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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Rynek Underground Following The Traces of European Identity of Krakow
Dearest friends,
Yours truly,
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Do you know which museum was picked as "Travellers Choice 2014 Winner" and is listed on 4th place (out of 10) of Best Museums in Poland? The top 3 were:
1. Auschwitz - Birkenau State Museum
2. Warsaw Uprising Museum (which my awesome husband and I visted the first time I was in Warsaw)
3. Polish Aviation Museum (where each year there is an Air Festival - Malopolski Piknik Lotniczy Air Festival)
and the lovely museum that I will tell you about today, and the glorious winner of the 4th place, is the Rynek Underground Museum :) Part of the National Museum of Krakow it is ranked #15 of 131 attractions in Krakow (as per Tripadvisor). Its address is simple: Rynek Glowny 1, Krakow 31-042, Poland (Stare Miasto). It is located in the old city center, right below Sukienicce ;)
and the lovely museum that I will tell you about today, and the glorious winner of the 4th place, is the Rynek Underground Museum :) Part of the National Museum of Krakow it is ranked #15 of 131 attractions in Krakow (as per Tripadvisor). Its address is simple: Rynek Glowny 1, Krakow 31-042, Poland (Stare Miasto). It is located in the old city center, right below Sukienicce ;)
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| View from inside the museum, looking up at the St. Mary |
No matter the time or day or season, it is a pleasure to visit it. If you are wishing though for a short museum visit, than this is not the museum for you! Each time I get there I end up staying at least 3 hours... There are so many objects displayed and so many places you can interact, that you should just take your time and see them one by one - your may come out overwhelmed and with a slight headache but you will love this place nonetheless :)
The exhibition is both informative and interactive so children can have fun as well. Actually each time I was there, there were a lot of children visiting and touching the selected exponates that you can have a go at. Also there is a special kids corner that looked very much fun to be in, but I was unfortunately too old to be allowed :(
There are a lot of reconstructions that show the vistors how life was in the medieval time in Krakow and its surroundings. There is a lot of information stored on the monitors/displays but unfortunately there is only one monitor per exhibit so you might have to wait your turn...
A part of the expo may be not so suited for the children, but very attractive to Romanian tourists and Supernatural fans: the room with the vampires :) When they started the excavations under the Sukienicce they found a cemetery as well. Inside the small cemetery they also found a couple of interesting bodies burried in a different way than the others - burried with their hands and feet tied and in a fetal position (not the stand up straight, normal type of burial position). That type of position was specific for that age for the people who were believed to be vampires. There is a special area with plexiglass where you actually walk over their graves...
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| One of the main rooms of the Museum reminded me very much of the Louvre |
A lot of people from around the world give praise to the technology incorporated in this museum. Take for example Lizzy from Connecticut: "First off, we are medieval history buffs so take that into consideration when you read this review. I give this musem a "5" rating due to its great incorporation of technology. We went on a Thursday night, my husband just arrived from the US and without sleep, and spend three solid hours there without him falling over! The technology is super - I wish other great museums in the world woutd take heed and learn to incorporate technology this way. We rented the headsets for a dollar or two, and they are a bit wonky - seem to go on and off when they want. I would say skip them since they basically read some, but not all, of the posted material. We stayed a long time because we used the interactive screens at many stops. Available in many languages (choose menu in the top left first), then you can read about the display or the actual finds. Also VERY well done are the simulated street scenes with people walking around (on film, but through mist like you are seeing through time), and the noises of street life. It reminds me a bit of Jorvik Viking centre and Pompeii, although that technology is much older. There is a 180 degree theater which is silent but with very cool images from about 1000 through Pope John Paul II, Just watching the images overlapping is hypnotic.
The second half of the museum has several films - they last quite a while but have seating which is welcome by that point. We watched the medieval (complete with gruesome torture chamber scenes, not too bad but yucky enough with chopped of toes and body parts to enchant young boys!), and renaissance films. The films do a good job of explaining history of all Krakow. We really felt like we had a great overview of Krakow before we saw any other sights, so I would strongly recommend it as a first stop!The museum goes on a long way. At the end is a small exhibit on 2 screens which show how they put the museum together with actors, green screen, exhibits, etc. It makes me wish I had been around to participate."
This particular piece inside the museum (pictured above) made me shiver... It depicts an anthropoligical surprise for the team excavating - a skeleton (to be more precise, the head!) of a man who lived around 40 years of age and got a trepanation performed in the 11th century! If you dont know what is a trepanation... well... there ya go - Wikipedia help - Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives via Old French and therefrom via Medieval Latin from the Greek noun of relevant meaning trypanon, literally "(a) borer, (an) auger") is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the dura mater to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases. It may also refer to any "burr" hole created through other body surfaces, including nail beds. It is often used to relieve pressure beneath a surface. A trephine is an instrument used for cutting out a round piece of skull bone.
