Sometimes I’m being accused. Of leniency. Of being too soft with lapsed Catholics, when they request baptism for their child, or their wedding, or a Catholic funeral for a deceased relative. Sometimes practising Christians seem to expect me to adopt a stricter and tougher approach, leading either to the refusal of requests from the lapsed or to the extraction of…
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I left you for less than four weeks, and what have you done in the meantime at the General Election? I went to Poland to save the Presidential election there, but that effort too failed spectacularly, as it was not won by my candidate. My enormous authority is now in tatters, both there and here. And – just in case…
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My previous walk was to be the last one during this year’s holidays. Yesterday I went out for a short stroll in the evening, and decided to follow the circular ‘Nordic Walk’ blue trail, crossing and running along the river Bóbr (Beaver). I hadn’t had any plans to describe it as it’s short and seemingly unattractive. However while walking I…
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There isn’t a plenitude of tourist trails around my home town. Those few of them I’ve already bagged but one; something classified as a nordic walk, marked with red signs. Only recently I’ve discovered that the trail I’d rather despised is actually pretty long (30 km) and by its sheer length demanding enough. I decided to give it a go…
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Sunday was the last day my friends and I spent in the town of Polanica Zdrój. We were to head back home after lunch, so our walk had to be relatively short. Our chosen destination was Castle Szczytnik, about 4 km away. We started at the front of our accommodation and went up the tarmac road for about 5 minutes,…