(From Krakow): interesting questions asked by my fellow travelers

Is there a hierarchy of nun habits? Is blue higher up than brown? Than gray?

Why do horses rest on only three feet?

horses, horses... 

Wouldn’t I be a better tour guide than Marta over at the Jagiellonian University who does the “Copernicus” tour?

Why don’t we get a tattoo?

Answers to some of the above and to random other questions buzzing around:

Not old things are worth preserving:

holding it together...

Some old things are really worth preserving:

the castle courtyard 

I don’t know about being a tour guide, but I’d consider working as a gardener at the Wawel Castle, so long as I'd have a hoe like she does:

all it takes is a rake and a hoe.. 

Polish (folk) costumes for girls, on sale at the market, reminding me of the days when I owned one, wore one, felt proud in one:

at the market 

If the sun comes out suddenly, brilliantly, you think differently about desserts, about life, about tatoos:

sunshine, desserts, ideas. 

as Polish as apple pie... 

And the musicians played on: in this case, Vivaldi, the Four Seasons.

brisk, intircate, exquisite.