The trip to Szczyrk started with Monika’s first-ever time voting (parliamentary elections). We were among the first at the polls, because we had an equally early train to Bielsko-Biala to kick off our journey, before transferring to a bus. We stayed in an apartment at the Fenix guesthouse. It belongs to the mom of a friend of Monika’s, so we didn’t even consider anywhere else. I got dragged down a ski slope. Downhill, sure, but sometimes that’s worse than climbing up. My knees swelled up quite a bit 😛 Fortunately, we made it to the top on a working ski lift.