A new life of a wine bottle and The Crazy Guides!

Thursday is nearly over and I'm catching up with my blog posts having come back from Krakow. It was a great stay, as usual.

Only on my third visit to the carrot juice place did I notice the unusual wine bottle shape. It was achieved through putting the bottle into a special ceramic furnice, I learnt from the juice squashing girl behind the counter. In Poland, unlike in the UK, people put the money on the counter. They do not normally place it in the other person's hand, as the English do. Therefore, there often is a little tray of some sort to put the money on when the transaction is made. That's the new role of the green bottle.

On the way to lunch at the familiar "Glonojad" (Algae Eater) I encountered the famous team of Crazy Guides in Plac Matejki (Matejki Square).  The two guides were saying good bye to a group of satisfied tourists after the unique experience: a trip back in time to the communist times in by-gone East German cars called Trabant, often referred to as 'Plastic Fantastic'.

A swine at Glonojad (Algae Eater) can feel safe!

Where next? - seem to discuss the tourist in front of Krakow Barbican.

'Enchanted Droshky' from K.i. Gałczyński's famous poem? No, that one didn't survive a collision with a Wartburg.

Traditional Krakow outfits attract the eyes to the two musician busking in Brama Florianska (St Florian Gate):

A feline Tshirt print:

At the entrance hall to Jan Matejko House (museum) you are greeted by this impressive Polish Hussar by... Leon Wyczolkowski, who is mostly remembered as a painter.

The Old Town walls are an every-day equivalent to London Bayswater on Sundays:

The shops opposite offer a lot of bric-a-brac and similar stuff:

I sent a picture of the spherical cinema outside Galeria Krakowska to a friend commenting that an alien spaceship landed in Krakow and the reply was: 'More like it crashed.' ;-)

The railway station in Krakow is now dwarfed by the Shopping Centre. I must admit it looks rather smart, by far better then the by-gone mess of buses, mini-buses and little kiosks and stands facing the elegant station building. BTW, I wonder how the revamping of the station area in Lodz is progressing....

Here you can see a typical Polish Friday main course. Yes, it's a fish fillet in breadcrumbs with new potatoes and a salad mix. I like hot tea after such a meal. My friend went for 'gołąbki', which literally translates into 'little pigeons', but the dish has nothing to do with 'flying meat'. Basically, it's stuffed cabbage leaves.

The return journey went by fast owing to a chatty woman who sat next to me. Hence, very few pictures:

Good night!