Our picture provides a clue. We're sitting above his crest which is now displayed at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow to commemorate his time there as a student of philosophy.
In case the penny hasn't dropped we'll make it even easier.
Here you see us doing what many thousands of people have done before us. We're sitting outside the rooms, from which he used to work when he was Archbishop of Krakow, looking at a painting of him. You may need to enlarge our picture to see it clearly, but if you do you will see we are looking at a picture of Karol Wojtyla, more commonly known as Pope John Paul II.
To the Poles he was, and still is, a hero, and we can certainly vouch for the fact that you can't travel very far in Krakow without encountering a statue, or some other memorial to him. Even so, we were stil amazed to hear from Jakub, our guide, that after his death this road was closed for several months due to all the floral offerings that were left there. We thought it must have been similar response to that of the British nation after the death of Princess Diana.
We can hardly think of two more different people!
Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx
1 comment:
A similar response but much more deserved don't you think bears?
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