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Post by pieter on Jul 24, 2006 12:07:21 GMT -7
Dear people of the Forum,
I am thinking about travelling to Warsaw in the last week of august. I will book a flight from Amsterdam to Warsaw. My mother has relatives and friends in Warsaw, and I might stay at the appartments of family or friends there. My mother will help me on some basic Polish before I go. What my question to you people is: Poles, Americans, Europeans, what is your experiance with new Warsaw. What should I see, what are architectural wonders, what are the exiting spots, what are the Museums I should have seen? It was 1984 when I was there for the last time (I was 14 then). Could you share your travel experiance with me?
Pieter
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Post by jimpres on Jul 24, 2006 12:17:35 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 24, 2006 14:21:43 GMT -7
Thank you very much Jim!
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Post by nancy on Jul 26, 2006 20:51:40 GMT -7
Pieter,
please let us know your impression of the "Palace of Culture and Science"
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Post by pieter on Aug 2, 2006 8:38:01 GMT -7
There was a slight change in plans, and that's why I will be flying to Warsaw from Dortmund airport with Wizz air, a Polish-Hungarian low budget airlines. A friend of my mother, who has an appartment where I can stay. She knows English well, because her husbant is a diplomat and so she has lived in various African countries, and so it will be easy for me to communicate with her. I will take little luggage with me, a small camera and a drawing book with Staedtler pigment liners. I hope that I manage to maken some drawings and good photographs there. It is really exiting for me, because I have no idea how present day Warsaw will look like. On photographs I saw many new sky skrapers, buildings and International hotels. It is a real Western Metropole now, a business and trade centre, cultural focus point and a gateway between East- and West. I am especially curious about the new developements in architecture, city development, art- and culture infrastructure (galeries, museums, art centres and etc.), and the state of Polish contemporary art. Ofcourse I am also interested in historical sights, the palaces, the old art and the Polish people overhtere. I hope that some of them speak English, German or a little bit french. I will take my Polish travel language guide with me. I will stay in Warsaw from friday/saturday until wednesday.
Pieter
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Post by pieter on Aug 9, 2006 11:07:33 GMT -7
Dear people,
I am in Warsaw right now at the place of an old friend of my mother, and I stayed here the last days. I flew to Warsaw by KLM (Dutch airlines) on saturday morning and was picked up from Warsaw airport by my mothers friend. She is a very kind lady, and I am very glad that I can stay at her place. I have enjoyed myself very much in Warsaw, visiting the old town, Muzeum Narodowy, the Polish army museum, Modern art galleries, the Palace of culture, Wilanow palace, Lazienki park, Citadel and I saw the uprising Museum. 1984 was the last time that I was in Warsaw, and Warsaw really changed a lot, with all the skyskrapers, Modern hotels, new infra structure and renovations of old buildings. I will write more when I am back in the Netherlands. Tomorrow I will fly back to Amsterdam in the afternoon.
Greetings, Pieter
Ulica Gornoslaska Near Srodmiescie and Most Lazienkowski Warszawa
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Post by leslie on Aug 9, 2006 13:47:27 GMT -7
Pieter When I was in Warszawa in May this year working, I had an afternoon free so with a friend I spent the afternoon in and around the old town. I have some photos on Webshots in two albums on page 2 of my albums (one only if you are not interested in old Polish locomotives in the Train Museum). If you want to see the shots I took, go to community.webshots.com/user/ellray100I hope you enjoyed your visit to Warszawa - there is more of interest to see there than one imagines, particularly if you can be guided by someone who knows what happened during the Uprising and during the years after the war when Poland was under communist rule. Look forward to hearing your account and seeing any photos you obtained. Leslie
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 9, 2006 16:31:47 GMT -7
Pieter also great tips are at www.virtualtourist.com Just look for destinations and also there is a forum that you can leave a question and get great tips from the travelers. If you go check out my homepage...just do member search instead of destination. I think you will like it the site that is.
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Post by pieter on Aug 11, 2006 5:16:59 GMT -7
Leslie/Rdywenur,
Thank you for your replies and information, I am back in Arnhem, and have make a selection of the many images. This weekend I am going to my parents place in the South-east, to tell them about Warsaw, and give them some presents from Poland. I am looking forward to see my parents.
Pieter
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Post by bescheid on Aug 11, 2006 9:32:00 GMT -7
Pieter Welcome back It is good to hear/read of your many good fortunes and experiences whilst in Poland. For many, it is always good to be home even though the travel was good. I will imagine your mother will be happy and looking forward to your many visits of relatives. I have a fairly good idea your parents were concerned for your safety and similarly happy for your travels and safe return to them, as most parents are. I will be looking forward to hearing of your many experiences. Charles
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Post by pieter on Aug 17, 2006 2:11:27 GMT -7
Charles, Thanks for your sympathetic reply, I stayed a couple of days longer in my parents place in the lovely South-Eastern Island region of the Dutch province Zeeland (Sealand), where the landscape keeps improving, and there is a lot of farmland, horses, cows and sheep. On the lovely Peninsula, where my parents live in the Costal Naval, Commercial and Fishing town of Vlissingen, which lives from Tourism mostly (the region depends on German tourists who come for the sea, rest and recreation. Zimmer Frei is the most read sign on houses and hotels. Many Germans have holiday houses there. Besides that ofcourse many Dutch and Belgian tourists come there too, in masses). In Walcheren the Peninsula of my parents there are two beautiful old towns, which played a role for the Dutch East Indies Companie, Middelburg and Veere. Ofcourse for the greatest attraction for me there is the coast, sea and Veerse lake, because as a kid I loved to swim, row and windsurf. I lived for 20 years on that Peninsula. www.hupe-holiday.com/duits/fotos.htmcommunity.webshots.com/album/71393437ncwGbIwww.travel-images.com/netherlands12.htmlwww.pbase.com/nh/middelburgwww.linternaute.com/voyage/pays-bas/domburg/photo/37094/brise-lames/And some history (Walcheren was part of the Atlantic wall): www.xs4all.nl/~pcvdklis/zonnehove/archief'44/archief'44-'45.htm Tuesday afternoon and evening we went to the Harbour city of Antwerp in the neigbouring Flanders (Belgium) in the South. It is always good to be there again. Had a good dinner in a very old, very nice restaurant in an old neigbourhood next to the Cathedral which is built in the Flemish Gothic stile. travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-191501718-action-pictures-antwerp_vacations-iwww.jack-travel.com/Belgium/Html/antwerp_promenadeCathedraleOLV.htmBack to Warsaw, it was an intense week because of the lots of history I got to process, the heritage of the past, and the many monuments, museums, and the huge differance between old and new. Pieter
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 17, 2006 4:43:34 GMT -7
Pieter...thanks for sharing the links. Great photos and since it is impossible to see all in the world this is the next best thing. You are very lucky to have lived in such a beautiful town. Also good to revisit home and all its memories and flavors.
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Post by pieter on Aug 17, 2006 14:34:28 GMT -7
rdywenur, your welcome!
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Post by bescheid on Aug 17, 2006 19:33:36 GMT -7
pieter
Add my thanks to that also of Chris {RDY}. You do live in a wonderful country. It would only seem, that the low lands and the sea, have always the holding charm on a person. The power of the sea, on a person is simular to its hold on the land, it is relentless and never forgets.
Charles
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Post by pieter on Aug 18, 2006 13:00:01 GMT -7
Dear people,
The thing I am stuck with is that I don't know how to get my photographs from my computer (I-photo or photoshop) to this Forum. How do you do that folks. I would like to post some of my Warsaw, Zeeland and Antwerp (Belgian) images.
Pieter
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