| Me with Mikus's family at the historical 'park' Biskupin. This
was formerly an archealogical site. Polish scientists found remnants
of a fortified wood settlement along a lakeshore from 2000 - 3000 years
ago. Now they built it back up according to its original form.
So I guess even in the old times everyone needed a castle to keep out the
'riff-raff' beggars, marauders, and American tourists. Too bad it
didn't last!
Pictured left to right are me, Roman, Basia, Jadzia, and Marek. |
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Me and relatives in Kruszwica. This tower is part of the remnants
of an old castle build during the Piast dynasty. (first Polish royal dynasty).
There is an interesting and funny legend surrounding this tower, which
involves a treacherous king (Popiel) who poisoned all his opponents and
buried them in the lake you see in the background. Then some hungry
and hardy mice, attracted by all the corpses, followed them from the lake
into the tower and ate them alive. So we pretended to put a mouse
inside Jadzia's jacket. As you can see she is howling from pain of
being bitten by that mouse.
Pictured from left to right are Jadzia, Marek, me, Roman, and Mikus. Mikus was my host, tour guide, and interpreter throughout my stay in north central Poland. He is a good driver, too. And he likes to take shortcuts! Roman was not happy to have to climb all the stairs by himself. We would have carried him, but the roof in the stairway was too low. |