Hanging out in Poland

I've been in Torun, Poland for about a week now working on a bank vole project. The project is going well and the voles are definitely easier to work on than mole-rats, although cleaning cages everyday does take considerably longer.

Poland has been interesting so far--I've had a couple of new, and umm, interesting foods since I've been here. It's been nice to experience, but it's not a diet I would want to live on long term. We took a drive to northern Poland last weekend so I got to see a fairly nice chunk of the country. The landscape roughly resembles the Midwest, with a lot of farms and small woodlots. There were a lot of neat old buildings and small, rustic towns along the way. I'm still trying to get away for a few days to see either another country or another part of Poland. It looks like we are going to try to catch some bats if the weather warms up, so I may get my first European species on this trip!