Jackub was a great leader as a) as you can see he likes bears b) being Polish he speaks great Polish which is very useful especially when we found that the few words we had learnt, we weren't pronouncing correctly and c) he loves his country, so was the perfect person to tell us all about it.
Once all the group were assembled we headed by bus for Zakopane at the foot of the Tatra mountains taking our bikes in a big trailer, making us quite a long vehicle.
Zakopane is very beatiful and a favourite holiday spot of Poles, Germans and Russians, obviously not of the Brits as we didn't hear a single British voice while we were there.
In the winter Zakopane is a very busy ski resort. Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, one of the first things we saw on our warm up cycle ride round the town was the world famous ski jump. We had no idea it would be so big and it looked simply terrifying (our photo just doesn't capture the fearsome aspect). Nevertheless there was a certain allure, and while our minds said 'no way!' our legs voted otherwise, and the next thing we knew we were at the top of the jump trying to spot our minders and give them a wave so they didn't miss our jump.
It's just such a shame that we are too small to show up on the photo our minders took after Yorkie had the brainwave of phoning them up and giving them the shock of their lives by saying we were about to jump.
Action bear Chelmer is really proud of us. We don't think we've ever done anything as scary though as that jump. Perhaps the experts get used to it ... we think that would take us a very long time!
Lots of love George & Yorkie 'The eagles' xxx
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Blimey you were brave! Bet you managed a very "polished" performance of course. Eddie the Eagle, eat your heart out!
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