A sunny evening in Oława

With only 13,000 steps on my pedometer - and aiming for an average of 17K I took a little walk around Olawa...

Although "Rynek" has been recently done up

and there is a very simple and moving Katyn memorial - with a recently placed/replaced photo of one of the victims...

There is not much else to the town - suffers from being too close to Wroclaw.

There is development and reconstruction taking place but there is a long way to go

Of an evening it still has that slightly edgy small town Poland feeling - groups of men and youths all with that typical Polish "small time gangster/full time thug" look - driving over noisily and over fast in cars that look entirely too expensive for the occupants.  I am sure that most every one of them is a nice, reliable citizen - just the "hair and dress" style makes me nervous.