Kikity airfield

Beautiful Kikity, also on the Masurian lake system

Even at the beginning of July you have to have bad weather sometimes.  We sat in the briefing office at Ketrzyn until 4pm, waiting for a weather window to go the 30km to Kikity airfield, recommended to us by Heiko Mueller of Aerokurier. When we called to check landing fees etc. they sounded a bit bemused to hear from us, but we figured it was a language problem.

It was so damp there were dozens of these little frogs on the airfield!

When we finally arrived at Kikity, we understood the confusion: the airfield wasn't really open yet, the hotel was 99% finished and we were their first guests in their 5 star facility.  And first guests naturally have to be toasted in vodka, beer, and local beer and lemon vodka, and the other vodka, and why not whisky, oh and what about the Johnnie Walker black.....

A really talented painter was hired to decorate the walls, the planes painted here on the wall to the kitchen are the airfield's founders' planes, with Syzgi's at the top and Slavek's in the middle (we didn't meet the third founder)

The next day we couldn't understand how everyone else was so perky...  Again the weather was not the best, so everyone else stayed until they could get out safely mid-afternoon, they were kind enough to let us stay another night on our own and nurse our heads.

Storks are the club's emblem and just down the road there was a big stork nest

The airfield and hotel were built by 3 guys from Warsaw, one of whom's most easily explicable business is hotels, which is what inspired them to build a luxury hotel.  It is not yet decided exactly what they're going to do with the property: keep it as a hotel for friends and aeroclub members, open it to the public, or make it into an airpark

the view out our window (not flying weather)

Syzgi is one of the three founders of the airfield and all round good guy.

Goodbye Josip and Ida