Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Day 2-Koszalin






Last Saturday after an excellent breakfast of freshly made bread, cheese, buns and lunch meat, we went with Czes艂aw to the center of town to view things of interest. First was the park with nice old tree, a river running through it and a few ponds. From there we went to see one of the oldest chapels that dates back to the 15th century. It was closed so we took some pictures outside of it. The most interesting building was the miller's museum.. It's actually called the Miller's palace and is from the 19th century. The mill was constructed in the 12th century and was one of the few buildings to survive the fire of 1601. The new mill was built between 1838-1842 and was equipped with American machinery. Within the period of 1890-1897, a palace was attached to the mill and performed as an administration function of the mill.

Along with the mill are two other structures, a building with fishing nets, a blacksmith area and other items and the second building which is an actual house from 1869 and brought to Koszalin from D膮bki. The house is equipped with furniture from that era and also has the famous straw roof from that period. People were much shorter back then as you can see from the picture with Joan in them if you look how close the ceiling beams are to her head.

It was another hot day and after walking for two and a half hours we were happy to go back to the house where it was cooler inside. A short time after arriving the grill was ready, Krystyna's mother arrived and we sat down to a typical Polish feast of many different kinds of food; salad, pickles, kie艂basa(white and smoked), kiszka and a sausage I never had before stuffed with potatoes and bacon. After the lunch we went back inside to a cooler place and talked the rest of the evening.
 
Another thing of interest was the monument with the two tall pillars that use to be in the main square but was moved into the park. It is a three sided monument that has a big significance for people because it says...We were, We are  and We will be. It was erected after WWII.

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Inn膮 rzecz膮 zainteresowania by艂 pomnik z dw贸ch wysokich filarach, kt贸re u偶ywaj膮 by膰 na g艂贸wnym placu, ale zosta艂 przeniesiony do parku. To tr贸jstronne pomnik, kt贸ry ma du偶e znaczenie dla ludzi, bo m贸wi ... Byli艣my, jeste艣my i b臋dziemy. Zosta艂 wzniesiony po II wojnie 艣wiatowej.