Our final stop of the day was the village of Stare Bukowno, another volunteer unit and again, literally not three minutes drive from the last station.
When we had been planning this trip, we mostly used Facebook as most volunteer units have their own page. We were really pleased when these guys offered us free accommodation for the night, as the station is a combined community hall/wedding office/hostel. We were bowled over by the kindness shown as ALL stations, who would insist on bringing food for us, drinks, you name it.
Here we were introduced to the Chief who didn't speak a single word of English (luckily the guy we had liaised with had studied in England), so after apparatus photography we were told the Vodka was coming out again!
Before we got drunk we got our cameras out, we were told that we could take one of the rigs off road to a forest and get some nice pictures later on, so in the meantime it was an ex German Magirus Deutz 192 pump, we believe this to have been ex Munich.
When we had been planning this trip, we mostly used Facebook as most volunteer units have their own page. We were really pleased when these guys offered us free accommodation for the night, as the station is a combined community hall/wedding office/hostel. We were bowled over by the kindness shown as ALL stations, who would insist on bringing food for us, drinks, you name it.
Here we were introduced to the Chief who didn't speak a single word of English (luckily the guy we had liaised with had studied in England), so after apparatus photography we were told the Vodka was coming out again!
Before we got drunk we got our cameras out, we were told that we could take one of the rigs off road to a forest and get some nice pictures later on, so in the meantime it was an ex German Magirus Deutz 192 pump, we believe this to have been ex Munich.
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