christmas in poland

eat, drink, sleep, eat, drink, sleep, eat, drink, ... 😄

when visiting family in poland, you have to eat a lot, especially at xmas, my dears :-)

the nicest shopping center in the world i have ever seen = manufaktura / manufa (more pictures). this time we decided to meet friends in its beer drinking temple with own brewery, the bavarian style pub bierhalle

the best of all wives

small sweet santa (more santa pictures)

any additional insights? yep, poland is not the cheap cheap country it used to be, many prices are very similar to prices we have in germany. we have been just 1 week here this time, so i couldn't see much economic change or much improvement since our last visit, but lets mention one very important issue to us: finally there is a new autobahn around the city of wroclaw, it always has been a nightmare to move forward through the old city roads paved with cobbles ... at least one positive and lasting impact of the european soccer championship which took place in poland and ukraine this summer ;-)

anyway, the shops + pubs + restaurants are full of people buying stuff, eating + drinking + laughing, the cinema we have been was almost empty .... let's hope the polish economy will develop fine and so will my recent polish investment, the copper + silver producer KGHM 

santa santa ... merry xmas, dear friends :-)

friends, i have been fighting all the year for peace, freedom, democracy and thus against the system i.e. against the current paper money mafia, against the undustrial-military-complex, against the corrupt politics and the like .... well, there should be also some joy in life, isnt it? so let's enjoy your xmas and let's hope these santas will improve your mood 

source: here

or do you better like this santa?

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or this one? at least the gifts seem to be interesting 😄

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me + next santa ~ so small, so sweet 😍

so wise, so true, so important 😍

if your santa didn't show up, maybe that could be the reason ...

(source: larry wright, december 24, 2009)

similar 'unemployment' message in german, but not my favorite view.

lets collect interesting xmass cartoons here anyway ...

nicolaus / santa day (06.12.) rainy => winter very hard => TRUE?

xmas + BMW

lets go woke, the female santa claus 😁

artist emi boz sees xmas a little bit different, doesnt she?

arts by emi boz

xmas in japan? hmmmm ... 

you now what? why don't you look for yur own santa? just ask google

picture source

ok, i'll try to pre-select the query for you, enjoy and yes, after the result list opens, just chose picture menu ...

mr. market likes me + my stocks; merry xmas :)

i had to remove the original picture due to google ad sense policies, so here is just the link to it: here

why? just look at my top 3 positions yesterday:

• scorpio mining +4.84%
• novagold +15.24% on a news message, which IMO is not soooo bombastic (NovaGold Resources Inc. (NG) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase a 100% interest in the Ambler property in northern Alaska, which hosts the high-grade copper-zinc-gold-silver Arctic deposit.). well, novagold is my new #1
• u.s. gold +11.30% no news, my guess? i think the folks out there recognized that u.s. gold is not 100% the same as GOLD itself and therefore there is no need to 'send' us gold from $3.47 a share to $2.25 a share only because gold went from $1,200 to $1,100 => ??? => any other opinion out there?

of course, on a day when the top dogs perform like crazy, my portfolio reached a new all-time-high :-)

thx for this nice xmas gift, mr. market, thx!

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ohhh, just found a 2nd santa on the internet, which one do you like better? folks, i'm not sure, but could this santa and that pretty google's search it for me girl be the same person from flesh&blood? hmmmmm, i don't know

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why santa didn't show up ...

(Source: Larry Wright, December 24, 2009)

addendum, monday, december 28, 2009: crazy, crazy, craaaaazy!

folks, i'm such a lucky alien! mr. market read my blog on the weekend, he liked my 3 santas like hell aaaaaand today there is both, ALL-TIME-HIGH in my undiversified investment account (gold, silver, commodities, energy) and ALL-TIME-HIGH in my commodities CFD account, which is, of course, also undiversified. thx, santa! thx, mr. market! thx

hell, hell, hell!!! it is the inflationary hard assets rally out there, isn't it?

ps: commodities? commodities! just look at my CFD-trading positions:

• natural gas +5.49% (my biggest position)
• silver +0.87% (my 2nd biggest position)
• corn +2.21%
• wheat +3.58%
• coffee -4.22% (my smallest position)
• orange juice +2.03%