We drank a couple
bottles of beer, then jumped into our sleeping bags and felt asleep
underneath the stars. That night was really cold and windy.
When I woke up, I
saw something that I found quite weird... I saw several bunches of
people, some of them standing next to us, staring at us, some of them
looked like they were on the school trip. It was 10 a.m. and we wore
warm clothes and hats while all those people around had flip-flops
and short sleeve T-shirts. Initially, I thought it was a dream but as
it turned out soon later it wasn't a dream ... We realised that we
were in the limelight...
We started looking
around and the view we had ahead of us was like a big screen of
National Geographic Channel - the immensity of the ocean with many
small islands way off in the distance took our breaths away. Tomek
and Bartek, our impatient paragliders, ran as fast as they could for
the equipment to start their dream, long-awaited paragliding
adventure! It's difficult to describe their feelings at that time and
what they had experienced in the air, but their huge smiles after
landing told us everything!
After a long,
exhausting day, full of excitement and different activities, we
returned to the car. Bartek went to the machine to pay for the
parking. He prepared 4 Euro as this price we saw by the praking
entrance. To our huge disappointment, the machine said: 48 Euro. What
was our reaction? Everybody screamed like a choir: "Whaaat?!".
We would spent this money on at least four dinners!! We are not
materialists but our expenses were carefully calculated so 48 Euro
was like fortune for us. It turned out that 4 Euro wasn't a single
fee but the price for one hour...We spent there 12 hours which gave
us 48 Euro.There is a common saying in Poland which perfectly matches
this event: "a Pole is wise after the event" ... well said.
Rebels!
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