Uaah, greetings and welcome to another open-threaded bit of fluff, community-flavored goodness from your ol’ friend Marko. Uaaah, your sleepy ol’ friend Marko.
This week, I’m continuing my series of photo diaries on my trip last year to Poland. We’re getting close to the end. The Archaeological Museum in Biskupin was our last stop before the last leg of our journey homeward, but I’ve got a lot of photos from Biskupin.
Been a long week with grand adventures in laundry. Looking forward to tomorrow when I’ll be wrestling something around 10 pounds of noodle dough. Heading back across town, meeting up with the lads and spending part of the afternoon and evening taking down the Christmas tree and making pelmeni. It’s a family tradition started by Mrs the Werelynx’s grandparents, her grandfather was an engineer who traveled to several different countries on three continents building radio and television towers. Pelmeni aren’t a traditional Czech dish. They’re a sort of pasta envelope similar to tortellini or ravioli filled with ground pork and beef and minced onion, but they come from Russia where they’re usually served with sour cream. Somehow, while living in China, the grandparents had a cook who made these Russian style wonton and served them with a strong meat broth. Once back in Prague, Mrs the Werelynx’s grandmother continued to cook this dish for her family, now with an additional dollop of mustard and fresh-crushed garlic in the broth.
Hmm, I’ve already had dinner. Silly of me to be drooling like this again …
How about some distractions?
The Archaeological Museum in Biskupin
On a hunk of marshy land that’s been occupied since the paleolithic, the Poles have built up a remarkable collection of buildings that recreate the various phases of human settlement in the area.
Careful on the steep steps, sensible footware only and keep your miserable little brats under control! Or rather, children require adult supervision.
Okay, we’re off to a cool start with these massive wooden stairs.
Up and over a narrow-gauge railway.
Some stone-age huts
Dugout canoes in various stages of completion
There was a nice section on early cultivated plants. This is just a sample of the plants on display.
A display of the progression of wheat from wild varieties to cultivated varieties
A few rows of Dyer’s Woad
White Millet
The Long House
There was even a building housing display cases featuring artifacts found in the Biskupin area and on other sites around Poland.
Finds from the New Opera site in Bydgoszcz
I visited Bydgoszcz and wrote about it: Part I and Part II. The under-construction opera house is seen in a few of my photos.
Behind one of the recreated stone-age buildings there was this unremarkable tiny pond:
It turned out to be a sacred spring!
Kinda broke my own rule for posting tiny pictures here on DK, but this counts as two pictures and I thought it should be legible.
A beautiful walk down a road through the woods
Evidence of water everywhere
The ferry across Lake Biskupin is another way to reach this museum, but we walked.
And next week we should be turning around from the ferry’s pier and checking out a late bronze-age fortified town.
Surely I couldn’t fit all of this place in one diary.
Thanks for stopping by.
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