Photoreport from a place you already know anyway
Some of you may be interested in learning that I finally got to Kraków this year. On 24 June. No, I didn’t walk all the way, why? Anyway, since last time you hadn’t hate the Tarnów tale too much, I thought besides my business I could make a photoreport for you. One with people on the pics. Consider it your last warning.
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The Collegium does look very Unseen University, heh! And you're rifht, that's a very eclectic collection of stuff, but very neat!
So, sightgroping. I like those, they make a classy addition even if you don’t really need them.
Me too. They're a neat idea, and I like touching them (if no person for whose benefit they are there is around), because they provide a different perspective, complementary to the looking.
but I think it would demand a dragon wearing a peacock-feathered cap and munching on a bagel, or something
Heh!
I didn't realize there was a Banach statue in Krakow, or B would've wanted to go see it (me, I only know who Banach is because L had a classmate with that last name, and B wanted to know if he was related to the mathematician. Not as far as he knew.)
I don't know what the big-eyed alian things are, but they're cute!
And yay amber and wooden boxes, I remember shopping for both in Krakow very fondly!
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That's good to hear, uff. XD
(though the figures are new, and very cool!)
Yep, installed last year, if I'm not mistaken.
(and it looks like the Belgian fries stall we saw in 2014 is still alive and well underneath it, heh)
I actually wondered if it was this one! :D
because they provide a different perspective, complementary to the looking.
Also, I like scale models in general. And - exactly - even if one can see the actual building, the model stil can show more of it in a way you can't get from the ground. For one, I thought about those aerial views of modern churches I had in a Menagerie the other day.
I didn't realize there was a Banach statue in Krakow, or B would've wanted to go see it
Don't worry, that bench is a very new thing. Apparently they made it just on autumn 2016.
More details with greetings for B, in such case. Hugo Steinhaus wrote in his memories that in 1916 he went on a walk in the Planty and overheard two men sitting on a bench and talking math, who turned out Banach and Nikodym. This was the beginning of the friendship of the all three. Here's an article in the magazine of the Polish Academy of Learning, relating the process of deduction about where precisely that bench could have been, to put a memorial there. In the article there's shown a plaque that was made in 2013 (about a month or two before the article), and the figures on the photo were put there two and half a year after that, and in a slightly different place. It also mentions another, more typically monumental monument of Banach in Kraków that was unveiled in 1999, in front of what had been Math and Physics Institute of JU in Banach's time. Here's another article - a guide for Banach-themed trip around Kraków and Lviv.
I don't know what the big-eyed alian things are, but they're cute!
I heard people saying "UFO", too, but to me they were rather owlish. :)
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OK, that makes me feel better about missing it! But now we have to go back to Krakow and see it :) (and JU in general, of course -- this is such awesome stuff!)
(Lviv/L'vov is a city we've wanted to get to for a long time, but it sadly requires visa hoop jumps... Some day!)
They do look kind of owlish, too! But my first thought was definitely aliens :)
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Correct conclusion. ;>
(and JU in general, of course -- this is such awesome stuff!)
The other day you said there's a chance you might like it more than the Jewrassic Park, and I thought my post was going to have a lucky timing and help you decide about whether you want to go there! :D
They do look kind of owlish, too! But my first thought was definitely aliens :)
It was a reverse to me - I saw them, I thought "Owls!", then heard them being called UFO, and thought "Well, kind of, too..." :)
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Very good timing indeed! (And I was just telling B the other day that I think I've gotten over Jewrassic Park enough at this point that I'd want to visit Krakow again at some point in the near horizon. Tatry, too, although I'm not sure when we'll have enough time to do all that, with the rodents' summer schedules becoming ever more complicated...)
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*squeeee!* :D
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