Just got back to Warsaw after a 4 day backpacking trip in the Carpathian Mountains - much of the time right on the Slovakian border. Diana and I went with a group of mostly Poles and a few other international folks (Canadian, Dutch, Indian, French). It was sort of an organized thing - more organized than I had anticipated - but ended up being super fun. Beautiful countryside, lush green, lots of mud, quaint country villages, good company, good hiking. Polish people love to be social and do group activities! It was sort of a hiking club arranged through a student organization - our group was named "twisting in the bush". The last night out was a huge annual gathering of sorts of this hiking club with guides and trekkers - about 2 or 300 people
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