Brian Visits Friends – Sunday Evening - April 17, 2011

On Sunday evening I met up with my friends Kinga and Wojciech for dinner in Kazimierz. I On Sunday evening I met up with my friends Kinga and Wojciech for dinner in Kazimierz. I was looking forward to catching up with them as I had last seen them in 2008 and they were subsequently married 11 months ago.

I am happy to report that their greeting card business is slowly taking off and that her architecture business has landed a prominent hotel developer for which she will be the project manager for two of his new hotel projects in Poland.

As for dinner I had a very good stuffed bell pepper which was unlike what Toni makes. (And she makes good ones.) To begin with it was a red pepper that was filled with rice, roasted vegetables, and parmesan and mozzarella cheeses. And they served it with the lid of the pepper propped on top.

After dinner we walked along the new footbridge over the Wisla River and into Podgorze where we stopped at a café to continue talking. It was over dinner that I learned more about the wedding customs in Poland. Although they did not have the three day party that is typical of “country weddings’ they did have a party after the wedding. But before that they had a wedding ceremony at Salwator Church followed by a dinner for close family members. Then it was off to the reception at Przegorzaly Tower. The reception was a long affair beginning at 8 p.m. and ending at 4 a.m. the next day. And Kinga and Wojciech were obliged to be present for the entire 8 hours. Luckily, they had a room at the Tower and were not heading off on a honeymoon immediately. It sounded like a really nice time. And from what I can tell they are very much still in love as they end their first 12 months of matrimony.

After that we walked back towards the Holiday Inn as we talked about their greeting card business. (Shameless plug: http://www.krstudio.pl/kolekcja.html)

It was good seeing them and catching up on 2 ½ years worth of news.