SOME PIECE OF MUSIC

         ŁĄKI ŁAN is a polish band, which plays combination of two tipe of music: punk and funk. The band calls its style as : ŁĄKI FUNK. Łąki Łan was founded in 2002. Their debut album Łąki Łan came out in September of 2005. The band is known for their really energic, colorful, humorous shows and imaginative concert outfits that resemble various insects. The band has also an electronic side and their drumm'n bass tracks could easily be played in clubs. Second album, ŁąkiŁanda, was released on 8 May 2009 and was nominated for the Fryderyk award in the category "Album of the year - Alternative". The third album, Armanda, was released  on 13 November 2012. I can't wait when their next album would come out. Łąki Łan was a guest during of some most important Polish festival such as : Open'er Festival, Coke Live Music and Przystanek Woodstock. I have seen all their concerts which took place in Szczecin. 

BAND MEMBERS :

-  Jarosław Jóźwik ( "Poń Kolny") - keyboards

-  Michał Chęć ("Niesforny Bonk") - guitar, vocals

-  Bartek Królik ("Zając Cokictokloc") - bass guitar. keyboards, vocals

-  Marek Piotrowski ("Jeżus Marian") - keyboards

-  Piotr Koźbielski ("MegaMotyl") - drums, vocals

-  Włodzimierz Dembowski ("Paprodziad") - vocals

You have to listen  their some piece of  music. Enjoy ! :) Here is my favourite song. 

Foreign friends

   I spent my last weekend in Prague. It was a small travel connected with meeting my friends from the time when i had partecipated in Erasmus programme in Lecce. I met a lot of great young from so many different countries during my stay in Lecce but unfortunatly I saw only one guy from France and the girl from Australia in Prague.. It was really great to see their one more time. This kind of meeting shows the fact, that even if we live in others countries and continents is always a way to meet each other. I always appreciate the opportunity to speak in different language, to get to know more about the others cultures ecc. When we deppen the knowledge about others cultures we learn so much about world, about people. I had a chance to make short conversation with French guy about last  terrorist attack in Paris, this helped me to underestand how that horrible act was seen by French society. Nowdays, when travelling is quicker and easier than was 20 yeras ago. We have to only save some money, search cheap flights and go to visit the interesting place in the world. 

    Have you got some foreign friend with whom you mantain regular contact ?

GEORGIAN CUISINE

  Cuisine is very important part of Georgian life and tradition. Climate ensure abundance of yields, fruits, vegetables and another delicious things. In the warm sun mature tomatos, watermelons, melons, grapes, persimmons and aubergines. The mountain pastures suppiled mutton and ewe cheese. 

   The main dish is very often khinkali: it's kind of dumpling filled with various fillings, mostly with spiced meat. They have very specific shape and when they are served warm they have hot broth inside. The way how to eat khinkali is also important.  We  have to suck the juice while we are taking the first bite and then we can continue to eat whole the dumpling.  The top, where the pleats meet, is though and is not supposed to be eaten.

    Other Georgian dish is Khachapuri. It's a bread filled by cheese. The bread is leavened and allowed to rise and is shaped in various ways. Moreover the filling contain cheese and eggs, Khachapuri has the same importance fo Georgian as pizza for Italian.

           Sulguni cheese with a sour and salty flavor is very popular in Giorgia,

  Mcwadi is a shashlik with spices, prepared from sheepmeat, During the autumn Geogrian season them with grains of pomegranates.

    Churchkhela is a traditional sausage - shaped candy made out of grape must, nuts and flour but also almonds, walnuts, hazel nuts and sometimes raisins. All the ingredients are threaded into a string, dipped in thickened grape juice and dried in the shape of a sausage.

BATUMI

       Batumi is a wonderful place to visit. It is placed on the Black See and it is sorrounded by montains. It is the second biggest city of Georgia after Tibilisi, it is also the capital city of autonomous region Adjara and lies near to Turkey. Pepole in Batumi speak usually Georgian and Russian, only sometimes English. They are very easy- going and hospitable.

      Batumi has a beautiful old city from Russian Rule Period but also a lot of modern buildings, luxury hotels and restaurants. Everyone who visit Batumi should try dumplings Kinkali, salty pie  Chaczapuri, cheese salgun and of course delicious georgian wine. All these things i will describe in the next post.. A very humid climate in Batumi gave an opportunity to build the one of biggest Botanical Garden in the world. It consist of nine floristic sectors, those of Caucasian humid subtropics, East Asia, New Zealand, South America, the Himalayas, Mexico, Australia and of the Mediterranean.

   There are a lot of festivals like Jazz festival in July or Batumi Film Festival in September. In summer the city changes to one of the best party destination on the Black Sea. I recommended it to everyone, who likes to have fun, relax, get to know Georgian culture and cherisch beatiful nature.

Georgia

   Last week I had an occasion to be in Georgia. The flights from Warsaw to Giorgia are very cheap so it can be a very economic chance to visit this country. I'm going to write several post about Giorgia starting of course from some general informations. 

   Georgia is the small country situated in the South Caucasus. The capital of Georgia is Tbilisi but the seat of Parliament is in Kutaisi. When you go to Georgia you don't need to speak Georgian. Most of people speak Russian and in the lot of cases when you say something in Polish they are able to recognize what you mean. For the daily shopping georgians can pay in their own currency Lari. A lot of people think that Georgia depends to areas which are backward but in reality is not like that. The big cities are very developed.
    People from Georgia are very friendly. The best example of hospitality can be owner of our hostel. First of all: he was waiting for us at aiport then he took us to the hostel and when we arrived ahe gave us bootle of her own wine. In the mornig it was waiting for us delicious breakfast with  traditional georgian dishes. I'm going to describe some of them in next post.

Caucasus

 

               

PASZTECIK

      I saw that some of you wrote something about food especially of italian food which is ofcourse delicious but what about our polish food and local dish? I would like to present a dish originating in my region - " SZCZECIŃSKI PASZTECIK". What is it? It's a deep fried yeast dough stuffed with meat or vegetarian filling. It was very popular in the communist times but has the popularity also nowdays. The first local with Pasztecik was founded in 1969 and it's still functioning. The dough is crispy outside and soft inside. Exist three main types of filling : minced beef, sauerkraut and dried mushrooms, cheese and champignons. We can meet also Pasztecik with egg filling. "Pasztecik" is always served with the red borscht. From 22 December 2010 "pasztecik szczeciński" is listed on the official Polish traditional products list and is also  protected by the European Union law what means that all the "pasztecik" have to be made according to traditional recipe. If some of you will be in Szczecin i invite you to visit the oldest local with "pasztecik" situated on Wojska Polskiego 46.                                                                         

                                                          What's your local food? 

Szczecin

    Many of people who live far away from Szczecin think that my city is situated by the sea. There was even a joke that to the sea we can get by tram number 10 ( but in fact there is no tram number 10 in Szczecin ). We don't have beach, dunes, jetty and other things. Sea is located about 100 km from Szczecin so this is not so close. Ok, we don't have the sea but in Szczecin you can visit a lot of intresting things which i see after my move to Poznań. Poznań is also beautiful ( and has the marketplace which we unfortunetly don't have ) but when you live in another city you appreciate more the one's own. What can we see in Szczecin ?

•  The largest non-military shelter in Poland 

• The biggest cemetery in Poland and  the third biggest cemetery in Europe

• Factory of chocolate "Gryf" ( the intresting fact is that very often you can smell the chocolate in the air )

• Szczecin has wonderful entry to the city

• Bulwary 

   Obviously there are more entertaing places in Szczecin you have to come here and visit them all. I can be your guide !