Forest and prairie hiking in ☞ Yellowstone Lake State Park, ☞ Governor Dodge State Park and ☞ New Glarus Woods State Park: 30+ miles, 3,000 ft total ascent, sunny days with 33+℃. Warm-up before the Smokys and beginning of Gokyo prep. Camped at Yellowstone Lake where big trees provide shade and little brown bats eat mosquitoes.
Dinner at “Siedem Drzew” (Piotr)
Siedem Drzew  ☞ Seven Trees is a restaurant, hotel and small private botanical garden in Biskupice Wielkopolskie (located 1 mile South of Poznan-Gniezno highway). Short walk in the garden and dinner..
24 hours in Wrocław (Piotr)
Itinerary: Poznan ➜ Wroclaw ➜ Cathedral ➜ ☞ Wroclaw Zoo/Africarium ➜ Centennial Hall-Szczytnicki Park-Japanese Garden ➜ Old Town Hall-Market Square ➜ Hotel Polonia ➜ Dunikowski Bulevard on Oder River➜ Old Town Hall-Market Square ➜ main train station ➜ Poznan
Lower Silesia-Jizera Mountains (Piotr)
Weekend bus tour of small towns in Lower Silesia, driving on very local roads through villages and fields, looking into history of the region.  Itinerary: Poznan ➜ Lubomierz ➜ Lwowek Slaski ➜ Gryfow Slaski ➜ Czocha Castle ➜ Swieradow Zdroj ➜ Stog Izerski ➜ Poznan.
Malta day 4-5: Gozo and back to Poznan (Piotr)
Itinerary: Santa Venera  airbnb@Triq Guze Pace ➜ Cirkewwa➜ ferry to Mgarr/Gozo ➜ Victoria ➜ Marsalforn ➜ Ramla ➜ Mgarr ➜ ferry to Cirkewwa ➜  @ Triq Guze Pace ➜ airport ➜ (Ryanair) ➜ Poznan.
More luck with busses today. Traveled by bus from Santa Venera to Cirkewwa, by ferry to Mgarr and another bus to Victoria to visit Citadella Victoria, We spent a couple of hours wandering around and ejoying great panoramic views of Gozo.
Gozo from Citadella Victoria
We then parked for lunch and Maltese food (tortas) at Cafe Jubilee. Took a slow country bus to Marsalform and then to Ramla to walk by the sea. Returned late to Santa Venera, just in time to run to Lidl to get some food for supper and breakfast. Flew back to Poznan early next morning.