Białystok

Just a quick overnight stop and our first impressions of Poland were very different to what I was expecting! I had an image of Poland being just another cheap, run down Eastern European country. Well, yes, it is cheap, but quite the contrary otherwise! Poland has some incredible countryside from forests to farmlands and really had a SA feel to it (probably aided by the great weather we were experiencing here too!). The houses are all really well kept and the farms immaculate! On our way to this city, we passed again close to Belarus and went through parts of what remains of the oldest forest in Europe (The Bialowieza Forest). It was in this area that I saw an actual wild EURASIAN WOLF!!!!😁😁😁 Such a rare and lucky occurrence with almost no one I know being able to boast the same claim! It was however very fleeting (it ran across the road in front of me from 1 side of the forest to the other), so sadly Emz didn't get a chance to see it either.😔
Bialystok was a nice, non touristy city with a small but nice old town and it was definitely worth staying the night. We were also shocked at how cheap everything was. Poland is by far the cheapest country we have stayed in up to this point. Things were definitely looking up in Poland!☺️Les mer