{"id":1339,"date":"2021-10-11T17:24:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:18:50","slug":"my-adorable-polish-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/my-adorable-polish-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"MY ADORABLE POLISH FRIEND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am sure that to most of you, unless you are Polish, the name Zbigniew Bednarczyk is not ringing any bells. But if I say Mr Brog or Zibi, for friends, you will be immediately reminded of a handsome man with handlebar moustache, bowler hat on his head and a kilt instead of trousers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Brog\u2019s \u201cPracownia Fajek is, maybe, the most important pipe factory throughout Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can read on his website, the company was born in 1947 when master Wiktor Winiarski and Zbigniew Winiarski came up with the idea of starting a pipe factory called \u201cBESKID wooden accessories and plastic products\u201d. Between 1992 and 1995 the factory becomes Mr Brog, with over 2 million pipes sold all over the world so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the classic heather briar pipes, Mr Brog also produces acacia-wood, cherry-wood, pear-wood, oak-wood, morta and rosewood pipes, something both rare and unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zibi is also known for the pipe fest he organises every year in his town, Przemysl, a marvellous small city a few kilometres from the Ukraine border, and for the other thousand activities no one else would be able to manage having only 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I met Zibi many years ago at Dortmund\u2019s Fair. Since then, we met there every year until Zibi, in February 2020, made me an amazing present: he came to Palermo with his wonderful wife Anna to celebrate his birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some pictures of our fantastic reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-id=\"1340\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/IMG_2488.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1340\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-id=\"1341\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/IMG_2493.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1341\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-id=\"1342\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/IMG_2502-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1342\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-id=\"1344\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/IMG_6142.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1344\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-id=\"1343\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/IMG_6137.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1343\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-id=\"1345\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/IMG_6146.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1345\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that to most of you, unless you are Polish, the name Zbigniew Bednarczyk is not ringing any bells. But if I say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152],"tags":[33,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}