Polia z bielej vody

Polly letela na juh pozdĺž pobrežia. Pri malej rieke bola zem rovná. Pri mori boli stovky plytkých bazénov. Každý bazén sa leskol ako zrkadlo. To sú soliny v Sečovlje. Ľudia tu robia soľ už viac ako sedemsto rokov.

Polly flew south along the coast. By a small river, the land was flat. There were hundreds of shallow pools by the sea. Each pool shone like a mirror. These are the salt pans of Sečovlje. People have made salt here for more than seven hundred years.

Morská voda tečie do bazénov. Celé leto berie slnko vodu preč. Soľ zostane. Polly vošla do bazéna. Voda bola teplá a slaná.

Sea water comes into the pools. All summer the sun takes the water away. The salt stays. Polly walked into a pool. The water was warm and salty.

Solinári ťahali vodou dlhé drevené hrable. Biela soľ robila malé kôpky. Pracujú rukami, ako kedysi.

The salt workers pushed long wooden rakes through the water. The white salt made small hills. They work by hand, like long ago.

Jeden solinár jej ukázal dno bazéna. Bolo tmavé a hladké ako koža. Drží bahno dole, a tak soľ zostáva biela.

A worker showed her the floor of the pool. It was dark and smooth, like skin. It keeps the mud down, so the salt stays white.