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| Gallery with the photos from excavating under Sukienicce |
In ancient times, holes were drilled into a person who was behaving in what was considered an abnormal way to let out what they believed were evil spirits. Evidence of trepanation has been found in prehistoric human remains from Neolithic times onward. Cave paintings indicate that people believed the practice would cure epileptic seizures, migraines, and mental disorders.The bone that was trepanned was kept by the prehistoric people and may have been worn as a charm to keep evil spirits away. Evidence also suggests that trepanation was primitive emergency surgery after head wounds to remove shattered bits of bone from a fractured skull and clean out the blood that often pools under the skull after a blow to the head. Such injuries were typical for primitive weaponry such as slings and war clubs.
But enough of that, or I will spoil all the fun of YOU discovering this wonderful museum. It is the kind of museum you fall in love with and when you go out you feel like your brain cells are more happy, and even the dents in our brain are much deep ;))) So I recommend it with all my heart - especially if you are in Krakow and you catch a rainy day in which all you wanna do is be inside. Plus at the end of the expo they have a really nice and cozy cafe place ;)
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Here are some details about the price and opening hours:
Tickets:
- regular 19 PLN
- concessionary 16 PLN
- group 15 PLN
- schools 10 PLN
- family 38 PLN (2 adults and 2 children up to 16, or 1 adult and 3 children up to 16)
- VIP ticket 40 PLN
- guide for groups 120 PLN
- guide for schools 90 PLN
Opening hours:
*Winter season (November – March)
*Winter season (November – March)
- Monday, Wednesday - Sunday 10.00-20.00
- Tuesday 10.00-16.00 (no charge)
*Summer season (April – October)
- Monday, Wednesday - Sunday 10.00-22.00
- Tuesday 10.00-16.00 (no charge)
Exhibition is closed on every first Tuesday of the month.
You can also make the reservations online and just come and pick the tickets :) Enjoy!
Yours truly,
A LadyBug That Loves Interactive Museums!
For The Love Of Books
Dear friends,
Today is quote day for me :p as I wanted to share with you for a while long the below...
“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
Quote by Rosemarie Urquico
P.S. Pictures were taken in the lovely end of June, I believe one day or 2 after I bought a very interesting and good book called "Sunnyside" - fictional homage/story by Glen David Gold about the life and people (unknown) surrounding Charlie Chaplin :)
Hope you enjoyed todays post :*
The LadyBug :)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Monday, March 9, 2015
List of Audi India Dealerships with contact details
Here is the list of Audi India dealerships with their contact details:
Audi Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
Address :
" Rudra-Path "
Nr. Rajpath Club,
S.G.Road,
Ahmedabad.
Phone :
99980 01123, 079-40009521/22
E-Mail ID :
info@audiahmedabad.com
Audi Bangalore (Karnataka)
Address :
Survey No. 6/1, Beratana Agrahara,
15 Km Road, Hosur Main Road,
Electronic City P.o.,Bangalore - 560100
Phone :
(080) 43305800,(080) 43305801
Email :
info@audibangalore.in
Audi Chandigarh (Chandigarh)
Address :
171, Industrial Area,phase 1,
Chandigarh - 160002
Phone :
(0172) 3088888, (0) 9876429103
E-Mail ID :
info@audichandigarh.in
Audi Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
Address :
D-6, South Phase,ambattur Industrial Estate,
Chennai - 600058
Phone :
(044) 32428698,(0) 9600095024,(044) 43907450
E-Mail ID :
info@audichennai.in
Audi Cochin / Kochi (Kerala)
Address :
Survey No. 228/1,nh. 47, Vytilla Aroor Bypass Road,
marudu P.o. Kochi - 682304
Phone :
(0484) 4147777,(0) 9249412345
E-Mail ID :
info@audikochi.in
Audi Delhi (New Delhi)
Address :
B1/h1, M.c.i.e.,mathura Road,
New Delhi - 110044.
Phone :
(011) 46007300,(0) 9999917415
E-Mail ID :
info@audidelhi.net
Audi Gurgaon (Haryana)
Address :
Orchid Centre,sector 53,
golf Course Road,Gurgaon - 122001
Phone :
(0124) 4510200, (0) 9650555111
E-Mail ID :
info@audigurgaon.in
Audi Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)
Address :
8-2-684/a,road No.12,banjara Hills,
Hyderabad - 500034
Phone :
(040) 23324545,(0) 9959700007
E-Mail ID :
sales@audihyderabad.in
Audi Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
Address : NRK Business Park,
Sch No.54-PU4
Vijay Nagar Square,
Indore - 452010
Phone: 91 731 4277100
E-Mail ID : sales@audiindore.com
Audi Jaipur ( Rajasthan)
Address :
Opposite G.p.o.,m.i. Road,
Jaipur - 302001
Phone :
(0141) 2370434,(0) 88750 20001
E-Mail ID : N/A
Audi Kolkata (West Bengal)
Address :
9, A.j.c Bose Road,
Kolkata - 700017
Phone :
(033) 40156666, (0) 9163036666
E-Mail ID : N/A
Audi Ludhiana (Punjab)
Address :
Plot No.3,GT Road,
near Dhandari Kalan Railway Station,
Ludhiana - 140010
Phone :
(0161) 3088888,(0) 9915734488
E-Mail ID :
info@audiludhiana.ind.in
Audi Mumbai West (Maharashtra)
Address :
New Link Road,
Andheri (west), Mumbai - 400053
Phone :
(0) 9004077777
E-Mail ID :
info@audimumbaiwest.in
Audi Pune (Maharashtra)
Address :
Pro1 Business Centre,plot No. 395 + 396,
senapati Bapat Road,
shivajinagar, Pune - 411016
Phone :
(020) 41004747,(0) 9922000626
E-Mail ID :
info@audipune.in
Audi Surat (Gujarat)
Address :
Surat Dumas Road,
Surat-395007
Phone :
261-6551101,(0) 9662515080
E-Mail ID :
info@audisurat.com
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Audi Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
Address :
" Rudra-Path "
Nr. Rajpath Club,
S.G.Road,
Ahmedabad.
