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Dining and Drinking Krakow
4 Reviews You will notice people walking around eating a long sandwich covered with pasta sauce and cheese. In actuality, it is a baguette, split in half. cooked in the over until the cheese is melted. Here...
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Culture Warsaw
39 Reviews Warsaw has not one but two legends of mermaids. - One is the story of a fisherman named WARS , who while fishing in the river found a mermaid named SAWA, they fall in love and she asked him to found...
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Language Warsaw
6 Reviews Whenever travelling abroad, it's a good idea to remain in touch with your respective consulate and/or embassy. Just in case you need their assistance (lost passport, marriage arrangements, etc.)...
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Palace of Culture and Science Warsaw
3 Reviews A controversial gift from Stalin is called the Palace of Culture and Science (Palac Kultury i Nauki, PKiN). For most (but not all) Poles, including me, this building is a symbol of communism and...
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As you may have guessed, Zywiec is also a Polish beer, and it appeared to be the most common one served throughout Warsaw and Krakow. Although I didn't like it quite as much as Kasztelan, it was still quite good. I must have had a few gallons of this stuff during my two-week stay.
the New Years' Day - 1 January the Easter Sunday - March or April Easter Monday - March or April the Labour's Day - 1 May the Constitution Day - 3 May the Corpus Christi Day (Pentecost) - a Thursday in June the Feast of Assumption Day - 15 August the All Saints' Day - 1 November the Independence Day - 11 November the Christmas - 25-26 December
I think it is a very good, human custom of Polish drivers. In Poland, drivers keep to the right side of the road and yield to the emergency vehicles ,which are using signals such as ambulances or fire brigade. That allows them to be faster at the place of an accident or fire.I wonder if such a custom is present among drivers in other countries?
We don't celebrate Heloween. We do however have All Saints' Day tradition. On November 1st Poles go to cemeteries to light candles and say a little prayer for their beloved ones who are not with us any more.I recommend that you have a walk of the nearest cemetery at about 5 PM. It's incredible how lovely all those candles look. The atmosphere is amazing.
Youngsters often call the first day of the Spring the "Truant's Day", because many pupils do not go to school that day. But the teachers trying to avoid the huge absence from school usually do not provide normal lessons, but strolls, visits in cinema or other activities. One of them is a "Marzanna's drowning", connected to the old pagan custom. The Marzanna (a word in the old form of Polish language has a meaning of nightmare or another bad things linked to the death) is a puppet which symbolize the Winter. To pass it out the Marzanna should be burn or drown down. Today many pupils and teachers goes on March 21th at the river's or lake's shores to throw the puppet into water. There are a series of prohibitions during a ceremony. E.g. no one should touch the puppet flowing in water, because his hand can then shrivel. The typical puppet is made of straw, white cotton and colourful ribbons....
I will be very glad if you send me postcard from your country (or country you are visiting now). I always send reply postcards from Poland.For more look at my TRAVELOGUE at my VT homepage.Postcard with Polish Castles (Polskie Zamki) on the picture. Do you like it?
Driving down one of the country roads, I made my husband stop the car when I saw the farmers in the field. My daughter took the camera and ran back to photograph them. The mother and kids had come with lunch and the whole family laughed as Susan took her photos. Everyone was so accomodating. Such warm and friendly people.
When we got to Oswiecim we needed some Polish Zlotych and we went to an ATM just outside the train station. Luckily they accepted out cards but they give out such high bills that they are hard to use. All we wanted was a little bit of breakfast and it was hard to convince them in our "pointy talkie" English that we didn't have any other money. But that is all the fun of it.
If you are in or near Karpacz do like many Polish people do: go play the gravity game. What you need is either a car or an empty glass bottle. Then head outside town, to a place called Karpacz Górny: for some strange reason there's a gravity anomaly here. Place your car (or your bottle) downhill-wards and swtich off the engine: your car will now drive downhill but uphill. There's always plenty of people there enjoying this gravity game, so join them: the sensation is amazing.
A highlander is a real man - proud, tough, honourable and independent. Highlanders have developed their own system of values, a state of mental balance and acceptance for the natural order of things. They enjoy good fun and when they get to play they play with wild abandon, real zest and vigour. This is joyful, vibrant folklore of the Podhale region.If by any chance you are invited to a highlander's wedding be prepared for a wild party which lasts till the morning hours. And be careful when somebody offers you the local tea (goralska herbatka). It can knock down even a tough highlander as it's with alcohol.
Sheraton Krakow Hotel Krakow
7 Reviews and 517 Opinions I had a very pleasant stay at this hotel. I was part of a tour group, but would recommend it to the...
Intercontinental Warszawa Warsaw
4 Reviews and 653 Opinions Intercontinental Warswawa is one of the 5***** hotel in warsaw but it is different from the others...
Mercure Hevelius Gdansk
7 Reviews and 221 Opinions Great view from my 9th floor room. [ half way up ]. The room is just what you expect for 450 zloty...
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Q: Hello everyone, My name is Gloria from Rome and I'm coming to Poland soon for a pilgrimage following the history of your...
A: Hi Gloria! From Krakow, I'd recommend that you pay a visit to Wadowice, the home town of Pope John Paul 11 - visit the cathedral where he served - then the house where he...
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