Ala and son, Antek
Avon advertising
Church interior
From the consulate we walked to Stary Browar where Joan wanted to buy something in the health food store. As she was paying for the product she wanted we heard "Cześć" behind us and turned around to see a student of our Mickiewicz Polish class. It was Ala, a young woman from Ukraine with her two and a half month old baby, Antek. We talked for about 20 minutes with her and then walked to the Rynek for coffee.
We sat down in the outside cafe of Cafe Molina and waited for a waitress. 5-10 minutes passed and no waitress. Joan was getting a little concerned about waiting so long and then the waitress appeared at our table with our order of two caffe lattes, without us even ordering them. She knows us so well now that she knows what we want when she sees us. We sat, talked about our plans for the weekend and the new Avon advertising sign that covers one whole building. Yes, even in Poznań, there is Avon calling. We wanted to walk to Wilson Park but got sidetracked at a church I have wanted to take pictures of the inside. I really like the vaulted sealings of the entrance way.
If the weather is good on Sunday, we plan to travel to Goluchow to visit the castle. The Goluchow Castle, originally a defence structure, was built for Rafal Leszczynski around 1650, to be turned into a stately magnate residence by Rafal's son, Waclaw, one of the Republic of Poland - Lithuania's most prominent citizens. Two and a half centuries later Izabela of the Czartoryskis Dzialynska, who then owned the Castle, had it restored in the style of the French Renaissance, as was then the fashion. The restoration, modelled on the chateaux on the Loire and, partly, on Italian palaces, was the work of the French architect Maurice August Ouradou, assisted by Zygmunt Gorgolewski, a Pole. French artists were employed to decorate the Castle walls and interiors, and many of the sculptures which adorn the courtyard to this day were brought from France and Italy. While nineteenth-century in appearance, the Castle has retained a number of earlier architectural traits and details, most notably the in its main part and in the gallery. And even though it was Izabela Dzialynska who gave the final shape to the building, it remains called the Leszczynskis Castle.
Avon advertising
Church interior
Goluchow castle.
Nice autumn day, perfect for walking and we did just that. First to the American Consulate where we met with Urszula Dziuba, the consular agent, to give her our presidential voting ballots to be put in the diplomatic pouch for Warsaw. She asked how we have been, what we have been doing, where we have visited, etc. She just returned from a vacation to Kraków and the Tatra mountains and told us we have to visit Kraków. Like many others, it is her favorite city in Poland. We assured her that we would go there in the future.
From the consulate we walked to Stary Browar where Joan wanted to buy something in the health food store. As she was paying for the product she wanted we heard "Cześć" behind us and turned around to see a student of our Mickiewicz Polish class. It was Ala, a young woman from Ukraine with her two and a half month old baby, Antek. We talked for about 20 minutes with her and then walked to the Rynek for coffee.
We sat down in the outside cafe of Cafe Molina and waited for a waitress. 5-10 minutes passed and no waitress. Joan was getting a little concerned about waiting so long and then the waitress appeared at our table with our order of two caffe lattes, without us even ordering them. She knows us so well now that she knows what we want when she sees us. We sat, talked about our plans for the weekend and the new Avon advertising sign that covers one whole building. Yes, even in Poznań, there is Avon calling. We wanted to walk to Wilson Park but got sidetracked at a church I have wanted to take pictures of the inside. I really like the vaulted sealings of the entrance way.
If the weather is good on Sunday, we plan to travel to Goluchow to visit the castle. The Goluchow Castle, originally a defence structure, was built for Rafal Leszczynski around 1650, to be turned into a stately magnate residence by Rafal's son, Waclaw, one of the Republic of Poland - Lithuania's most prominent citizens. Two and a half centuries later Izabela of the Czartoryskis Dzialynska, who then owned the Castle, had it restored in the style of the French Renaissance, as was then the fashion. The restoration, modelled on the chateaux on the Loire and, partly, on Italian palaces, was the work of the French architect Maurice August Ouradou, assisted by Zygmunt Gorgolewski, a Pole. French artists were employed to decorate the Castle walls and interiors, and many of the sculptures which adorn the courtyard to this day were brought from France and Italy. While nineteenth-century in appearance, the Castle has retained a number of earlier architectural traits and details, most notably the in its main part and in the gallery. And even though it was Izabela Dzialynska who gave the final shape to the building, it remains called the Leszczynskis Castle.
