We are 'leaving October behind'. Halloween has come and gone and Christmas shopping season is about to start. Meanwhile, here in Strzegom all the preocupations are with today's activities, and practically all of them are centre in the city's two cemetaries. Today is All Saints Day, the day of the dead, and the Polish people have really taken this day to their hearts. The vast majority, if not all of the town's inhabitants will visit  the graves of their loved ones today. Some people will pay more than one visit. The first to make sure that the grave site is tidy and the flowers they have placed in the last few days are well arranged and looking their best, and secondly they will attend a ceremonial mass relayed to the grave yards over loud speakers, then it's back home for a spot of Sunday lunch. Some graves will be decorated opulently, while opthers do what they can, but mostly everybody brings somehting to the tombs. Police have laid on extra patrols around the cemetaries to prevent would be looters from taking the expensive flower displays and re-selling them in the local markets. All in all it is just a little too much for this Londoner, who, as a matter of fact has always shied away from grave yards, and always thought of them as places to be avoided at all cost, now finds himself involved in a tradition tha not only honours the dead but positively reveers them. oh well... When in Rome...
                                                                                                                                            Ta-ta for now... Frank