Category Archive: Poland

31 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 31

Pic of the Day: July 31

After a wonderful month, it's farewell to Krakow and on to a new and different phase of the tour–visiting family in Heidelberg, Germany and Paphos, ...

 
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30 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 30

Pic of the Day: July 30

Nowa Huta, a Stalinist development built in the 1940's and meant to be an ideal communist worker's town, is a suburb of Krakow.  To help ...

 
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29 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 29

Pic of the Day: July 29

Polish bakeries are kind of the best of both worlds:  they are happy to do both French style and Germanic/Viennese style, with plenty of hearty ...

 
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28 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 28

Pic of the Day: July 28

A few blocks from our apartment is where the patron saint of Poland, St. Stanislaus, was hacked to pieces by King Bolesław II the Bold ...

 
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27 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 27

Pic of the Day: July 27

Don't be alarmed; this is not your typical Polish country home.  This picture is from the Dom/Home exhibit by Polish photographers Andrzej Kramarz and Weronika ...

 
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26 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 26

Pic of the Day: July 26

The Bishop Erazm Ciołka museum specializes in 12th-18th century Polish art.  Which means a lot of Jesus art, Jesus and Mary art, and saint art.  ...

 
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25 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 25

Pic of the Day: July 25

The star of the show here is Żubrówka, or Bison Grass Vodka. Banned in the US for containing the allegedly toxic compound coumarin, we were ...

 
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24 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 24

Pic of the Day: July 24

We toured the ancient heart of Poland's oldest university, the Collegium Maius of Jagiellonian University.  Founded in 1364, their students and faculty have made a ...

 
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23 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 23

Pic of the Day: July 23

We're aficionados of the nonsensical English language phrases so popular on European T-shirts.  But this local coffee shop on the backstreets of Krakow didn't even ...

 
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22 Jul

Pic of the Day: July 22

Pic of the Day: July 22

On a stroll across the Vistula river to the ancient Krakow mound, we found a freeway mural covering the entire 1,000 year history of the ...

 
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