Miłego dzień jesieni , doskonały dla chodzenia i zrobiliśmy właśnie tamto. Pierwszy do American Konsulatu gdzie spotkaliśmy się z Urszula Dziuba, konsularnym agentem, by dać, żeby jej nasze prezydenckie kartki do głosowania były położone w dyplomatycznej torbie dla Warszawy. Ona pytała jak byliśmy, co robiliśmy, gdzie odwiedziliśmy, i tak dalej Ona właśnie wróciła od wakacji do Krakowa i gór Tatr i powiedziała nam musimy odwiedzić Kraków. Jak dużo innych, to jest jej ulubione miasto w Polsce. Ubezpieczyliśmy ją, że poszlibyśmy tam w przyszłości.
Od konsulatu, który chodziliśmy do Stary Browar gdzie Joan chciała kupić coś w sklepie ze zdrową żywnością. Jak ona płaciła za produkt ona chciała usłyszeliśmy "Cześć" za nami i skręciliśmy dookoła by zobaczyć studenta naszego Mickiewicz polska klasa. To było Skrzydło, młoda kobieta z Ukrainy z jej dwoma i pół miesiącem stare dziecko, Antek. Powiedzieliśmy przez około 20 minut z nią i wtedy chodziliśmy do Rynek dla kawy.
Siadaliśmy w zewnętrznej kawiarni Kawiarni Molina i czekaliśmy na minut. 5-10 kelnerki przeszłe i żadna kelnerka. Joan dostawała trochę zainteresowana o czekaniu tak długo i wtedy kelnerka pojawiła się przy naszym stole z naszym zamówieniem dwu caffe lattes, bez nas nawet rozkazująca ich. Ona zna nas tak dobrze teraz gdy ona zna co chcemy kiedy ona widzi nas. Usiedliśmy, powiedziani o naszych planach przez weekend i nowy Avon reklamujący znak, który pokrywa jeden całe budowa. Tak, nawet w Poznań, tam jest Avon wołający. Chcieliśmy chodzić do Wilsona Park ale dostaliśmy się puszczony na boczny tor w kościele chciałem zrobić zdjęcia wewnątrz. Naprawdę lubię przesklepione pieczęcie drogi wejścia.
Jeżeli pogoda jest dobra w niedzielę, planujemy podróżować do Goluchow by odwiedzić zamek. Goluchow Zamek, pierwotnie struktura obrony , była zbudowana dla Rafal Leszczynski dookoła 1650, by być obrócona do wspaniałego miejsca zamieszkania magnata przez syna Rafal , Waclaw, jedną z Republiki Polski - Litwy najbardziej wybitni obywatele. Dwa i pół stulecia późniejszy Izabela Czartoryskis Dzialynska, który wtedy posiadł Zamek, kazały to przywrócone w stylu Renesansu Francuzów , jak było wtedy moda. Przywracanie, wymodelowane na zamkach na Loire i, częściowo, na włoskich pałacach, było praca Francuzów architekta Maurice′a sierpnia Ouradou, pomożonego przez Zygmunt Gorgolewski, Polaka. Francuscy artyści byli zatrudnieni by ozdobić ściany Zamku i wnętrza, i wiele z rzeźb, które ozdabiają dziedziniec po dzień dzisiejszy były przyniesione z Francji i Włoch. Podczas gdy dziewiętnaste stulecia w pojawieniu się, Zamek zachował pewną liczbę wcześniej architektoniczne rysy i szczegóły, najbardziej szczególnie w jego głównej części i w galerii. I nawet gdyby to był Izabela Dzialynska, który dał końcowy kształt budowie, to pozostaje nazwanym Leszczynskis Zamek.
2 comments:
David,
Yes, go to Goluchow Castle by all means, you will not be sorry. It is quite magnificent. They also have a small animal area with some of the Polish bison and a few other animals. Nice grounds too.
I still read your blog on a regular basis. I miss somethings in Poland but not all.
Take care,
John
Give a thought to heading to Krakow and the Zakopane when I'm in Zakopane next year. Those dates begin the last Saturday in June and continue for two weeks. We start camp the first Saturday that school is done in Poland. I expect again to be traveling from Siedlce to Zakopane with the students.
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