The group of people plundering the battlefield moved to another tent. The victory was enormous, and even few days after the battle, you were able to find hundreds of golden items, jewelry,turquoise gemstones, golden sabres, armors. But this time the plunderers had no luck. All they found were sacks with brown grain. - Useless food for camels - they said and moved
to another spot. They didn't see the hidden man watching them carefully from the shadow under a tree. He knew , that these sacks contained his future fortune, he would fight for death with those plunderers, luckily for them gone fast without any signs of interest in the load.
Well the name of the man was Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki , who once drank a cup of brown liquid, while he was an envoy of Polish king to the Great Vesir Kara Mustafa.
He loaded the stuff onto the horse truck and moved it into the centre of Vienna, where later that year he opened the first coffe shop in Austria.
As you can guess the brown, useless grain were prime quality coffe beans.
Last month the whole Krakow celebrated the famous victory, the 325th anniversary is not exactly the round one - but we love to celebrate, but not without a good reason.
We had turkish tents around the centre of the city, the historical banners hanging around the city, and the great parade - the tryumfal return of Polish King Jan III Sobieski ( played by popular actor Daniel Olbrychski) from Vienna to Kraków, to his beloved wife Marysieńka.
[on the photo - king Sobieski at the battlefield, gives the letter to the Pope's envoy announcing the victory]

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