OOH, the banana cake I made yesterday is so good! It was in a 13'x9' baking pan so there is a lot of it. So much so, I cut 2 pieces out and gave them to our neighbors, Paweł & Julia. About 1/2 hour later, Paweł returned the plate the cake was on and asked me for the recipe. He said it was the best they have ever eaten. That's a pretty good endorsement of the recipe.
However, there is so much sugar in it that this morning I checked my blood sugar level and was happy to see it had a score of 94. That is within the normal range for my youthful age.
The sky is blue today but the forecast is for rain. If it doesn't rain, I want to take Joan for a little excursion to the village of Owinska to see the new bridge that has been built over the Warta River. The village is only a 1/2 hour drive from here so the trip is short. Joan hasn't been outside for a couple of days so I would like to break the monotony of her staying inside.
6 PM-The weather was good enough for us to make the Owinska trip. Once we arrived there, I had to stop a few local people to discover exactly where the bridge was. The last person we asked told us it was right across the street with an entrance behind the tallest building. A little dirt road led us down to the bridge's parking area.
Putting Joan in her wheelchair, I pushed her to the entrance to the bridge, then started an incline push up the concrete entrance until we were in the center of the bridge. It is very impressive with good views of the river on both sides of the bridge. I took my camera and started taking pictures. I really wanted to go up the several staircases to the observation deck at the top to take pictures but I didn't want to leave Joan alone for the amount of time it would take. Instead, We just moved around the bridge for different views of it.
Before exiting the bridge they have one nice idea, a machine where you can stand and it takes a picture of you with the bridge in the background, and it prints it out for you to take with you.
Before leaving Owinska, we stopped at the local church complex and I went in to take pictures of the church.
Back in Poznań, we stopped at the cafe by Empik for coffee and cake. The young woman who knows us took our order and applied our discount. The cost for 2 coffees and 2 chocolate cake slices was 24 PLN($6)
It was very cloudy and before we finished our coffee a downpour occurred that lasted for 20 minutes. With the accompanying wind, even moving our seating place, we did get somewhat wet but it wasn't that bad.
We returned home by 4:30 and I prepared Greek lemon chicken with roasted vegetables for dinner.
This is an interesting read about young people in Poland and politics.
https://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/57696/news
Saving Malta Festival. Dominika Kulczyk, the heiress (along with her brother Sebastian) of the financial empire of Jan Kulczyk, the richest Pole of recent decades, who died in 2015, also known for her cultural and charitable projects, has pledged to save the flagship event, whose preservation has been called for by, among others, literary Nobel laureates John Maxwell Coetzee and Orhan Pamuk.
Poznan's flagship festival, which has attracted outstanding artists from around the world for more than three decades, has run into financial trouble. The problems were sparked by events 10 years ago, when one of the concerts was canceled due to a structural defect in the stage. The performer was paid an honorarium and the audience was reimbursed for their tickets - the amounts were significant. A years-long expensive lawsuit with the company handling the technical side of the festival began.Kulczyk joined the talks to purchase the festival brand. Her help may allow the continuation of a venture whose future has been in question, as well as allow its creator, Michal Merczynski, to continue working for Malta.
If the process is finalized, the festival will have a new formula. The focus of the artists and the audience will be on women - their art and the topics close to them.
"When I heard about the festival's troubles, there could only be one decision. Poland and my Poznan cannot lose Malta, and Malta cannot lose Michal Merczynski," Kulczyk said. Source-The Warsaw Voice
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