2 Lessons!!

Stary Rynek(Old Market Square) in Poznań

A demonstration of the old Polish Calvary in the Square

A main street of Poznan Street Sw. Marcin heading toward the Square.
An old tram returning from Stary Rynek.View from inside the second car of our tram.
Stary Rynek.
Today was a fun day for us. We got up about 9:30AM, had breakfast (Musli cereal and kawa), watched a performance by Vladimir Horowitz in Moscow in 1986 on TV Kultura, got dressed and took the bus/tram to the national museum housed in the old castle on the hill overlooking Stary Rynek. In it were excellent pieces of furniture made in the 1600's with beautiful workmanship, glasswares, silverworks and an exhibition by Lalique, a premier glassworks company in Poland. After that we walked down Paderewskiego street to Stary Rynek and sat outside in one of the many cafes for lunch. Joan had apple pie with ice cream and vanilla sauce and kafe latte. I had sałatka niejska( a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, tuna and egg) and kafe latte. The price was about $14USD. The weather was great and we took our time eating and talking and watching people. There was a wedding group having pictures taken, a popular place for that.

Afterwards we took a tram back to the bus stop and I learned lesson number 1. ALWAYS hold on to the rail while you're punching your ticket. I didn't and when the tram made a turn while I was punching our tickets I went flying backwards and only the door stopped me from falling. There was a group of pre-teenagers standing there and they were laughing and said something to me. Not sure what they said but it seemed good-natured and they called me "dziadek"(grandfather) so I laughed with them.

Lesson 2 was that when you reach your bus stop and at standing at the door assuming the driver will see you in the mirror, make sure you press the button anyway for the door to open. I didn't and we ended up walking 6 blocks from the stop after ours to get back to our street.

So we had a good day today. Tomorrow we have our first non-relative guest coming, a friend of our American Polish teacher. We met him over the Internet, introduced by Tadeusz, and have emailed each other several times. Our flat is almost finished so we have invited relatives and acquaintances to come and visit.

I have more pictures but couldn't get them all on this one message.
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