All Saints' Day Today, when the whole world celebrates Halloween, in Poland we have other holiday connected with afterlife - All Saints’ Day. This day is free from work, people gather together with families, go to the cemetery and burn candles on graves of loved ones. The weather in Poland in November is very helpful in creating atmosphere of reverie and meditation. Days are dark, cloudy and usually it rains. I admire the evening walks in cemeteries. There are about thousands of little, twinkling candles, you can smell wax in the air, and there are a lot of silent and focused people walking next to you. Everyone is thoughtful and serious. It’s a good time to reminisce some of the national heros. I’m lucky because in Warsaw we have great, old cemetery from about 1790, with lots of famous and important for national history peoples. Cemetery in Poland (especially in big cities like Warsaw) looks more like little cities then gardens or parks (like cemetery I saw in Dublin or in Oxford). Some of graves are about 4-5 meters and looks like monuments or little houses. To not be so gloomy I might add that these days in front of the cemetery gates you can buy candies - skin of the lord (literally translation) - it’s a very sweet, almost all made with sugar.