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Feniks   
29 Jun 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [473]

They usually do that as a way of avoiding answering the question. Especially if they're wrong. Plus, they don't appear to have any manners.
Feniks   
29 Jun 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [558]

It must be a full container for old clothes.

That's what I initially thought but in the UK you have to pull down on a handle which opens up somewhere to deposit the clothes, put the bag of clothes in, then push the handle upwards to 'drop' the clothes into the bin inside. Maybe that happens in the part of the bin that's obscured in the photo.
Feniks   
29 Jun 2024
Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [173]

there are about two dozen or even more flavours.

I didn't think there were that many but I've tried quite a few. Wish I could buy just the coffee ones.

E Wedel Pawełek have a caffe latte chocolate bar but I've yet to find other coffee flavoured chocolates.
Feniks   
29 Jun 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [558]

soupeurs

Not having heard this term before I followed your link. Wish I hadn't just eaten my breakfast though.....

What can you see???

Bits of clothing? In the UK we have bins that you can recycle used clothing in but this doesn't look the same.
Feniks   
28 Jun 2024
Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [173]

I like those merci chocolates. They have a coffee flavoured one and coffee chocolates are hard to find in the UK. Doesn't seem to be a popular flavour :(
Feniks   
28 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [288]

[johnny reb]
How did you manage to post the other pics that you claimed were yours then?
Feniks   
28 Jun 2024
Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [109]

One of many names along with Dutch cheese, curd cheese, pot cheese.... though it's not that popular/common.

I always thought Americans thought of it as being similar to Quark.
Feniks   
20 Jun 2024
Food / Polish mustards [134]

The dark one?

That's the one. It was horrible!
Feniks   
20 Jun 2024
Food / Polish mustards [134]

How about Dijon mustard?

Not keen on that either Milo. Just English mustard for me. I remember trying an awful tasting mustard labelled 'French' that came in a glass jar as a child and I haven't actually tried Polish mustard...yet.
Feniks   
18 Jun 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [558]

I have an impression we already talked about it a few years ago. :):):)

You're right. I just found it :(

It's easy so I don't think it will take long to solve.
Feniks   
18 Jun 2024
Food / Polish mustards [134]

I'm used to the strongish kind (which doesn't involve eggs) that's traditional in England.

I've always found Polish horseradish sauce to be stronger. I prefer it to the English stuff which tends to be too creamy.

Mustard wise I only really like Colman's English mustard. Most other mustards, regardless of country of origin, tend to be too bland. At least the ones I've tried.
Feniks   
18 Jun 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [558]

A new and probably far too easy a riddle.

This statue is part of a monument to who? Whereabouts can it be found and what does it depict, who does it overlook and who designed it?


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Feniks   
18 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [308]

I have low blood pressure :

Me too.

I hope you don't smoke cigarettes and don't have circulatory disorders.

Nope.
Feniks   
17 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [308]

I'm probably the only one in our house who wears slippers around the house.

I wear them in the house. I have a leather pair I bought in Poland for the summer and I I have sheepskin boot type slippers for winter. My feet are often freezing cold :(
Feniks   
17 Jun 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [558]

I meant the legend about two brothers building the St Mary`s Cathedral.

I hadn't heard about that legend. Thanks for the alternative explanation :)
Feniks   
16 Jun 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [558]

What is it and why???

An Iron knife. A deterrent to thieves so as not to end up with missing ears or fingers. It's in the Sukiennice.

No to lu!!!!

You meant it to encourage me to post something? Well, that's it, now post!!!
Feniks   
15 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [288]

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

That's a lovely poem and I can definitely relate to it.

I never knew it was so wild and so green there.

Parts of it are very wild and almost desolate. You can walk for miles without seeing anyone. There are lots of rivers and Dartmoor is rarely dry. It rains a lot too which is why it's so green. There are many bogs and mires so you definitely need a map and compass to get about. It has woods, forests, valleys, Bronze Age stone circles, over 160 granite tors dating back 280 million years, and of course, a prison!

A few more pics but not sure how they'll come out.


  • High Willhays, highest point on Dartmoor

  • Nine Maidens Bronze Age stone circle

  • A granite tor

  • Meldon Reservoir
Feniks   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [288]

You live near this place?

It's about 80 miles away but I visit quite often. It is a wonderful place with very diverse scenery.

nationalparks.uk/park/dartmoor/
Feniks   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [190]

You have a crush on me

As I said before, why would anyone be interested in a 70+ years retired grease monkey with a criminal record for domestic violence who bears an uncanny resemblance to Humpty Dumpty.

You never talk about your British politicians' failures for some reason.

Because the post that you started talking about Britain in was in the thread entitled 'PiS candidates are losing positions in EU parliament. Will they keep power in Poland'

You expect others to stay on topic when it seems to be an impossibility for you to do the same. There are more relevant threads for talking about the UK.

Karen

Obviously an American thing. On this side of the pond it's meaningless.
Feniks   
14 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Polish Music. [269]

I quite like this one with Bednarek.

I posted that one on this thread a few days ago!

she seems to have aged quite quickly, a few years ago sh looked much younger.

She is 64. She looks amazing for her age and she has a beautiful voice.
Feniks   
13 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Things We Love [288]

Dartmoor was the setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle ( featuring Sherlock Holmes )