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The last great adventure

This story starts like any other story and if you are a reader like me you will know the exact words "Once upon a time". Once upon a time there were two little children: Lukas and Maria. Lukas was 6 years old and Maria was 3. They were a little sad because that was their last day of vacation at the seaside. As Lukas came out of the hotel he blinked in the sun and he checked his greatest treasure, in the pocket of his trousers: a beautiful and perfect seashell which he found on the beach. Then he looked around to the white hotel, the blue swimming pool, the green palm trees, so different from the trees of his country, the bushes of  rhododendrons and in front of the hotel the golden beach and the bluish-green sea. He closed his eyes and tried to picture the landscape in his head, so he will be able to take it in his mind when he goes home. But he was interrupted by the steps of his little sister. Maria was dressed in her favorite yellow summer dress with strawberries on i

White Winter Night

"How strange humans are! How little do they see! How little do they understand! Hidden in their small world they can not see beyond. Carrying on with their every day activities they stop looking around them, they lack the ability to remark the most beautiful things, they see it as ordinary.” Winterfairy was standing in her crystal chariot and her long white hair was blowing in the night wind. Her frozen blue eyes were peeping through the darkness. Her smooth white face with red cheeks and purple lips could easily fool you. She looked like a teenager with porcelain skin and crooked smile. Yet thousands of years had passed her by. The chariot was flying over a dark pine forest carried by two white horses with large and gracious wings. The night was dark and freezing cold. But this seemed not to affect the fairy, covered in her white and warm furs. It was the night before Christmas and Winterfairy decided it was time to cover the world with her thick and cold layer of snow. Large

St. Peter's Church, Vatican

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One of the most impressive churches that i ever visited was the St. Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican. The church is located in the St. Peter in Vatican and a very interesting and long history. Almost 2000 years ago St. Peter, 30 years after the death of Lord Jesus, St. Peter was crucified in Rome. He was crucified upside down at his request because he didn't think himself worthy enough to die like his master. After his death he was buried near the Vatican Hill. His grave became the place of pilgrimage for the new Christians. A shrine was build there for the pilgrims. Then Emperor Constantine build a basilica over the shrine. Later on the St. Peter's Cathedral was build instead of the Constantine's Basilica.  Before visiting the St. Peter's Cathedral you will for sure first visit the St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. As we walked on the large cobbled stone street toward the Square we met hundreds of other tourists with cameras just like us and a lot of t

Rome

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It was more than a vacation for me, it was like a pilgrimage. After becoming a Catholic in 2010, this trip was for me like a confirmation of what i truly believed, it was like a trip of knowledge in which i tried to learn more and understand more about the religion and life i choose. I was going to visit Rome, the cradle of civilization and the place where the Catholic religion was formed. As we prepared to go to Rome i watched again one of my favorite movies ever: the polish version of Quo Vadis. In the end of the movie, after meeting the Lord Jesus on the road, Sf. Peter is returning to Rome knowing that he is going to die. The movie finishes with him walking towards Rome in rags and on his right, far away we can see the modern Rome and the Vatican with the Sf. Peter's Cathedral. The thought of walking on the same roads that maybe St. Peter and St. Paul and many other Christian martyrs walked 2000 years ago was unbelievable for me. It was also a symbolical trip: I was going t