Does the melancholic Masuria of Siegfried Lenz exist?
Wo the culture ends, that’s where the Masur begins.” What used to be an insulting rhyme now fills the traveler with romantic expectations – which are immediately disappointed: the guesthouse Habenda in the village of Krutyń, which our Polish acquaintance recommended, is like that not Masurian at all. It could just as well be in […]
A journey down memory lane
Wo the culture ends, that’s where the Masur begins.” What used to be an insulting rhyme now fills the traveler with romantic expectations – which are immediately disappointed: the guesthouse Habenda in the village of Krutyń, which our Polish acquaintance recommended, is like that not Masurian at all. It could just as well be in […]