29 APRIL - Tuesday

Tuesday, April 29, = = (Wroclaw City - Maps)

At 8 later, I put in a position to allocate only one drinking coffee at the hotel, HOPING to have breakfast during the journey that will bring me to the next step.
In recent days I have too many ground miles. I have to slow down my race, the evening is too stressed out and tired, it does not give me a way, to enjoy the journey.


Kępno km 75, where I stopped for lunch because of my stomach that muttering, remember that the night before, I was fasting and a coffee on the stomach = km 50 Zloczew km 22 Sieradz = Lask km 28 km 36 arrival in Lodz - (tot 211 km)

Lodz = (Lodsch) Population 774,000

E 'una città extended but his heart is reduced to be a long way "Avenue Plotrkowska". There are numerous banquets and mini-pub offering beer, no less than half a liter,...


cheap, sandwiches, pizzas and desserts of all kinds especially salty.
Interesting city with many monuments, the complex Księży Mlyn, some museums, among which I quote the history of Lodz and tissues of contemporary art.
There is a characteristic shared by the city more or less alike that I have crossed and visited, and which in all suburbs of these cities were built in the Soviet residential buildings, which look very much to those of the suburbs of our cities, but their drabness, as the lack of maintenance, the rough and finish from all architecturally similar, making the landscape not very pleasant.
In refuel petrol ask the gas station, where can I find accommodation for the night, I wrote a ticket to the address of a tourist office, where they can find an adequate place for me. Set the address on my gps and allotment.
The office is located in a side street to street Plotrkowska within the office, I will present a modern and elegant, the known lack of signs to tourist attractions, in place, valuable paintings of the invoice and pleasing to my eyes, with comfortable armchairs and carpets of warm colors, the information desk, a young blonde girl with a beautiful smile, is willing to see an accommodation that is of my liking.
I recommend a private home with their convention, where I can have dinner, since I will stop only for a night or two and spending is contained, I accept.
I ask you the address but it surprised by doing, tells me that will be one of the family who will be here to draw on agency and I will bring a destination. The time to read on a comfortable armchair, a couple of pages of a magazine, which arrives in an agency guy, she invites me to follow him.
We go out, I make the sign of go back to my car, since he arrived by bicycle, almost can not stand behind what pedaling fast, within minutes we reach a road with houses with a floor, in front of one of these stops and I have to indicate where to stay.
I opened the door a very elderly lady, who accompanies me nicely to my chat room.
I must admit that were all kind and after having a bit challenged in order falls on the ground floor, the lady asks me if I want to eat alone or in company of his family, since the purpose of my trip I choose the second option.
I am surprised to have lunch with a dozen adults and children, half an hour before the house seemed deserted, the lady I presents some of them and eating, deepen mutual understanding, at the end of dinner I compliment the cook, mocks you do with shame.
Once women have sparecchiato, we men, with the usual bottle of vodka and glasses, we sat at the table, while the women disappear behind the children.
As always, I refuse to drink more than a drink, telling the same lie required, by this way to them, content in what we drink and the chance to exchange more seriously knowing one another.
I come to know a pretty harsh reality for these men, who, fortunately, at least in countries that I visited so far, is changing.
The frustazione of many men from the East was given by the sudden change of the Member Company to which they were accustomed, that is, to a degree of safety 'future, for themselves and their families, however, cost, a heavy control over their personal ambitions and legitimate of free choice of life. Now you must adapt to rapid change and pressing all the way they think and act in a new company, made up of selfishness and lack of an adequate social protection umbrella, because until a few years ago, from an omnipresent state.
Although these men the following day, should go to work, stay up late to chat.
I go to sleep but with the intention, the next morning to share because I can not wait to get there as soon as possible in Tallinn and then return to a familiar reality even more different, in cross-country.

> (DIARY DAY FOLLOWING APRIL 30)