Solidarność

Too hard to choose a blip today. But this one captures a few elements so I'll go with it.

A full on day at the EYCA conference in Gdansk - a very busy formal programme which included me delivering a keynote speech this morning about how communications has changed over the past 30 years (the age of our association as a group of countries). There were workshops, presentations and Q&As - all great and fantastic to share perspectives and insight from colleagues across Europe and beyond.

Tonight was a walking tour of central Gdansk - if you haven't been go, it is stunning - and then onto the highlight - the museum and cultural centre built to honour the Solidarność movement of 1980 and Lech Wałęsa.

When I was at secondary school we studied this incredible strike and I became pretty obsessed with it - this fight for social justice. I even learned how to draw the Solidarność logo freehand - covering my work books.

So to be in that centre - seeing the brilliant display of items from the time - was quite quite overwhelming. They had the original sheet of chipboard that the dockworkers wrote their demands in; the hardhats of the workers suspended en mass on the ceiling and even the gates of one of the yards - pictures here - S-6.

We then had the incredible honour of having dinner in the centre, hosted by the Deputy Mayor of the City.

What a wonderful, wonderful evening. I'm incredibly lucky.