Monday, April 1, 2013

Easter Monday or 'Snowy Monday' :) // Lany Poniedziałek! albo 'Śnieżny Poniedziałek' :)

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Amigus-Dyngus

Easter Monday is called 'Wet Monday' in Poland. People are allowed to sprinkle one another with water. It is supposed to bring luck and 'cleanse them from the dirt and sins'.

Read more about Wet Monday on wikipedia:

Unfortunately, this year's Wet Monday is more snowy than the Christmas before! Last night we had a blizzard which brought great amount of snow. See for yourselves:

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W Polsce Poniedziałek Wielkanocny  zwany jest oczywiście 'Lanym Poniedziałkiem'. Tego dnia można się wzajemnie oblewać wodą, ma to przynieść szczęście i 'oczyścić nas z brudu i grzechów.'

Więcej informacji na wikipedii:

Niestety, w tegoroczny Lany Poniedziałek spadło więcej śniegu niż w ostatnie święta Bożego Narodzenia! W nocy przeszła przez Polskę śnieżyca, która zostawiła nam naprawdę mnóstwo śniegu. Zobaczcie sami:


9 comments:

  1. Happy easter to you...still frozen looks like..:)

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  2. U nas padało już wczoraj cały dzień. Miłych i nie mokrych od Dyngusa Świąt. Pozdrawiam.

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  3. Happy Easter to you too - I guess even with snow you got wet!

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  4. Hope you had a lovely Easter. Does throwing snowballs count as sprinkling water, given the weather? :)

    And here I have been complaining that the weather is a bit too cold to harden off my seedlings. We have escaped the snow over the last few weeks thankfully. Hope it warms up for you soon!

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  5. Hi Dewberry,

    Happy Easter, though the weather seem to not be on your side!

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  6. I never heard of wet monday! What a fun tradition! That certainly is a lot of snow. It looks quite heavy on the boughs of the trees.

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  7. Oh my goodness, that's not very wet at all. I guess it will be when it all melts. Sounds like a fun tradition. It's fun to learn about these things. Thank you for visiting my blog. :-)

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