Concomitant benefits….

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Marcus

“Yes Prime Minister” never gets old. only we do.

Sir Humphrey : Notwithstanding the fact that your proposal could conceivably encompass certain concomitant benefits of a marginal and peripheral relevance, there is a countervailing consideration of infinitely superior magnitude involving your personal complicity and corroborative malfeasance, with a consequence that the taint and stigma of your former associations and diversions could irredeemably and irretrievably invalidate your position and culminate in public revelations and recriminations of a profoundly embarrassing and ultimately indefensible character.

Jim Hacker : Perhaps I can have a précis of that?

Wawel Castle

Posted on September 2, 2019 by admin

Today Dad and i visited the famous Royal Wawel Castle in Krakow. It is an imposing structure with buidings from many different chapters of history with the Main Court designed and built by a famous italian Architect and Sculptor Fiorentino.

The friendly Lady taking us on a guided tour talked about how it was to live in this time and about the so called etiquette in court.

One of the kings had the ceiling adorned with hundreds of faces looking down at visitors – the result was rather scary. Several dozens of these still survive today.

Very quickly it became clear that our host had a real passion for tapestry – lucky for her the castle holds an impressive collection of these and that before they became the makers of the best chocolates the Belgians were very good at making tapestry.

Wawel Castle

For centuries this imposing structure served as residence of the kings of Poland and the symbol of Polish statehood

History Land

Posted on September 2, 2019 by admin

August 28, 2019

Country: Poland | City: Krakow | Coordinates: 50.0655829, North, 19.9449197 East

Today i visited History Land, located in the old Main Train Station of Krakow. What makes this Museum so interesting for kinds is the fact that all Exhibits are made from Lego bricks, most exhibits of well over 100,000 pieces of Lego that is.

Exhibits are focused on the long and mysterious History of Poland starting with the Biskupin Settlement that was built three thousand years old. That’s right – there was a small city there 800 years before Christ was born in an are where it was a lot tougher to live than in Galilee and Palestine.

Other exhibits depict the battle of Grunwald in 1410, Wawel Castle, Westerplatte, Monte Cassino and the Gdansk Shipyard Strike which was another and thus far the last turning point in Polands rich and colourful history.