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Post by valpomike on Jan 16, 2008 20:00:22 GMT -7
WHY?
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Post by Pawian on Jan 17, 2008 11:53:04 GMT -7
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Post by valpomike on Jan 17, 2008 13:45:31 GMT -7
Pawian,
If I am correct, and you don't like Warsaw, than why? Each big city has a bad side.
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Post by Pawian on Jan 17, 2008 14:34:18 GMT -7
Pawian, If I am correct, and you don't like Warsaw, than why? Each big city has a bad side. Michael Dabrowski ping - pong, ping- pong, ta-ble te-nnis. |
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Post by livia on Jan 18, 2008 12:42:15 GMT -7
Okey, so finally some views from my fav Polish city. And that will be it from my side for a while. I hope Pawian will fight his boredom and will present Kraków as well!! ;D ;D ;D Warszawa. Syrenka statue on the river bank. The Coat of Arms of Warszawa is Syrenka (river mermaid = melusina). .  . . . Notice Poland's highest military decoration for valor in the face of the enemy and Semper Invicta motto. .  . . . Most Śląsko-Dąbrowski ('Dąbrowski' stands for Dąbrowa Górnicza town, not for General Dąbrowski!) .  . . . Florence? No, ulica Bednarska! .  . . . Something sweet and nice for Pawian. Ulica Nowy Świat. .  .  .  . . . Ulica Świętokrzyska. Just life .  .  . . . Marszałkowska. Woooow!  .  . . . Ulica Chałubińskiego .  . . . The bar .  . . . Rynek Nowego Miasta. Great atmosphere always. .  .  . . . Ulica Freta. As above. .  . . . Plac Zbawiciela .  . . . The library .  . . . Mariensztat. Cosy and romantic all the year round. The crowd stays 100 m up. .  .  . . . Stare Miasto .  .  . . . The best cinema in the city .  . . . Weekly free outdoor concert of Chopin music .  . . . Ignacy Paderewski welcomes us in Park Ujazdowski .  .  . . . Warszawa americanized. Złote Tarasy. Some like it. .  . . . Warszawa americanized. Blue City. .  . . . The highest Christmas tree .  . . . Ulica Mokotowska. The first date street (blushhh) .  . . . Plac Bankowy. The favourite poet .  . . . Ulica Kozia .  . . . Powiśle quater. Fresh breeze from the river. Slow life. .  .  . . . That' all folks!! . .. ... Let us remember ..... Sursum Corda! .  . . . And make love not war  . . .  |
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Post by Pawian on Jan 18, 2008 13:43:51 GMT -7
Good views. However, you forgot to add quotation marks for best. Someone might really think it is the best cinema. The best cinema in the city |
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Post by pieter on Jan 18, 2008 13:47:29 GMT -7
Livia,
Very nice photographs of Warszawa, I remember the city I visited in august 2006 from it!
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Post by Pawian on Jan 18, 2008 14:17:52 GMT -7
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Post by livia on Jan 18, 2008 14:23:12 GMT -7
Livia, Very nice photographs of Warszawa, I remember the city I visited in august 2006 from it! Pieter Oh great! Did you have a chance to do some off-the-beaten track tourism? |
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Post by livia on Jan 18, 2008 14:24:36 GMT -7
I hope Pawian will fight his boredom and will present Kraków as well!! ;D ;D ;D No, I won`t. Kraków is an ordinary Polish city (says a self-hating Cracovian). I see. You simply want me to do it for you.? ;D ;D ;D And now you've begun to tease me with the mountains while I have to sit here and write for my future!!! Bad boy! I did noticethe change of topic name. I will look what I can do |
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Post by Pawian on Jan 18, 2008 14:26:33 GMT -7
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Post by Pawian on Jan 18, 2008 14:39:07 GMT -7
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Post by Pawian on Jan 18, 2008 14:43:19 GMT -7
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Post by livia on Jan 18, 2008 16:30:31 GMT -7
Very nice pics of the old Polish mountains ;D ;D ;D I watched them with pleasure and I am already planning a trip to Karkonosze. In the meantime since Pawian is so shy, I will present some pics from Kraków. Very non objective. Just the way I remember it Kraków.  Sukiennice in Rynek Główny.     Krakowianka jedna  Saint Wojciech Church   Planty. A ring-shaped park around the oldest parr of the city   Early snow  April the 2nd. John Paul's II death anniversary  The window of John Paul's II apartment while in Kraków. From there he spoke, joked, sung... loved the mankind.  The spring  Constitution Day (May the 3rd)  Kopiec Kościuszki. A hill built by the Cracovians with soil brought in their hands to commemorate Tadeusz Kościuszko.  The lights  The theater  Kazimierz. Best kosher food outside Israel  Pawian the tuitor? Bald, isn't he?  Cracovians love all kinds of annivesaries even more than the Varsovians...  They have great cafes,theater, museums every 10 meters, yet for unknown reasons they don't sit there all the time  ...even if every time they try they are shown they are not the best in sports  probably they party too much  Homo Cracoviensis  Easy, easy, I have to cool down, I will find my sandwich first. Maybe she doesn't like me? OMG, does he think I will wait for him to speak up forever??  Kraków is a truly metaphysical city   |
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Post by pieter on Jan 18, 2008 16:37:15 GMT -7
Livia, Very nice photographs of Warszawa, I remember the city I visited in august 2006 from it! Pieter Oh great! Did you have a chance to do some off-the-beaten track tourism? Livia, I tried, I was staying in the appartment of a Polish ambassador in an African country, whose wife was a friend of my mothers when she worked in Warsaw in the fiftees and sixtees. I was there for five days and walked around the city, trying to avoid Tourist places, and see also urban developments, new architecture, Polish Modern art, New architecture, and the organic connection between old and new stiles that merged into one city infrastructure and construction of buildings, boulevards, streets, allees, parks, squares, Central train station, tram tracks, city traffic. Fortunately I was driven around by this kind lady, and saw the old neighbourhood and street where my grandparents lived, Mokotow, and saw new construction sites, the vibrant city, and walked and walked for days, in the sun and during pouring rain that turned the streets into rivers. Maybe I enjoyed the view from the Palace of culture most of all, but I also liked seeing the National Museum, the Army Museum, the Palace at the outskirts of the town following the Royal way. I liked walking trough endless, grey neighbourhoods with large streets filled with old trees, old and new cars and grafitti on the walls. I remember walking on a dark rainy thursday past Pawiak museum (which was closed unfortunately) and being lost in such a large depressing neighbourhood, think that I was walking to the Old town. I regret one thing, and that is that I did not cross the river to have a look in the Praga neighbourhood. I did the same thing in Prague and Budapest, making endless walks through peoples neighbourhoods, city centres and along rivers. The best thing is ofcourse to get lost at night and to dwell to a scary strange city and getting the atmosphere of a novel. I mean the smell of the past, the wispers, footsteps, rumors, voices of the past, feeling the state bureaucracies, the dissident movements, the secret police pressence, the layers of history in a Modern, Central European Metropole. I wonder how Warsaw will be in 50 years time when the old town of sixty years will be more than 100 years old, and the new buildings of today will be part of the histpory of the first half of the 20th century, we are looking back at. jagahost.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=imagespoland&action=display&thread=1153768041&page=2Pieter |
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No, it`s the mountain hotel on Mount Śnieżka. Built in communists times. Simlply incredible! Instead of boring socialist architects of flats of blocks, they must have hired alien ones for this hotel.
