We have an uneventful trip to Katowice, some three hours away from Zakopane.
We decide to drop the 'van off at the campsite there and head to the Jasna Gora Monastery, at Czestochowa, to see, amongst other things, the famous Black Madonna. All the info is in the link.
The monastery attracts thousands of pilgrims each year and Poland's Pope John Paul addressed the massed faithful from the balcony here. We see the Black Madonna and the crowds attending mass in the chapel in which it hangs.
The Monastery
The Madonna
In the chapel
View from the tower
Back to earth.....
On the way back we pop into the local IKEA to try to find a new griddle pan - but what we really wanted were the meatballs for dinner....
....the Tata Mountains seem a long way away somehow.
We decide to drop the 'van off at the campsite there and head to the Jasna Gora Monastery, at Czestochowa, to see, amongst other things, the famous Black Madonna. All the info is in the link.
The monastery attracts thousands of pilgrims each year and Poland's Pope John Paul addressed the massed faithful from the balcony here. We see the Black Madonna and the crowds attending mass in the chapel in which it hangs.
The Monastery
The Madonna
In the chapel
View from the tower
Back to earth.....
On the way back we pop into the local IKEA to try to find a new griddle pan - but what we really wanted were the meatballs for dinner....
....the Tata Mountains seem a long way away somehow.
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