The church on the hill behind Zawiercie. When I got lost yesterday wondering around, it was my reference point, my beacon on the hill. There are a lot of churches in Poland, perhaps unsurprisingly. Ewa sometimes comments that despite there never being much money, especially with older people, whenever a new church is going up there's never any shortage of it.

bricks for utopia

Came across this massive pile of bricks, wondering around Zawiercie yesterday. It seems self-explanatory enough, until you realise that it's been there for over 20 years and dates to the communist era. Some guy probably bought them simply because he could, not trusting in the flippancy of a brick market controlled by the government. His reasoning might've gone, "there are bricks available, I don't know when more bricks will be available - I should buy these bricks!" this thus might be an unassuming monument to the perversity of communism.