exam session

Hi!

As everybody perfectly knows we are AGAIN in exam session. After four years of studying I'm quite bored that I have to constantly think about what I should do, what I've already done etc. etc. I'm thinking about: How do you wreak your stress and all frustration? I know some solution like for example eat more than always (chocolate, HARIBO's stuff etc) , go running or watch one more time the episodes of your favourite serial. Do you have some extra idea that you would like to share with me?:)

Portugalete

After 10 days we finished our Camino de Santiago, was in Portugalete: really picturesque city with Puente Colgante.

What's interesting, our new destination was still Santiago de Compostela but we have to be there in 2 days , not in 3 weeks so we had to hitchhike. The worst thing was (as always) leave the city and get to highway. We were waiting more or less one hour for the lift. During this time one Old Lady came to us and say: "Spanish people are not use to hitchhikers, nobody will take you...You didn't know? You should go to bus station and buy tickets or to airport" then we tried to explain to her that it was NOT our first time hitchihiking in Spain so she shouldn't be worry. After few minutes she went away , kept saying "Nobody will take you, nobody will take you". After three minutes Old Gentleman stopped and took us to the highway. From patrol station took us really peaceful and kind marriage. They invited us to go with them to the wild beach which was on the way. There we had some picnic all together and then we took a rest. Great time! Then they left us near to Santander and we decided to spend the night on the beach:)

"The lovers" - René Magritte

"The lovers"

René Magritte

René Magritte was born in 1898 in Belgium and he is one of the representatives of surrealism. His pictures are full of magical realism and as recipient can just suppose what René Magritte wanted to say us when he was painting.

I have chosen the picture titled "The lovers" becouse I consider that picture as really thought-provocking. 

In the foreground we see the woman and the man kissing eachother. Which is suprising they are wearing shawls ( so we can not be sure that we see woman and the man not for example two women). This fact can have various meanings. One of them (in my opinion the best one) is that love or desire is universal and it is not important whoose face we will see in the picture. The second option is that the lovers hide some feelings, facts from they life or love, as a feeling, is sightless and we don't see or we don't want to see one's faults.

The light is coming from left-side of the picture and it is catching on two heads in shawls. In the picture we can see one more light's effect: is the use of repleted colours as red and blue. Red can represent desire and love and blue can represent silence, water or life. 

It is quite interesting how the man is dressing. He is wearing black jacket, black tie and white shirt. In many pictures of René Magritte men are wearing that outfit. Meybe in that fact  the author wants to put himself in the picture?

René Magritte painted the second picture, titled the same and with two lovers in shawls. What feeling can be reprsented here?

Camino de Santiago part II

Next day we started our walk from San Sebastian. I remember that during the night was a big storm and it was raining all the time and that's way in the morning was quite cool. But even as we saw at 6am people were surfing already and running :) That day was really hard. We walked again 24 kilometers  and my feet started to rebell. Oh, I've mentioned what kind of shoes did I take with me? Ofc, just sneakers which wasn't good option for that kind of walking! My ankles moved all the time so when we were in the mountains I could twist it in any moment! The only thing was that everybody admired me that I was still alive :) Those mountains in the north of Spain are really tough. It's not only becouse you have to climb and go down but also becouse they are full of clay, streams etc. So remember to buy climbing boots becouse otherwise you will suffer like I did. 

Although I had those small problems it was one of the most active, interesting weeks in my live becouse I really have to fight with myself. We've met really nice people like one family in Guernica which gave us a place to sleep (we didn't want to pay 25euro for albergue so we just wanted to ask them if we can put a tent near to their house so they invite us to their house, gave us a food etc.) During that one week we noticed that people no matter what we use to say nowadays enjoy to help eachother:) 

The Way

Hi Everyone!

I haven't been here for quite long time! It's difficult to start writing so today I would like to recommend you another movie but in this case it is really related to one of my topic which I trying to describe you in this time. This movie is titles "The way" (in polish "Droga życia") and basically is about Camino de Santiago. One of the aspect which this film presents is the relationship between Daniel and his father Tom (Martin Sheen). Daniel dies on the Camino de Santiago in the Pyrenees and his father comes to France to take his reamains. Unexpectedly he decides to finish what his son has started.
I rcan really recommended that movie. Ofc it is a typical hollywod movie, I don't say that not but the history is presented in really interested way and what's the strong point of that film is that you can really go into the world of Camino de Santiago becouse it shows it quite well. Ecpecially you can focus on details  like shelter for pilgrims, credencial etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueDALC6E8_0

1st day on Camino de Santiago

Today, I would like to share with you my first day's experiance on Camino de Santiago. As I wrote it started in Irun. We had 25 km of walk to San Sebastian. We woke up around 6 o'clock. Los hispotalieros (refuge's hosts) put some religious music which was a little bit scarry and to be honest not a perfect music to wake up enthusiastically. Then we had breakfast, some cookies, muffins and coffee so it was really spanish. At 6.30 our first day on the camino started. When you are pelgrim on Camino de Santiago you need to follow yellow seashell which are painted on trees, sidewalks etc. They're really easy to find  especially in Basque Country. It was really hot day so we were really sweating but the good thing is that every 3-4 km you have a spring, really fresh and cold. 
After 4-5 hours we got to beautiful, picturesque villiage named St Pedro. From there we had to take a boat to other side of coast. Ofc we stopped there for more than hour to take rest and eat lunch. Then we had 10 km to San Sebastian. It was really hard becouse we had to climb and then walk down all the time. When we got to San Sebastian we didn't do nothing except into the Ocean:)

Papusza

Hi!

I know that my blog is basically about my last year's trip but from time to time I would like to change the topic.

Today, I would like to recommend you the polish movie "Papusza". The director of this movie are Krzysztof Krauze and his wife Joanna Krauze. The film is about Bronisława Wajs, she was Romani poet commonly known as Papusza which means ""doll" in Romani language. The movie presents her extraordinary life: she was very good poet but she didn't have much lucky in her life, she couldn't share with her poems becouse of her culture. I don't want to write more details, you just should read something about Brinisława Wajs, read her poems and then see the movie.

If you like or you are interested in photography you have to see that movie! The shoot are incredible!!!They are made of Wojciech Staroń and it is not the first time when he does such a good work. What's more I strongly recommend you soundtrack from "Papusza". I add you one song which is promo and the second one is Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz's music. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uytIHVZLkU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evMRgLq_Umg

Enjoy!