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Seanus:
Is that where he keeps JK when he becomes 'inconvenient and awkward'?


You mean a vodoo doll?
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Does Tusk do voodoo or does voodoo do him?
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pawian:
There is a small statue/figure in the tower. What?



So, you need more time for that.

Next one:

1 Where do sheep usually graze in Krakow?
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Passing that off as Poland, pawian? ;) ;) That's the NE of Scotland :)

My guess would be just outside the city :)
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Seanus:
My guess would be just outside the city :)



You will be surprised. :):):):)
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the figurine is one of Saint Florian who is a patron of fire fighters and the tower is part of a volunteer fire brigade post
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I'll pass, pawian, as I don't know Kraków well enough. As you know, I was there not so long ago but I really don't know the city so well. However, I sense that that area is not so far from Wawel. I didn't explore one side of it so it could be there.
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gumishu:
the figurine is one of Saint Florian who is a patron of fire fighters and the tower is part of a volunteer fire brigade post



Gumi, I was waiting for you! Perfect!
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pawian:
Where do sheep usually graze in Krakow?

Disclaimer: I know very little of Kraków. But a puzzle is a puzzle. So, following the Sherlock Holmes footsteps:
1. Kraków Zoo (I saw pictures of Mane Sheep and Heather Sheep there)
2. University of Agriculture, Department of Animal Sciences, Chair of Breeding of Sheep and Goats - Experimental Station in Bielany
3. Błonie Meadows. Are there any trees? It looks like there are some at the borders. And I saw this article from September 9, 2011, http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/regionalne/krakow/niezwykli-goscie-w-krakowi e-niektorzy-sie-boja,1,4844318,wiadomosc.html

So it must have been a sensation. Sheep came there on 8th, and you were there with your camera three days later, on Sunday. How am I doing dr. Watson?
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boletus:
2. University of Agriculture, Department of Animal Sciences, Chair of Breeding of Sheep and Goats - Experimental Station in Bielany


Wow! Didn`t hear about it.

boletus:
1. Kraków Zoo (I saw pictures of Mane Sheep and Heather Sheep there)


There are a few but not so many as in......
boletus:
Błonie Meadows. Are there any trees? It looks like there are some at the borders. And I saw this article from September 9, 2011, So it must have been a sensation. Sheep came there on 8th, and you were there with your camera three days later, on Sunday. How am I doing dr. Watson?


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Anyone know what this is for?
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storing potatoes? A root cellar?
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I'm going to say this is a root cellar, assuming it's doorway is pointing South. The reason it would be outside the modern fence line would be because properties used to extend all the way to the road.

Btw, I'm curious. Where was this taken? :)


[imgs=http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnieszka/3323242/]Polish Potato Cellar[/imgs]

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Thanks for your answers, it's facing south-east (I think)
polishmama:
Btw, I'm curious. Where was this taken?

Just outside of Kielce
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so, what is it?
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rybnik:
so, what is it?

I didn't know when I posted the photo, but I think we can quite safely say it's a root cellar
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One of my Ciocias has one pretty similar on her property and she said it was a root cellar (piwnica) that was older than her Babcia :) It faced the general direction of South to let in light.
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polishmama:
she said it was a root cellar (piwnica)

Well, actually Polish does not map well to English here. Piwnica means usually the lowest underground level of the building.

piwnica = general purpose cellar (but not basement apartment-wise)
piwnica na ziemniaki = cellar for potatoes
piwnica na wino = wine cellar
piwnica na węgiel = coal cellar
piwnica z kotłownią, pralnią = cellar with boiler room, laundry room

Translating from basement in English to Polish gets you to all of the above + suterena.

suterena=basement apartment

"Root cellar" has also inconsistent mapping from Polish.

kopiec = mount, knoll
kopiec na warzywa (buraki, ziemniaki) = storage clamp or (less correctly) root cellar

ziemianka = dugout (shelter)
ziemianka na warzywa, owoce = root cellar
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I really wish I was still on speaking terms with my mother. I'd love to pick her brains on this. Since her side is the side from the villages, my father's side is all city dwellers from higher classes. I'll have to ask my father about this, perhaps he might have some small knowledge on it.

I fondly remember staying at another Ciocia's flat in the countryside and inhaling all of her green apple compote that she had put aside for the winter. I apologized profusely afterwards, but it was so delicious! And she stored it in the piwnica of the apartment building. I might have the two memories of the words and storages intertwined in my memory. The root cellar my other Ciocia had that was in the ground was something else to see inside. She said it was very old and it certainly looked like it. You had to bring a flashlight with you to go in and it really was very cool and dark inside compared to the outside. There was also a wooden cross inside and some other items on a shelf. I have no idea what their purpose was, perhaps some old country superstition to protect the food in the root cellar.

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