The weather forecast called for rain all day, so we had intentionally decided that we would hang out in François with no plans except for a late lunch at the small cafe attached to the campground. We had arranged for a typical Polish meal with the mother of the owner of the campground.
We enjoyed a nice relaxing day waiting for the rain that was forecast to last all day to begin. While it was still pretty cold, the rain didn’t actually begin until 5 pm after our dinner. The place is very quiet and the only noise beside the occasional car are the birds chirping and the stream babbling away.
At 3 we went to the cafe for a 5 course traditional Polish meal. The cook/mother explained each dish to us. Ton really loved the soup and the carrot salad. We also tried some local wines which were better than we expected as we are pretty far north and Poland is not known for its wine.
When we were paying the mom told us that she has been working hard on her English, but she really had a hard time understanding the English of people from India. We thought that was a strange comment as this part of Poland does not look like a hot bed for Indian tourism. She than told us that two years ago a Bollywood film was partly filmed here, and that they had up to 150 people on site during the filming. Because of that Bollywood connection they are getting quite a few Indian guests. We were not surprised that someone picked this place to make a movie as it is that beautiful, we were just surprised that the film was an Indian one.
We also learned that the logistics of our trip are going to get a little bit complicated at the beginning of May. It turns out than in addition to May 1, which is labor day, that May 3 is Constitution day in Poland. Because they fall on Wednesday and Friday this year we were warned at dinner that a lot of people are using vacation days to take a 9 day holiday. We are probably going to have to plan on booking our places in campgrounds during that period, instead of just showing up like normal.