Kraków Equality March 2020: Thousands of Poles protest against homophobia and demand equal rights
The pandemic is not an ideal context to travel, however, encouraged by a friend and driven by certain nostalgia I decided to fly to Poland for two weeks last month. This visit was a special one precisely due to the context, since so many things have happened to everyone in the last couple of months that I felt there was a lot we could share among friends and family. I don't normally miss Poland that much. The food is delicious there, the climate in summer is often pleasantly mild and people seem much happier than they mostly appear to be. I'm definitely much more adapted to the life and mindset of people in Barcelona. Compared to Barcelona, Poland always seemed to me extremely materialist, capitalist, conservative and intolerant. However, this time I was very positively surprised by what I saw back in my home country, especially on the 29th of August in Kraków. On that day I went to the main market square with two friends and we were surprised by an unusual amount of police van...