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Entry from:
Bialystok, Poland
Entry
Title: "Bialstok, a stop-over on the way to
Russia"
Entry:
"Hi, I finally left
Warsaw!! Sad to leave
Marta and
Adam and all the friends I have around (special thought to my
Grojec friends! :)) but very happy to finally move on!
Right after getting my so waited
Russian visa, I hopped onto the train to
Bialystok! Therein, I passed almost all the trip leaning on the window frame, appreciaing the greatness of this fresh air in the face, after this so hot day.
Things were moving on again, freedom was mine like very few times I had been feeling it! When I arrived in Bialystok, I was directly picked up by Agata, a HC member who going to host me. So, I spent this evening and the day after with her and sometimes with Ela, a friend of her with whom I really had some good laugh!! :) On this Thursday, there was a bank holiday in
Poland. Poles celebrate a
Catholic event we don't celebrate in
France. I still haven't understood what it was! :(
Bible interpretation
... So, we were caught in the praying human tide and then went to a
Jewish cemetary (yes, another one...). The particularity of this one is its age. I don't know if
I've seen such an old cemetary, at least one that shows the work of nature through time. Well, just check the photos, it's impressive. The interesting thing as well is that tomb are marked on hebrew of course, in
Polish but also in
Russian as this part of
Poland used to be Russian for more than
150 years.
Salut! Je suis enfin parti de
Varsovie!! Triste de quiter Marta and Adam et tous les amis que j'y ai (speciale dedicace a mes potes de Grojec!!) mais je suis vraiment content d'enfin bouger!!
Juste apres avoir recu mon visa russe donc. Si, si le visa russe tant attendu... :) J'ai saute dans le le train pour Bialystok. La, j'ai passe la quasi totalite du trajet accoude a la fenetre, les cheveux dans le vent en profitant de cet air frais apres une journee si accablante de chaleur. Les choses bougeaient enfin, habite par une pure sensation de liberte telle que je n'avait senti que rarement! Arrive a Bialystok, je suis directement accueilli par Agata d'
Hospitality Club, qui allait m'heberger. J'ai donc passe cette journee et demi en sa compagnie ainsi que, de temps en temps, celle d'Ela, une copine a elle avec qui on s'est franchement bien marre! :) Ce jeudi etait jour ferie en Polgne, pour une fete religieuse que l'on ne fete pas en France. J'ai toujours pas compris ce que c'etait d'ailleurs. A chacun son interpretation de la Bible... Donc, apres avoir ete pris par la maree humaine en priere, on est alle visiter un cimetiere juif. "
Encore!" me direz-vous! Oui, sauf que celui-ci a la particularite d'etre le plus cimetiere que j'ai jamais vu; du moins celui qui offre le plus le spectacle de l'oeuvre de la nature a travers le temps. Par ailleurs, en plus de l'hebreu et du polonais, on lit aussi des tombes en russe.
Cette partie de la
Pologne ayant ete russe durant plus de 150 ans."
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Photos from this trip:
1. "-
Religious procesion in the center of Bialystok"
2. "- The mass"
3. "-
Entrance of the Jewish cemetray"
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- published: 14 Dec 2010
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