We met our friends Radek and Dorota at Białystok station, and caught the next local train up to Czarna Białostocka 25 minutes away. We walked around Czarna in search of the narrow gauge line, reportedly to be opening but there was no evidence of operation. There was aslight disadvantage that the line into the Knyszyn Forest was severed by a major road. We followed the yellow trail along forest tracks into the forest towards Supraśl. The wood anemones were in full bloom and the leaves gave a shimmer of green. With our portable sun god, Lucky (pictured), the weather held and we were spared the attention of the roaming thundery showers. Our route finished by the sandy hills near Podsupraśl, a steep set of ridges rising out of the plain formed by glacial action, probably an
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