supposed to work out since usually Polish highways are privately owned toll roads and are far too expensive for the regular truck traffic. As long as cheap consumption is the main driver for the national economies areas as the Masury Lake district may loose their ecologic charm...

We manage to leave the traffic craze behind us and while the shades are getting longer we try to find our way to the next accommodation - a goat farm. Time to realize that the regular H4 driving lights on the Buddha are worth shit and we are quite shocked when at the very last second we see a huge deer buck at the side of the road just contemplating whether he should pass the road in front of us or behind us. Luckily he makes the right decision and we arrive at the goat farm with the last light of the day.

Another warm welcome by the owners of the farm and a wonderful large room with a huge panorama window awaits us. Later at night we have an interesting discussion with the Junior and his girlfriend about their enthusiasm for Europe and the interesting European initiatives trying to bring the East of Poland and the Kaliningrad enclave closer together in infrastructure projects.

There still is hope for Europe and hopefully the pro European powers in Poland will be more successful in the future.En savoir plus