Krakow to Michnowiec

On est deja le premier octobre, je devrais arriver aujourd'hui dans la ferme...toujours a Cracovie, la distance n'est pas si longue mais passe Rzeszow, les transports se font plus rares.. Ustrzyki Dolne a bien une gare, mais les trains sont tres rares - le reseau de bus est bien meilleur, donc Krakow > Rzeszow en train, arret dejeuner et cartes postales a la Poczta Polska, et quelques heures plus tard Rzeszow > Ustrzyki en bus.
Merveilleuse nuit de camping pres de la voie ferree inutilisee, a l'ecart des maisons...sans commentaire :) sinon que la tente est extra, qu'il y a un vent du tonnerre, et que j'ai hate que le jour se leve.
Reveil 6h, camp leve 1/4 d'heure plus tard, je retourne jusqu'a la gare routiere ou je suis arrivee hier soir. Le premier bus pour Czarna est a 8h35, aucun pour Michnowiec, en tout cas a partir d'ici. Le temps de prendre le temps, de manger un petit dej achete au supermarche du coin - beaucoup sont ouverts des 6h!!!- , de voir defiler les collegiens et lyceens qui vont en cours... le bus arrive, et on s'eloigne de plus en plus de la civilisation...quelques fermes, quelques villages, quelques maisons en bord de route, des paysans travaillent la terre a quelques centaines de metres ; on est bien loin deja des lumieres et boutiques de Krakow !


I lost the phone number of the WWOOF farm somewhere on my trip, didn't remember the exact name of the ranch, nor the last name of Agnieska and Andrej ; only the village Michnowiec, which should be close to a small town named Czarna, a few kilometers away from the bigger town Ustrzyki Dolne...

I left Krakow with a map I bought in the subway galleries, checked the names of the towns and villages that should get me to the farm where I was WWOOFing, and hoped for the best ! The map was a good one, but getting farther and farther from Krakow, you are also getting farther and farther away from both people speaking english - or even german for that matter -, and fast transportation. On the evening of the first of october, I was only in Ustrzyki Dolne, where I set a quick camp close to an old railroad, only one or two trains using it in the day.

Michnowiec itself is a tiny village very close to the Ukrainian border (15 min on foot), 7 kilometers away from Czarna. You reach it by taking a small road east instead of continuing south towards Ustrzyki Gorne and the Bieszczady mountains, in the midst of fields, fields, and... fields. A few houses also along the road, horses, cows, crosses, hay stacks, beautiful view of endless fields broken only by a few lines of trees, ukrainian hills in the distance.

The hardest part was finding the Ecofrontiers Ranch itself (I remembered the name somewhere along the way...), trying to ask the farmers about it making gestures and drawings, of course I forgot all about the windmill which might have helped a lot..
A wonderful woman in a big red farm, an old kholkose building, told me how to get to the deer farm at the end of the village - a place where I could work and with a big place to sleep, actually a hotel and restaurant under construction :-) There a man speaking english showed me the house of Andrej Czech (I also remembered the last name after a few hours), that we could spot on top of a hill in the distance.
Crossing the fields with my backpack, I got stopped by borderguards, who finally brought me to the ranch!