

Rounding
a bend a policeman stood in the middle of the road, with a small 15cm paddle
stop sign in his hand, he waved us to stop. We stopped. He came to the window
and looked into our car. He asked ‘English? We replied ‘Yes’. Then he abruptly
asked, ‘Papers?’ Feeling like we were back in that movie, being chased by the
KGB, we wondered, which papers did he want to see? Richard handed over his international driver’s license, but
that wasn’t enough. The answer was he wanted to see the registration papers of
the car. After a quick search through Richard’s luggage the correct ‘papers’ were
produced, dually inspected and much relieved, we were allowed to proceed.
Our
second surprise, 20kms before reaching the park was an amazing town built on
and around a waterfall. Why you would build your house so near water that it ran
underneath your floorboards and beside your front door? We are not really sure.
It looked spectacular, but it would be rather dangerous to encourage a toddler
to play outside.

With
snow still on the ground and ice receding from the lakes we were privileged to
see these natural beauties beginning to wake from their long winter
hibernation. It was indeed hauntingly beautiful.
exciting and educational...
ReplyDeletewhat made the fields burn in Winter? Warfare?