Sunday, August 07, 2005

August 6th Gdansk

August 6th Gdansk....cloudless skies...then biting cold rain...then a sky and light right out of Vermeer....

The Dominican Fair in Gdansk is the local equivalent of LR's Riverfest with lots of people walking around eating waffles topped with schlag....the locals call them gofrys....(from gauffre?)....all kinds of folk groups entertaining...I am drawn to an authentic Sioux American troupe...all dressed out in buckskins (which looks like ultrasuede) wearing lavish headdresses of birds which probably never were. After their odd performance on Polish Radio, I speak with one of the real Americans: He can only speak Portuguese and one wonders if Vasco De got up the Missouri.

Everyone good natured. A lovely young woman stops me on the street (I am wearing a slicker Ellison gave me 20 years ago with SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE on it) to announce that she has applied to Sarah Lawrence, is Lithuanian and hopes that they will receive her in 2007!

Dinner tonight...the last splurge:

Amusement: A salmon carpaccio with dill...a vodka with a good Hevelius local beer...
First: Ecrevisse in a saffron sauce with little puff pastry doo-dahs
Main: A veal breast wrapped around feta, wild mushrooms and spinach (maybe
kale)
Dessert: Wild raspberries on a vanilla ice (not ice cream)with schlagobers and diced mint espresso and the obligatory Danziger Goldwasser (the latter makes me sneeze...I walk across the street to the Marina and sneeze for 20 minutes)

Poland is not what you think.

Fred

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