As long time readers will know, Chris grew up with a lot of Polish influence in his life since his grandparents on his mother’s side were both from Poland, but came to the UK after the Second World War. We…
Wesołych Świąt! (Happy Christmas! (Merry Christmas! (Feliz Navidad!)))
Chris grew up celebrating a British Christmas day, but also celebrating Wigilia, which is the traditional Polish Christmas Eve, as his maternal grandparents were from Poland. This was our first attempt at doing Wigilia on our own. The word comes from…
Day 147: The ‘Last’ Day
We headed across a small bit of Wisconsin to Michigan. We were absolutely exhausted and we ended up going the wrong way and having to reenter Minnesota and then go back into Wisconsin. There was very little in the far north…
Day 41 Part 2: Baltimore, Maryland
We headed into Maryland’s biggest city, Baltimore. Chris was very keen to visit because after the Second World War, it was one of a few places his Polish grandparents were offered to live. His mother could have grown up there…
Days 24-26: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We took a few proper days off at my friend Val’s. We didn’t venture further than the local Target the first day in Media and mostly did video editing and hung out with Val’s cats: On the second day we had…