there were english power sockets in my polish hotel room. that saddened me as i wanted to feel proper foreign.
i say that, but during my few days in poland i managed to visit McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut and the London Steak restaurant. very blending in i was.
i went in search of genuine communist era Poland when i was in Warsaw. most of it is being rebuilt like it was hundreds of years ago, so finding something obviously from the last 50 years (other than the stuff which has been build in the last 10 years) is tricky.
these statues are by a square which was built to house political rallies. you can see the scale of them in the top picture (there’s a chap walking by). nowadays they are just ignored. they probably were back in the day too though !
i was in poland for this conference. here’s a classic techno-slide. i can’t get enough of these things.
actually, i can
according to the polish taxi driver who picked me up from heathrow to take me back home after my warsaw trip, people in Poland have their wedding photos on a different day to their actual wedding. As a result they are a lot more relaxed and can be more ‘set up’. He knew this as he was going back to Poland to get married (today in fact i think)
when i was in poland last week i got to explore Park Lazienkowski which was lovely
there were lots of people having their wedding photos which made for a great spectator sport.
you can see what this place looks like from the sky on google maps
even as i left there were more pouring in !
take care around yellow jackets
can anyone identify this red toadstalling mushroom thing ? we saw quite a few in scotland. also, which picture do you prefer ?
we also saw loads of these ones:
there is nothing cooperative about chocolate sponge sandwiches. in my experience it’s every man/woman/child for themselves
flowerdale is a walk from Gairloch harbour. more details here
these were the holiday cottages / bungalows that we stayed in whilst in scotland. excellently large with three bedrooms and three bathrooms ! their website even has a nice floor plan.
passing place being a place for passing being a place to die ? there are worse final views.
a chair with a telephone and glove and a dead mannequin. these are just some of things we saw on sticks in scotland
