Winter break?

I've just been offered the chance to go to Poland over the Christmas holidays. K and G, two of the people we met in Assiut, are so much fun and it would be a great holiday. Here's the itinerary:

I have to reserve place in the mountains (at this time it’s not easy to find free place for living, so it must be done earlier). I will write you exactly how we can spend this time in Poland:
- We can meet in Gdansk on 27 December and stay here two days for visiting.
- Then we are going to the mountain to the place called Bialka Tatrzanska.
- We spend there four nights (it one of the best polish resorts and not very crowded).
- Of course we spend this time for skiing, snowboarding or walking- as you wish!
- One day we can go and visit Zakopane - popular polish city, very original and beautiful.
- For the party we should go to the Mountain and say hello to the New Year!!!
- After this we can have fun until the morning in the hotel or bar.

- Costs depend on what you want to do!!!
- Boarding in Gdansk – free
- Traveling to Bialka Tatrzanska - about 20 euro (return journey)
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Boarding there - about 8 euro per night
- Skiing - about 10 euro per day
- Other costs for eating and pleasures - depends on you!!!

If you have any questions let me know!!!

Kisses,
K


Reading it again it sounds even better, but I doubt I'll be able to go. With out BSc final exams in early February, I need to start full throttle revision very soon. At least I've made a start.

Moc

Sand art

Some stunning sculptures from another forwarded email. What are your creative talents?

Black in London

Hi all

I'm back in London now, after a three night stop in Frankfurt. My sister picked me up in our recently purchased second-hand Nissan Micra (she'd never sat behind a steering wheel when I'd left!), so I didn't have any problems carrying back all the textbooks I'd bought. The first thing she did when we got back home, though, was a bit strange. She'd got it into her head that spending two months in Egypt and swimming in the Nile (I stupidly went in once) would morph me into a different creature, and she spent five minutes inspecting me from head to foot for any changes before pronouncing me normal. That night I did the same, and there have been a few alterations. First of all, I'm expectedly much darker – I'd pass off as a Nubian no problem – but the distribution of the tan isn't uniform, and you can easily tell the style of sandals that I wore for much of the trip's duration. Secondly, I'm thinner! I put on a couple of kilos in Assiut, but I lost them and more subsequently, and I'm now only 90% Moc. Finally, during my stay I'd gradually developed these absurd stretch marks around my shoulder and groins, but after a week in Europe they're all gone. I think they were due to sleeping in a star shape in an effort to maximise my surface area and cool down during the stiflingly hot nights in Egypt, and thankfully I don't have to do that any more. Boy did I miss British weather!

Hope you're well,
Moc