Exploring a granary

Yesterday was the last day Sári’s friend spent with as in Warsaw. We drove to the airport, but this time we didn’t go to the good old Chopin Airport, because her flight started at the other airport of Warsaw called Modlin. When I say Warsaw’s other airport, I mean an airport nearish Warsaw. God, it’s 40km from the city center! Reaching it takes about 40 minutes, and costs around 20 zloty – I’m not 100% sure I’ll check it for tomorrow’s blog! – meanwhile it’s only 30 minutes to get to Chopin.

Anyway, back to the story, we drove her to the airport – oh, and one more difference at Modlin you can park for 10minutes free, but in Chopin just 7 minutes are free – dropped her off and went exploring. The plan was to see something interesting in the area, and I was in charge of finding a place. I found some old building 7 minutes from the airport, I read about it and it was claimed to be difficult to reach, so naturally I decided that is the place to go! We parked near a supermarket’s parking lot and walked 40 ish minutes to the building. It was a bit annoying when it turned out we could’ve just parked basically next to the building, but what could you do. It was a bit confusing whether we can enter the teritory of the granary or not, because there were signs of course only in Polish language, and fances, but there were also paths going around the gates, so we figured we should also give it a go -- just as the other hundreds of people did, whom created the path. When we got to the building we were staggered! We were staggered by the size of it, and the huge number of tourist who were walking around the place! (Maybe they all were foreigners who had no idea wheter they can enter the place or not, but I think this was not the case.) Sára had no idea about where we were going so, she was especially surprised! As it turned out it was an old granary – I thought it’s something like an old folks home dedicated to grandmas (you know granny; grannies), but as it turned out it is a place where they stored different seeds.
The place was somewhere between a ruin and a granary which is about to fall into pieces. It was built in 1840s – which should have meant it is full of bricks that has letters on them, but it didn’t… unlucky – and it was used till the 1930s? The World Wars didn’t do any good to the structure of the building, the roof and most of the sealing is gone. The building was bought by some rich folk who wanted to rebuild the whole place and use it as a hotel – which would be epic – but honestly, I have some serious doubts about it happening. Anyways here are some pictures of that great place.

After the exploring we headed home, but before we got home we went to Aldi. Or Lidl, seriously who can tell the difference?! Anyways, we found new kind of Sommersby for Sári, so we decided we should buy them. When we got to the cashier he asked for our ID card. When I told him I didn't have them on me he didn't want to give us the cider! WTF?! Dude seriously thought we were underaged?! Thanks God he accepted my studentcard, so we got what we wanted. But still what the hell? 

This little shock was the end of our day, I hope you enjoyed itn and see you tomorrow,

Take care,

Almos

Location: Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland

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