Thursday, June 2, 2011

3rd Partnership Meeting - Bialystok, Poland

Friday May 20th, 2011
We all meet at 9.00 a.m. at the Cristal Hotel entrance. After, we go by bus to Tykocin where we visit the catholic church, the synagogue and the Jewish Culture Museum. Then we go for lunch in Folwark Nadawki, where we learn how to make “pierogi”. In the afternoon, we to visit the Orthodox Icons Museum in Suprasl. In the evening, we have an international dinner where we taste typical meals from partner countries – Italy, Estonia, Turkey, Portugal, Finland and Poland. We sing, we dance and we have a good fun! Now we become friends!
Saturday May 21st, 2011
Today we meet at CKU to see presentations of participant’s countries. At the end of the meeting we also watch the presentation of Podlasie region. Later we go for lunch at noon in Esperanto CafĂ©. After lunch we visit Bialystok with a tourist guide. We see a lot of cultural events around the city. Bialystok is a real cultural melting pot! In the evening we have dinner in Tokaj restaurant where we taste Hungarian cuisine.
Sunday May 22nd, 2011
At 8.00 a.m. we leave for Bialowieza. We visit bison’s reserve. We buy souvenirs from Podlasie region – “Zubrowka” grass, honey, wooden rural utensils, herbs. We have a nice cold glass of beer in “Car’s Restaurant”. Around noon we go for lunch in Siolo Budy. There, after lunch, we have an international how-to-make-a-butter course. Of course we all taste it. It is delicious! After the visit a typical XIX-century farm. There we see how hard was the work of our grandparents. After the visit we walk along “King’s Oaks Alley” in the primeval forest. In the evening we go back to Bialystok – tired but happy. We say goodbye and we hope to meet again soon!
Text by Polish Team