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Post by nancy on Jun 17, 2006 19:54:58 GMT -7
A ship is anchoring in Krakow this weekend.... OK, what gives with the ship in Krakow?
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Post by Pawian on Jun 18, 2006 0:18:56 GMT -7
OK, what gives with the ship in Krakow? Here`s a hint: Wpłynąłem na suchego przestwór oceanu, Wóz nurza się w zieloność i jak łódka brodzi, Śród fali łąk szumiących, śród kwiatów powodzi, Omijam koralowe ostrowy burzanu*. Już mrok zapada, nigdzie drogi ni kurhanu*, Patrzę w niebo, gwiazd szukam, przewodniczek łodzi; Tam z dala błyszczy obłok? tam jutrzenka wschodzi? To błyszczy Dniestr, to weszła lampa Akermanu*. Stójmy! – jak cicho! – słyszę ciągnące żurawie, Których by nie dościgły źrenice sokoła; Słyszę, kędy się motyl kołysa na trawie, Kędy wąż śliską piersią dotyka się zioła. W takiej ciszy! – tak ucho natężam ciekawie, Że słyszałbym głos z Litwy. – Jedźmy, nikt nie woła!
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Post by Pawian on Jun 18, 2006 12:54:02 GMT -7
Warm, warm...
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Post by Pawian on Jun 23, 2006 14:26:05 GMT -7
Ok, I see you gave up. hahahaha Here`s the best photo of the ship. It`s a crude replica of Columbus`s ship (BTW, what was it, Santa Maria, Nina or Pinta? I never remember) made of aluminium cans, for the 4th or 6th (IV or VI, I never remember) Recycling Festival in Krakow. Last year there was a giant statue of Wawel Dragon made of bottle caps:
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Post by Pawian on Jun 23, 2006 14:45:04 GMT -7
There is a nice custom in the Polish countryside and provincial towns. It is a sort of road customs hahahahaha. Local boys, often with girls, sometimes it can even be adult men, organize a check-point on the road, waiting for a newly wed couple and wedding guests who come back home from the church ceremony. Boys keep a string over the road and demand "ransom" for letting the cars pass. The ransom for boys is some money or rarely sweets, men demand alcohol. Watching this custom has always made me laugh. I just love seeing the surprise on the drivers` faces, especially when a driver doesn`t belong to the wedding and is unlucky to go on the road. Very funny. The boys block the road. Two keep the line, the third collects the money. Mind that it takes place in the heart of a small town, on the main junction. The driver pays and is the string goes up. It is a popular custom to put flowers on the wedding car. When I was getting married 9 years ago, we also had a bouquet of flowers. There is a special rubber sucker to fasten flowers to the hood. The custom seen on the photos doesn`t exist in big cities any more. I took these photos in a small town near Cracow. In the tradition of road stopping, it is the groom who is supposed to pay the passage fee. If he doesn`t, then he might be accused of misery. If he pays but not too abundantly, then stoppers harass other cars waiting behind. Funny, but the children on the road don`t come from this town at all. They are all from nearby villages. Local town children think stopping cars is a disgrace. Tin cans have never been used in Poland during the wedding. I suppose they must be very noisy.
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Post by Jaga on Jun 23, 2006 14:59:28 GMT -7
Pawian,
I did not really know about this habit! Need to include it in the wedding articles!
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Post by Pawian on Jun 23, 2006 15:13:30 GMT -7
Pawian, I did not really know about this habit! Need to include it in the wedding articles! It is slowly disappearing, I suppose. I have seen it only a few times, in villages. I was really surprised to see it in a little town too.
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Post by nancy on Jun 23, 2006 15:19:00 GMT -7
I think I have read about such a custom in the "old days" when the wedding party was "attacked" by men on horseback.. must be in one of these old books I have here ...
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Post by george on Jun 23, 2006 17:57:09 GMT -7
My wife has told me about this tradition many times
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Post by leslie on Jun 24, 2006 1:25:33 GMT -7
We have also a wedding tradition in UK but it is not as violent as described by Pawi. Outside the church waiting for the end of the wedding when the bride and groom etc leave the church, and walk down the path to the car waiting for them to take them to the reception, a crowd of boys and girls are waiting. As the bride/groom, bride's parents etc approach they shout 'Shill out' which means 'throw some money'. The ensuring scramble on the pavement and the road disrupts all movement until the last penny is found. I don't know whether this is still done, but I can remember many cut knees and hands when I was a lad looking for a 'shill out'. Leslie
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Post by Pawian on Jul 5, 2006 12:53:26 GMT -7
The article is very informative but it doesn`t contain any up-to-date photos of roadside shrines. I thought I could make up for it. I took these photos outside Cracow, along a distance of about 15 kilometers. On average every two kilometers there is some religious site. Of course, it doesn`t mean they are put up only in the countryside. They are in the cities and towns too, but not so numerous. The roadside religious sites may take different forms and shapes. A simple wooden cross: Crosses are sometimes more elaborate, made of stone, concrete or metal: Very often it is a figure of a holy person, mostly Virgin Mary. Sometimes it looks like a pillar or a tower..... Or even a column: The biggest, but also the rarest are small chapels with religious statues or even little altars inside:
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Post by Pawian on Jul 9, 2006 13:29:50 GMT -7
Apart from shrines on the roads there are also sites with religious symbols to commemorate victims of accidents. Such sites are usually marked with a simple cross, not too high, sometimes with a plaque. They are not graves, of course. According to Polish law, putting anything like that on the side of the road requires a permission from the road maintenance service. But permissions are not given.... So, practically, all those crosses are illegal. But the road services are tolerant and don`t remove them.
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Post by Jaga on Jul 9, 2006 15:20:04 GMT -7
Guys,
these are all extremely beautiful and charming photographs of chapels from Poland. I hope that Nancy with your help (Jerzy, Piwo, Jim etc) would be able to prepare a nice article or even the series of several articles that we will be able to post with charming Polish chapels.
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Post by Pawian on Jul 12, 2006 15:51:44 GMT -7
I took a few photos of Market Square musicians. Check it how it opens... www.republika.pl/jerzyb/music/music.htmPS. I have just finished a computer course where I learned how to build own sites. I am going to gradually move all photos onto the pawian`s deluxe site.
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Post by Jaga on Jul 12, 2006 20:15:00 GMT -7
Pawian,
I think you should have your own beautiful site it since you have a wonderful way of describing things. Although I hope we can keep a couple of your stories and also to build the one about chapels.
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