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Post by ChrisB on Feb 8, 2015 23:30:31 GMT
We took a few days out to nip over to Warsaw to have a bit of a break and a poke around in a new city. Not the usual choice for a winter break, admittedly, but thoroughly enjoyable. We like to take photos of architecture, so probably a bit boring for most folks but maybe someone will enjoy a few snaps of some of what we saw. Musically themed, we stopped by at Fred's house...   We also saw his bridge!  The Palace of Culture - a gift from Stalin to the people of Warsaw (who hate it!)   There's a viewing gallery on the 30th floor, a good spot to see the panoramas of the city and also to take a peek at some of the newer buildings that are now competing in the skyline. The hotel design on the right was going to block out some light and the neighbouring residents complained, so they just cut a hole in it!   That's enough for now, I've been up since 4 o'clock this morning! I'll put some more stuff up tomorrow if anyone's interested. |
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Post by Tim on Feb 9, 2015 0:57:48 GMT
Awwwww, go on then 
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Post by John on Feb 9, 2015 5:02:26 GMT
Thanks for sharing Chris
What was the music scene like
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Post by brian2957 on Feb 9, 2015 8:53:18 GMT
Nice photos Chries . We will be been looking for a European city break this year and this looks like a contender . I moch prefer photos taken by real people than those taken by marketing people and placed into glossy brochures.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 9, 2015 8:55:45 GMT
Looks more interesting than my stereotype view thought
Guess the Cold War is long gone now with the expected grim greyness
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Post by ChrisB on Feb 9, 2015 9:03:20 GMT
We didn't have much luck with the music scene John - there was a band performing in a cellar near our flat one night, but we couldn't work out how to get in! There was a jazz club nearby too, but nothing was going on there (doors were always locked) any time we were nearby and there were no posters. All very secretive!
I also failed to find any record shops.
All of this is very different to our experience in Krakow a year ago, but I think we were just looking in the wrong places.
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Post by Tim on Feb 9, 2015 11:25:59 GMT
All of this is very different to our experience in Krakow a year ago, but I think we were just looking in the wrong places. There was music everywhere when I went to Krakow Chris, I get the feeling that culturally Krakow is ahead of Warsaw and you are not the first person to find this either. Maybe its just too big compared to Krakow, so harder to find? |
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Post by John on Feb 9, 2015 14:29:42 GMT
I remember reading somewhere that Warsaw has a good Jam scene. That was a few years ago so might of changed
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Post by ChrisB on Feb 9, 2015 23:28:34 GMT
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Post by Tim on Feb 10, 2015 9:25:18 GMT
Love those old radios, that red poster with girl and valve is cool too |
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Post by ChrisB on Feb 12, 2015 0:10:15 GMT
The following photo of an enormous and massive maroon-ish Christmas decoration will only be of significance to aficionados of Frankie Zappa.... Ich bin hier,
Und du bist mein Sofa! |
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 27, 2018 15:42:35 GMT
All of this is very different to our experience in Krakow a year ago, but I think we were just looking in the wrong places. There was music everywhere when I went to Krakow Chris, I get the feeling that culturally Krakow is ahead of Warsaw and you are not the first person to find this either. Maybe its just too big compared to Krakow, so harder to find? I remember Krakow being stuffed to the brim with beautiful women. And also, Krakow was a unique sight for me at the time because there were areas that looked like a huge open walking plaza with buildings around the perimeter. Stores, inns, restaurants. One thing I remember from my time there in 2003 was being at a large bus station and a voice over a loud speaker warni g the crowd of people waiting for buses that there were pickpockets within the crowd. What I liked about Warsaw was that at some point you enter in Old Warsaw. There is a section of the city that is much older looking than the rest. Quite nice to see. |
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 27, 2018 17:19:09 GMT
Yes there are two distinct sections to the Old City. We had a really nice, huge and extremely cheap flat there which was hidden inside a scruffy looking frontage.
I see the images from this thread were lost in the Great Photobucket Purge. I still have them, so I'll stick 'em back up shortly.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 27, 2018 20:47:04 GMT
Wow sounds great about scoring that killer flat in Old Warsaw.
It still amazes me the kind of deals that can be found out there. My dad's friends owned a flat of.some kind right in downtown krakow near all the bars.
My uncle owns a flat in Vantaa, a small but t very cool.little town 10 minutes by bus from Helsinki.
I went there and stayed a month with him. Pristine suburbs and city. Vantaa had large high rise apartment structures all surrounded by woods. Each structure had a large sauna area.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 27, 2018 23:01:34 GMT
We stayed at a rather nice hotel in Warsaw (The Westin), right on a junction offering trams in every direction and one block from the Metro. I loved the city: big friendly and with the aforementioned beautiful women. We found a Greek restaurant (The El Greco) that became a favourite because of the quality of the food and the ambience. The old city was a great walking experience, too. Lovely place, would go back there in a flash.
The same could not be said for their airline, Lot.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 28, 2018 0:01:44 GMT
Haha, Lot. Yup. Bummer food there.
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Post by Tim on Jul 28, 2018 7:38:25 GMT
I remember Krakow being stuffed to the brim with beautiful women. I remember that too and that's all I'm saying |
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 28, 2018 21:38:45 GMT
Absolutely Tim. I went to a ski resort/summer vacation town in the Tatras mountain region in Poland. The town is called Zakopane. The women there were even more abundant, ludicrous. Difficult to even go about ones business without distraction lol. I was 23 at the time so it really fit my agenda lol. Some unique incredible restaurants in Zakopane too. I believe the word Zakopane (zah-co-pah-nih)means either "buried" or "unearthed".Google shoes it mean to bury or entomb but I've always heard relatives use it to mean buried. We visited another town I'm not sure the name of in which we visited and underground palace excavated from a salt mine. The staircases and walls and floors were of salt. Then we entered a large ballroom carved out of the salt. Statues of hard salt every where. Really interesting. ChrisB yes man please reupload if you can the photos in the thread. |
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