3 amusing incidents during our visit.
Poland 2007I sat with Peter Kennedy for breakfast one morning in Krakow.
‘Did you go into town last night?’ I asked.
‘Yes we did.’
‘Did you walk round the square?’
‘Yes we did.’
‘What did you think of it.’
‘It were alright.’
‘But what about the stage?’
‘What stage?’ Only the biggest and brightest structure in W. Europe.
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Six of us were sat under parasols in Krakow square, about to order coffee after our evening meal. Big Dave, my large pal from Edinburgh, sits back, smacks his lips, and rubs his hands together, ‘I could just do abiscuit.’
A young serving wench came to take our order. ‘Five coffees and a biscuit please.’
‘Coffee, er er.’ Big Dave smiled and mimed the act of eating a biscuit, or so he thought. A huge slab of chocolate cake arrived three minutes later, enough to feed us all.
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JRR and I decided to stay on the ground floor of The Museum of Science and Culture, both being windy at height. We walked across the foyer and sat at table and chairs. ‘I’ll have a coke,’ I said in reply to JRR’s polite query. He then wandered over to the bar area and engaged the young serving lady in conversation. What seemed a long timepassed before he returned with two coffees. He looked sheepish, ‘I don’t think I quite got what I ordered.
