Chill out day

Well today is chill out day. Got up and went to breakfast and this morning had a bowl of chocolate ball type cereal follwed by Nutella on bread, not your usual breakfast but still very tasty. Could not eat it everyday though.
The day had started with what the Irish call "soft weather" a very light drizzle, so I decided to do a little clothes washing before popping out for a little walk around Elk. The town itself looks quite nice, and another change from the 3 previous countries was that the flats, (very few houses) although very poor looking in means of repair, all seem to have flowers on the balconies. It is obvious that the occupiers take some pride in the surroundings.
I wandered about and eventually came to the railway station and a subway under the tracks to the Elk Narrow Guage Railway Musuem. What the hell, surely its worth a look.
The gates were wide open but there was no one about at all so I just wandered into the yard and had a look around. It appears that the narrow guage railway was built at the start of the last centuary to help get the Polish economy back and track. From the look at the rolling stock and engines on the tracks that was about the last time anything had been worked on, as witnessed by the poor state of the engine in the photo below.
There was one smaller engine that did look a lot better and on certain days you can take a ride to a neighbouring town about 40km away...you,ve guessed it, one of the days was yesterday and the next one was on Sunday, oh well, back to the hotel.
Whilst walking back I saw the below little group sitting in the "soft weather" trying to sell a few jars of home picked berries, I also saw a couple of old women trying to sell a couple of bottles of milk, I suppose it is one step removed from openly begging.

That reminds me of when I entered Lithuania, I went into the 1st town to go to an ATM, you never know if you need fees to drive on the roads, and its always nice to have a little local currency in any case. I withdrew some money and it gave me a single 200 Lita note, the eqivalent of about £50.00. I went back to the bike and I was approached by a scruffy male who was a little unsteady on his feet to say the least. He then tried to speak to me in, very broken

English, and was asking where I was heading to, he then tried to give directions. At the end of that he asked if I had any change, at least he had the honesty to say that he wanted it so that he "could buy a little drink", if I had the change I would have given it to him for his honesty, there was none of this " 10p towards a cup of tea" crap.

Anyhow, back to the hotel, via a corner fruit store (cherries and plums) and a supermarket (bottled water and Milka chocolate) and back to my room for a brew, hence the bottled water because the water from the wash basin tap has a definate yellow tinge. As it was still drizzling a bit, I had my brew and cherries whilst lying on the bed reading from my Kindle, next thing I knew I woke up about 2hrs later and the sun was peeping into the room. It was nice to have a little snooze I must admit.

I have reviewed the next few days and the plan (at the moment) is to ride down to Warsaw tomorrow for 2 nights camping in a site near the town centre, that will be followed by 3 nights camping just outside Krakow. I am really looking forward to Krakow and I will use it as a base to see the city, Auschwitz, and also the giant salt mine just outside the city.

I will then cross into Slovakia and I have found a pension (guest house) at a town named Liptovsky Mikulas, which is about 20 km from Vlkolinec, another place that has been recommended to me to visit. Following that I have 1 night at a pension in Bojnice before crossing into the Czech republic.

However, that is all getting well ahead of myself and I have loads to do before then.