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Jaga,
I am in Moscow - Where are you?
As far as my husband he comes and goes. The troops always appreciate presents! The major complaint I have heard from them is that they are unable to get good bread or coffee outside of Poland. After being in Poland I have to agree with them that what we accept as bread or coffee in the states is hardly passable!

Hollister,

thanks. I am in Idaho Falls, far from Moscow. Moscow has a nice university, does it not?

Polish bread is delicious, I agree!

Hello, I am a Kibbutz member in Israel, near the Sea of Galilee name Ein-Gev.
Yesterday a group of polish citizens visited our Fish Restaurant with very fancy customs. They looked like 13th Cen soldiers. They told me we are from Krakow, we are the Walls Gaurds of the city. A very old organization that still exist today.
In my search for more information about this organization I decided to enter to the Forum.

Can someone tell me about them or where can I read and see pictures on that issue ?!
Thanks for any help:
Yoel Ben-Yosef
Kibbutz Ein-Gev
Lake Kinneret-Valley
m-p. Jordan-Valley
I S R A E L

Yoel,

thanks for posting! Do you know how these people called their organization in Polish?

Did they look something like that?

(this is so called "Bractwo kurkowe" in Krakow

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Now I realized that the exact translation of the "wall guards" may be "gwardia murowa" or "gwardia miejska". In Poland the members of different guilds were going to protect different bastions of the town and they have their own coctumes.

Here below is the picture of the guard of the guild of furriers:

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Hmmmmm..... Any possibility that this could represent also the traditon in Krakow. That they play "Hej Nal" (I believe) from the four sides of the tower at St. Mary's Church to honor the guard who warned the city of attack from the Tartars?

Hussar,
good idea. I know that the Krakow trumpeters go to tours to meet with the people all around the world. I meet a musician in Germany who knew some trumpeters from such trips.

Let me refresh this thread since this is the only one I can get to. My e-mail account does not work again, my internet works very slow.

We are just getting ready to go to church, I will try to get back to the internet when we will be back.

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I'm from Poznan, Poland.
First, I was searching for some info on so caled "Fat Thursday" and I got here.
It's fascinating for me to see so many people interested in Polan. i hope this is going to be a chance for me to practsie English as I have to use it every day at work (at an editorial office for a scientific journal - an ambitious and a very badly-paid job).
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