Phone :
99980 01123, 079-40009521/22
E-Mail ID :
info@audiahmedabad.com
Audi Bangalore (Karnataka)
Address :
Survey No. 6/1, Beratana Agrahara,
15 Km Road, Hosur Main Road,
Electronic City P.o.,Bangalore - 560100
Phone :
(080) 43305800,(080) 43305801
Email :
info@audibangalore.in
Audi Chandigarh (Chandigarh)
Address :
171, Industrial Area,phase 1,
Chandigarh - 160002
Phone :
(0172) 3088888, (0) 9876429103
E-Mail ID :
info@audichandigarh.in
Audi Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
Address :
D-6, South Phase,ambattur Industrial Estate,
Chennai - 600058
Phone :
(044) 32428698,(0) 9600095024,(044) 43907450
E-Mail ID :
info@audichennai.in
Audi Cochin / Kochi (Kerala)
Address :
Survey No. 228/1,nh. 47, Vytilla Aroor Bypass Road,
marudu P.o. Kochi - 682304
Phone :
(0484) 4147777,(0) 9249412345
E-Mail ID :
info@audikochi.in
Audi Delhi (New Delhi)
Address :
B1/h1, M.c.i.e.,mathura Road,
New Delhi - 110044.
Phone :
(011) 46007300,(0) 9999917415
E-Mail ID :
info@audidelhi.net
Audi Gurgaon (Haryana)
Address :
Orchid Centre,sector 53,
golf Course Road,Gurgaon - 122001
Phone :
(0124) 4510200, (0) 9650555111
E-Mail ID :
info@audigurgaon.in
Audi Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)
Address :
8-2-684/a,road No.12,banjara Hills,
Hyderabad - 500034
Phone :
(040) 23324545,(0) 9959700007
E-Mail ID :
sales@audihyderabad.in
Audi Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
Address : NRK Business Park,
Sch No.54-PU4
Vijay Nagar Square,
Indore - 452010
Phone: 91 731 4277100
E-Mail ID : sales@audiindore.com
Audi Jaipur ( Rajasthan)
Address :
Opposite G.p.o.,m.i. Road,
Jaipur - 302001
Phone :
(0141) 2370434,(0) 88750 20001
E-Mail ID : N/A
Audi Kolkata (West Bengal)
Address :
9, A.j.c Bose Road,
Kolkata - 700017
Phone :
(033) 40156666, (0) 9163036666
E-Mail ID : N/A
Audi Ludhiana (Punjab)
Address :
Plot No.3,GT Road,
near Dhandari Kalan Railway Station,
Ludhiana - 140010
Phone :
(0161) 3088888,(0) 9915734488
E-Mail ID :
info@audiludhiana.ind.in
Audi Mumbai West (Maharashtra)
Address :
New Link Road,
Andheri (west), Mumbai - 400053
Phone :
(0) 9004077777
E-Mail ID :
info@audimumbaiwest.in
Audi Pune (Maharashtra)
Address :
Pro1 Business Centre,plot No. 395 + 396,
senapati Bapat Road,
shivajinagar, Pune - 411016
Phone :
(020) 41004747,(0) 9922000626
E-Mail ID :
info@audipune.in
Audi Surat (Gujarat)
Address :
Surat Dumas Road,
Surat-395007
Phone :
261-6551101,(0) 9662515080
E-Mail ID :
info@audisurat.com
Monday, February 23, 2015
The Story of Dodge and the Significance of Car Reviews
In the year 1769, Nicholas Jose Cugnot conceived the very first self propelled street automobile. Ever since that year, the creation and also advancement involving a lot more autos elevated. In 1862, Frenchman Etienne Lenoir got his initial functional petrol motor branded and he made use of in driving an automobile starting from Paris, France to Joinville. Then the first ever gasoline powered vehicle was created in 1893 by Charles Duryea and Joe Duryea.
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