Not a single e-reader, let alone a paper book at this resort. Instead, I saw a baby in a stroller staring at a phone screen.
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“I read quite a lot… at home. But never in a place”
There’s a general idea in Poland that reading is a cold weather activity and the idea of ‘beach read’ is kind of a non-starter… so packing books on vacation isn’t really a thing here which means there aren’t so many interesting Polish books to be picked up at the hotel reading shelf….
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Ah, well. I never understood reading on the beach, either… probably because I grew up next to a beach with wonderful crashing waves and an undertow that claims a few hapless swimmers every year. One does. not. ever. leave children unsupervised near water. Not even for a second. Just in my local, friend-of-a-friend level of acquaintance, there’ve been five drownings in my lifetime– plus two little kids who survived being fished out of water not-breathing after ??? minutes. That’s without even getting into dumb tourist antics. There’s a certain informed paranoia that comes with that kind of exposure.
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