Instead of flying or taking the train somewhere, we drove to the nearby city of Stargard. Founded in the eighth century the city has old churches, and many medieval walls and towers remain standing. It's also where Cezary drove us last weekend to catch the train, so we hoped to find the Chinese restaurant again.
We left around eight am, since nothing is ever open early in Poland it seems. On the way we stopped and checked out some village churches. We're really impressed with my new phone's camera, by the way. We even found one with an open door and peeked inside.
It seems every little village has a Catholic church, still in use that was restored after WWII. We took a smaller road Garry had biked (partway- it was 40 kms and he'd done 23) there and a slightly bigger one home, so more churches! It started raining, and we had not brought coats, so we were happy that it had pretty much stopped before we got to Stargard.
Yes the one church has a wooden tower and the inside church photo is actually this church with the stork nest in the photo.
We found a place to park near the old city wall and started our walking tour. We were disappointed to be told the museum was closed, but there were some signs on the route with English on, and we didn't get sprinkled on much, so the morning was a success.
Around 11:30 were heading toward the last church on the walking tour route when we walked right past the Golden Dragon restaurant, so we went back when it opened at noon and enjoyed lunch before finding the van and heading back to Novagard, finding more churches along the way. We did see and small dairy farm and checked out what was growing in a field and nearly got stuck... and still don't know what the crop was!
Sunday went to Cezary's church and took our usual afternoon walk after lunch out at a restaurant by the lake.
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