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Subject: Re: dyngus day

Date: Mon 31/03/08 17:51:52 GMT

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What news reports did you expect with snow on the ground. it's worth checking Warsaw for instance on weather.com before even trying. Easter can be cold here and this one was a record since I think the 1970s.

We had nothing to record this year.

As for the de-centalized events, well these traditions are getting less and less popular. The climate has changed here. Summers have become very hot and winters rarely see much snow, but not every time of the year has seen warming. Spring time has had some very unusual cold waves lately, and dyngus in such weather is really no fun. Not only with -1 to 2 celsius, like this year, but also 6 - 7 celsius and rain, like last. Most TV material are archives from the nineties, when we had some dynguses with temperaturs like 24C. Anyway, nowadays with such weather most people don't like the tradition and call the cops.

As for generating tourist dollars, Poland doesn't do that well. We generally don't promote the country (like many in our region) and it's attractions. This has changed a bit lately, with for instance Krakow getting on to the main tourist map, but that's only lately and in that time dynguses were poor. And anyway, holidays are not a good time to visit. On easter everything is closed, except a few bars and restaurants and maybe some cinemas (though many of these are in shopping malls that are closed by law on easter and can't open) and Poles spend time with there family, so it's just plain boring to come here at that time. And anyway, to top it off, airports are in total mayhem and completely blocked around easter (and christmas) as Poles working outside the country come back home to the families and also many young and less traditional Poles go the other way around to storm the Alps, Tunisia or the Canary Islands. So generally this wouldn't work IMHO.

Mike.

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Re: dyngus day

By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Mon 31/03/08 14:09:59 GMT

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It happened last monday (dyngus day is always Easter Monday), and I set my vcr to record the Polish tv channels on my dish system but they only showed about 10 seconds of water throwing clips on the tv news reports, and nothing of any substanc worth saving.

I was hoping the wet fans in Poland would be able to record better scenes from their Polish tv channels, cos we only get 2 Polish channels in my region in Florida.

The problem with Dyngus Day celebrations are that they are totally de-centralized, and disorganized. By that I mean, with the water throwing festivals in Spain, China, Burma, Cambodia, Panama, Ecuador and Thailand -- those are all "centralized" and "organized" ..i.e. you know exactly where to go to see stuff happening, cos those events are specifically organized to occur in centralized locations...so you know where to go to capture things. With the water throwing festivals in Poland and Hungary, those are completely "random" events that can happen spontaneously in any part of the city or rural areas, so you have no chance to see events, unless you happen to be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.

If the local authorities in Poland were smart, they could generate millions in tourist dollars, if they just created a centralized location for these celebrations...e.g. like a county fairground or something. This is what they have done in Spain and Korea and Thailand and Panama -- they have turned sleepy little towns that had no tourist industry at all....into megabucks tourist attractions that get 100,000 visitors each year, by exploiting their festivals so that many foreign tourists come to see them.

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By uwe - Mon 31/03/08 12:42:29 GMT

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A nice dyngus-day link I found:

http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/51,53600,4046488.html?i=0

How about this years pics????

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