Eunos Chump

It appears I was wrong about the old town, it's been largely rebuilt after being laid to waste towards the end of WW2.  You'd never know from looking at it though, so give me a break!  I've also become suspicious about the authenticity of a castle located near Paris, apparently owned by one 'Cinderella'. I'm back in the UK now, but other stuff I failed to visit was the cathedral (I'm a bit of an architecture enthusiast on the quiet), and fort VII , which was used by the Nazis as a concentration camp.  I'm not sure I'd actually want to see that, I'm now aware of this city's grim history and can't see it giving me a positive experience. Poznan is disappointingly non-Soviet.  Apart from the odd Polonez, everything on the road is recent Western European or Japanese.  The standard of driving is much better than I was led to believe too, it's certainly better than London.  The concrete tower blocks are still present but colourfull

This week I'm not on holiday in Poland; Poznan to be exact.  It's like Norwich, but with trams and an utterly impenetrable language. The centre of the city is very old and quite unspoilt despite it's past.  There's lots of great looking restaurants and cafes, I'd visit them if I could do anything with the language, and I wasn't on my lonesome. The only MX5 I've seen has been butchered for a sat nav demo.  This was in a shopping centre, and except for the language you couldn't tell the place from London or Washington; same brands, same decor, same big posters of George Clooney wearing his expensive watch.  Outside of this most stuff is very cheap though. I'm doddering about in this Golf diseasel.  I'm quite foggy on the rules of the road but I'm surviving, despite the sat nav trying to send me down one-way streets on several occasions.

We were on holiday in a little cottage near Falmouth last week, enjoying this magnificent English summer weather.  Here are some vaguely interesting snaps I took, mostly from the Eden Project which is ACE and highly recommended:  Vintage bikes at Flambards theme park:   ...and finally a seal from the Cornish Seal Sanctuary: The Picasso has got just short of 2000 miles on it now, yet it's filthy.  I was hoping it would gain a bit of horsepower with use, but it's still unenthusiastic about going anywhere quickly.