Today was a public holiday in Poland due to the Christy Corpus celebration. Today was also the Polish Father's day. The morning started off with the usual hearty breakfast, prepared by non other than Dagmara's mom. Yes, we had the tomato thingy again. Loving them infinitely!
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| Breakfast table |
Dagmara then brought us out around Kalisz town with her brother and sister-in-law. The town is really quite small. She brought us to their town theatre, to see the buildings that matters to them. It was such a wonderful town, to see all the old buildings that have several hundreds or even thousands of years. This is what a city full of history should look like. Around Poland, one can actually meet Pope John Paul II. Yes, he is a Polish, and no he is not alive anymore. Polish have so much pride in the previous Pope that they build monuments of him everywhere. He is like their national pride. After that is to the Old Market Square to see the Christy Corpus celebration. It was not very big but yet still very grand. There was choir groups singing and many devotees were there to worship the corpse of jesus. I don't know much about this festival so can't elaborate so much about it.
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| Theatre |
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| The Pope |
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| Christy Corpus celebration |
After the celebration, we went back for the Polish dinner, which is our lunch. Their dinner is usually taken between 2-4 pm. So that was what we did. We had tomato soup with pasta as starters. Dagmara's mom really is a good cook. The tomato soup is so refreshing and tantalizing. I wish I could have some now. Next up was main course. We are having the "pigeon" again, and so much more. Boyfriend did something silly during the dinner. He wanted to offer Dagmara's dad the bowl of potatoes but he didn't know how to say potatoes in Polish. But out of nowhere, he said "patatas?" (potatoes in Spanish) and Dagamara's dad couldn't understand. We had a good laugh:) After the meal, we sat around to chat. Dagmara acted as our translator because we could not speak any Polish and her family not a single English. Polish people are really nice. They may look or even sound rude when you first met them but deep down inside, they are really friendly, nice and hospitable.
The evening was wrapped up with a bowling session with Dagmara's friends, Marta and Lukasz. Well guess who lose? Yeap me! I don't know why I can never excel in sports. *sigh* And after that, we went for a drink in a cafe called Kaliszfornia (yeah, I know, the name!). Their chocolate milk shake was awesome. We were supposed to meet another of Dagmara's but in the end she couldn't make it, so we went to this cool Italian restaurant that is situated down a basement. So it was pretty cold down there. We were quite late by the time we decided to have dinner, so there wasn't anyone else other than us. Yeah, private restaurant! So, this was the last day of our stay in Kalisz. Tomorrow, it will be a new town.
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