Ruth Barton wrote: > Hopefully it will not take any of us 2 years to make it back. > Twybil and I left Witold in Poland but the two of us are now both back in our home places. Will report more fully on the extraordinary adventure when I have an opportunity to recover. In Krakow Hotel Rubinstein in old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz was 5 star for 2 nights of our adventure -- it was retribution to my past indiscretion in comments on soap on BP (never again). Owner, architect, and conservator (15th c medieval elements retained in ambiance of luxury) were jailed for 100 days as the roof of the building was 20 cm in height over permit and judge wanted to make an example of them for what otherwise would have been a $400 fine. At end of day into night we had excellent time at table with owner and architect, publisher of the restoration publication that sponsored the conference, and other eminent conservators and quick friends. I asked the architect, who sat next to me, with Twybil on his other side, what the material was used for the roof. His gravely response to me, "I came here to drink." A large man, he very promptly fell asleep and leaned on my shoulder to a weight almost to force me out of my chair if I did not brace my legs to the floor with adhesion of cold vodka. I propped him up while our host on my other side animatedly discussed with me prospects to revive project to reconstruct annihilated 17th century wood and timber synagogue. Good fun was had by all in flood of Polish and spatters of English. It was certainly an exploration in the cultural intangibles of heritage conservation. ][<en -- Orgrease-Crankbait <http://orgrease-crankbait.blogspot.com/> Video, audio, writings, words, spoken word, dialogs, graphic collage and the art of fiction in language and literature. -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>