August 6

August 6th (sunny and warm)
We were a little slow this morning. I was totally engrossed in reading the end of Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy and couldn’t put it down. As most of you know, I do not read very much, but I really like her books. We did not need too much more sun today so we did not get down to the beach until noon and stayed until around 3. Georg is quite enjoying the Polish “eye candy” at the beach. The women are either very beautiful in their skimpy bikinis or extremely fat. The men are generally quite large and that can also mean quite fat.
We decided to eat at a restaurant today and really enjoyed our food. Fresh or smoked fish is one of the mainstays of their diet in this part of Poland. Prices are quite good in Poland, but not as inexpensive as we had heard. We also found an internet café, had some delicious gelato and walked around the very vibrant town of Leba.
We also noted that the strong family values are present everywhere here and are keeping children well behaved and always at play at things that we used to do unlike the “electronic” generation back home. Sometimes being poorer has a silver lining.