Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there

@ Paulina, thanks for sharing all your memories. You can see the real love you have for your region. That's wonderful! Yes, Ireland is hilly, partly because it's a small island and coastal areas always seem to have very steep hills but pretty much everywhere you go in Ireland there are sloping, winding roads. There are a lot of places where the road goes up, down, up, down again over a run of a few hundred metres :) and we have many hump backed bridges. This was one of my local ones when I lived in the Wicklow mountains.The bridge is just about one car wide and when the farmer is driving the cows across you just wait :) If you meet another car one of you reverses. An artist lives in the little cottage with the red door.

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@Atch, honestly, even just the description makes me want to visit Ireland :)))) And thank you for the beautiful and relaxing video! 😍

I'm sure you'd love it there - it's a shame it's so bloody expensive. But a nice way to visit Ireland which is affordable is to volunteer to help on an organic family farm for a week or two. They provide accommodation and food so you'd just have your travelling expenses. Who knows, maybe one day? :))

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Oh, I didn't think about that... Is it really that expensive to visit as a tourist? 😔

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Is thats why people from Kielce are called "Scyzoryki"?

The food shops in Dublin Airport are hair-raisingly dear. Excellent food though.

Your description of Wicklow reminds me a bit of the Cumbrian coastline, especially Furness, one of my favourite places in the world.

Maybe I've missed it in this thread but nobody's mentioned the Palace of the Kraków Bishops yet. One of the nicest things to see in Kielce.

The regional Dom Kultury is worth a look too, as much for the building as the exhibitions. An amazing building full of 50s marble decoration. You can stay there in (very reasonably priced) rooms. Someone even runs a recording studio in part of it.

Kielce also hosts the biggest military and armament fair/exhibition in Poland. I attended one decades ago, when my current wife was still my girlfriend. She went with me to see those boring weapons because she loved me so much. :):):)

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Wow, it has been 30 years exactly - the first fair in Kielce ever. It was the time I was fascinated with armament and military. The memory of this visit made me create this thread. :):):)

That's a good girlfriend/wife :)))


That's cool :)))


It's the best preserved in its original form early Baroque palace in Poland :)

I've visited it many times with my class when I was at art school, because it's a National Museum at the same time and there are paintings of most famous Polish painters exhibited there. Besides the permanent exhibitions there also temporary exhibitions. I remember that some years ago I visited the palace during the Night of Museums and there was a temporary exhibition of Wojciech Siudmak paintings. I loved the way the palace looked in the evening all light up and the quiet, evening atmosphere when I was walking through those empty old rooms :)))

The Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce:

The front:





From the side:



From the back:



The garden:

Some of the interiors of the Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce:

Residents of Kielce and the area must be extremely happy that PIS Chairman, Mr Jarosław Kaczyński, has chosen their voting district for himself. :):):):) He is going to be No 1 on the election list of PiS candidates to the Polish Parliament from Kielce.

Amasing!!! Such an honour to Kielcians!

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Ewww, Lord have mercy... 🤢

Apparently we're going to have Roman Giertych here too (on the KO list, but on the last spot)...

So many famous people, I don't know how we're going to handle this... :)))

Amasing developments! :):):) Roman Giertych was a deputy Prime Minister in Kaczyński`s gov 2005-2007.

He won't dare to show his face. After all he is on the wanted list.

Giertych on the left looks definitely more handsome and distinguished than Kaczyński

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Moseley was marginally better looking than Mussolini, though I'd not vote for either of them.

:):):)
If I had to choose, I would definitely vote for 100 Giertychs than 1 Kaczyński. Those rightist PiS gangsters are a traumatic experience for normal people .:):):)

oopps, it should be the other way round. Sorry. :):):)

Seriously?

Nope, on second thoughts it seems I had been correct at first. :):):)

A "warm" farewell of Kaczyński in Kielce after his yesterday visit :D:

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"Wypierdalaj! Wypierdalaj! Wypierdalaj!"

;D

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No wonder he needs so much security - people just looove him so much ;D

He's running from Kielce, right?

*grabs popcorn*

@GefreiterKania, yes, he is the NUMBER ONE on PiS' list in Kielce ;D

That add at some truck or something at the end of the video cracked me up: "Zapraszamy codziennie!!!" ("We invite you to visit everyday!!!") lol ;D

You know why? because there is 16 out of 20 mandates that are PiS country.

Yes, it's obvious to everyone - because he's scared that he would lose against Tusk in Warsaw :))) Kaczyński thinks he will win in Kielce and that's why he's running from here.

Why Kielce?

Why not?

Because this region in general has been always a PiS stronghold.

hahaha So sweet. Reminds of some cult Polish comedies. :):):)

Remember that there are a lot of roads that were built due to industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, currently impossible to widen without destroying buildings.


You can see it on the map there.

I was surprised to read that when the US signed their declaration; of independence, some of the signatories literally had to hack their way through the forest with machetes.