Good morning!
it's Saturday ... good day
the 9th March, 2019
and i'm in Poland, to ...
... do a parkrun!
in particular, we're in the town
when i say we, Vicki's here
of Żary, which is pronounced
Żary, "Żary", as we found out
Polish pronounciation ... very tricky
there's a certain thing, called the alphabet challenge
where - after you - you have to do
a parkrun that starts with every single letter
of the alphabet
the ones with the letter 'Z', i think there's one in Russia
there's two now here, in Poland. i think there might be one in Australia
but i hadn't even intended to do it, because
J quite hard, you had to fly to Jersey
i hadn't done U
I's quite hard, and Q's quite hard
and then when i did least used station in Buckenham
i did Ipswich, just because it was convenient, so that was I, and then ...
a new parkrun started in Britain
in St. Albans, called Jersey Farm
that was J, that means you no longer had to fly to Jersey
and i'm gonna be in Belfast, in a months time
doing Ireland, Nothern Ireland, where they have a Queens parkrun
so all these i've done, or will have done
without even trying, so that only left, this one here ...
Za ... Żary?
as a kind of a well
you might as well come and do it
so to do this, we got a flight from Gatwick airport
and also i did think that think we're you obviously record yourself inside the toilet, on the aeroplane
we flew into Berlin, went to Germany, went to Tegal airport
Gu dentag!
from where we then picked up one of the nicest hire cars i've ever had the chance to drive
and then you have to drive for two hours, and you drive
about an hour and a half down Germany, you cross the border
and then find yourself ... in ... Żary
you gonna drive?
yup!
Vicki's gonna drive
oh and by the way, we stayed at the Glast hotel
if you do there
and i see on Trip Advisor we're not the first parkrunners to stay there
just be aware there's the Glas 3 and the Glas 4
stay in the Glas 4, i presume it means four stars
it's a lot nicer, one of nicest hotel bathrooms i've ever seen
prestine, and clean! Glas 4
good shower! Glas 4
not Glas 3, and then it's only you could walk it!
we're looking at Google Maps you could walk it in like 25 minutes
but we're gonna drive down, in about
5 minutes - Hopefully! hopefully
it's eight twenty, so we're a little bit early
i've looked on someone else's blog online
Anna the Apple and there's a picture that she's taken over there
so i know we're in the right place
it's raining, there's a swimming pool
- Outdoors! an outdoor swimming pool
and it's ...
it's started raining really quite heavily
so er ... - and they're playing Simply Red
i don't have a hat, or my gloves
did you bring a hat or gloves? - i've got gloves
Can i borrow your gloves?
they're wooly ones - that might help
Czesc! Czesc are you watching 'how to speak polish' videos on youtube?
You can say Hi and Bye, you can say Czesc. - Czesc!
ok, so we made it, it's raining
this lady appears to speak a little English
err, yes
My english is, very very poor
but it's a LOT better than my polish! Chen Dobre czesc, Chen Dobre!
they've got cake, they've got coffee, they're playing music
and it's, it's raining!
i did it! Z !! we got the Z!
Yeah!
position ... position 30
in twenty-seven ... thirty-three
which is a season's
that's my fastest for 2019
it's undulating, it's woodland, it's rainy, it's wet
how are you? - i've eaten cake you've had cake!
man, i want cake
Woooooh!
i've been given cake ... i've been given
some kind of lemon tea
i've i've ... it;s lemon
i've realised i can't pronounce the polish word for lemon
because that's just too hard to pronounce
but that's it, fly to Berlin
or you can also gly to Prague, in the Czech Republic, it's also a two hour drive
come to ... Zary, stay in the Glas hotel
it's woodland, it's beautiful
they do cake, they do tea
they do dancing, dancing!
it's all good man!
that's Z!
thank you Zary ... Zary?
Z .. tick!
bring on Q, we have Q to do
to complete the alphabet