A week before Easter, the conference hall of the County Office in Sieradz once again hosted the annual Sieradzkie Stoły Wielkanocne. This popular local event attracts visitors from across the region who come to experience a traditional Polish Easter food display and see how Easter traditions in Poland are still practiced today.
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Blue hour at a flooded lake in early spring, where last year’s reeds and distant birds shape a quiet, in-between moment
You don’t notice the light first here — you notice how the lake begins to breathe. Wind moves through the trees behind you. Water shifts quietly at the edges of the flooded ground. Somewhere out there, across a surface that’s hard to read in the fading light, come the scattered calls of birds — ducks, coots, grebes, swans. Beneath it all, a low, steady murmur: frogs waking after winter.
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It was one of those early spring walks when nothing seems fully decided yet — winter still lingering in the air, but the ground already waking up. The fields on the outskirts of town had just been sown, rough and uneven, with fresh green blades pushing through the soil. I wasn’t expecting much that day, but then I noticed a rook in the fields — calm, unhurried, walking as if it had all the time in the world.
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That morning, the Warta valley was still waking up — cold air, soft light, not a soul around. Then I saw the jay that paused on a bare branch, looking straight at me. Most days, they stay hidden — a flash of blue between the trees, gone before you can raise your camera. But this one gave me a look and a few seconds. That was enough to finish the memory so the image could tell the same story my mind kept replaying.
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Looking for an early-season gravel adventure in southern Poland? The Cienkow Loop gravel ride near Wisla delivers open views, quiet ridges, and a surprising lack of snow. Early March in the mountains usually means winter slowly loosening its grip, but this year spring seems to be arriving ahead of schedule — except on the ski slopes, where snow cannons are working overtime.
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On the last day of February, the weather felt more like spring than winter. The usual chill had vanished, replaced by +16°C, clear skies, and sunshine — a perfect day for a walk.
Continue reading A Surprising February Walk: The Sparrows of Winter
