Sleeping in Sight of a World Heritage Sight.

TORUN.

Up in plenty of time for the run. In fact, I'd woken at 6:30 and didn't go back to sleep for fear of oversleeping. The organiser speaks excellent English and wants to put a picture of Bella on his news page. Two laps in a wood, slightly underlating, later, I'm photographed by Rosie with the nameplate. A young polish lad asks us to do the same for him with my phone. Happy to oblige and he organises the email side of it. Walking back to the van, my progress is tracked by a small feral kitten living in a waterpipe.

A long journey ahead of us, 200 miles or thereabouts. We stop for coffee at McDonald's, this is becoming a regular occurrence. Pass a huge statue of Christ in Swiebodzin. Including the base, it's 52.5 metres high.

Whereas the new road building hindered us yesterday, today it helps us. 30 minutes are knocked off our journey time. The site is in a great position, is clean and very tidy. A twenty minute walk and we're into the town. It's a World Heritage Sight and the buildings survived the bombing of WW2. It was the home of Copernicus, who first postulated that the planet's moved around the sun not the earth. Lots of other little stories about the town as well. The statue behind Paul is of their equivalent to the Pied Piper who cleared the town of frogs. The donkey with Rosie replicates a wooden one used to tie up miscreants before a flogging.

The local football team has played Wisdaw Lodz in a friendly and the town is buzzing with both sets of sets in a cordial atmosphere. The large police presence hopes to keep it that way. We eat out again, sampling the local beer and cuisine. Rosie opts for pork knuckle, I opt for buckwheat. Neither would have swopped with the other. We shared dessert, plums in alcohol and gingerbread sauce, delicious ( the town is also famous for its gingerbread confectionary).