The second day of Christmas was really interesting! Here are some of the pictures, I'll write about it later, too much still going on!
The morning blue sky disappeared later under the grey clouds...
Despite cloudy weather we set off on a hike around the various distant areas of Skarżysko-Kamienna!
The road led us through the territory for decades occupied by MESKO Metal Works that used to provide employment to thousands of people. Not any longer.
By the road I mentioned earlier, I was delighted to meet the playful guard dog I remembered from the summer.
Then we went through the districts of Górna Kolonia and Skałka passing the pre-war houses built for the engineers working at The Metal Plant:
From there we drove to Rejów and on arriving looked at the half-frozen lake:
To the left of the lake there is the railway connecting Warsaw with Krakow and The Baltic Sea with The Tatra Mountains!
We parked the car by the lakeside restaurant and took a long stroll along the open air museum and up the hill past the original wooden dwellings of The Metal Factory workers built after WWII and still lived in.
A walk by Rejow Lake:
Rejow Lake Resort cat:
At that stage we were both ready for a cup of coffee ( I mean me and my companion, not me and the cat), but that was out of the question. Everything was closed. People were supposed to have coffee or tea at home on Boxing Day! We drove on, but the nice inn at Bór looked shut dead as well. We didn't stop to make sure and got to Bliżyn to show my friend the recently recreated Bliżyn Lake destroyed by floods a good few years ago. It didn't look impressive at this time of year and with no snow and frost...
However, far away, near the other bank of the lake we could see two keen ice-skaters and the sight puzzled us. To us the ice on the like looked far from reliable.
Our next destination was the the forest near Bliżyn. We left the car and went along the nice road taking us deeper and deeper among the trees.
On return we stopped in Bliżyn where, acording to the legend, King Władysław Jagiełło with his army stopped to rest for the night on the way to beat The Knights of The Cross at Grunewald in 1410.
New housing estate in Skarżysko:
A few of Skarżysko Christmas trees spotted on the way home:
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