It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
This Serene Autumnal Picture is of the walk down the wide and pleasant ul. Namysłowska, on my way south towards Plac Hallera and a busier area of Praga, my neighborhood on the east side of the Vistula.
(I’m writing this post from the kitchen of the Cinnamon Hotel, my Wroclaw home-away-from-Warsaw of choice–and catching up on blogging from a week of travel. Two days in Lublin, one in Lodz, and now three in Wroclaw to come.)
This narrative begins on Tuesday, 10/25, with a sentimental photo-shoot of the Praga neighborhood. The morning of my trip to Lublin, I finally made it to the post office at Plac Hallera to pick up a package (my parents sent me a biography of Henry James!) and on the way there and back, I thought I would document the neighborhood. I also took some pictures of the Praga-area Warsaw Uprising memorial. Photo gallery follows–you can click on one and enlarge to go through them as a slideshow.
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- It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…
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- Foliage, I say! Foliage!
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- The Praga-area Warsaw Uprising memorial, also on ul. Namysłowska.
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- Many Warsaw memorials have open squares to themselves–this one is just in front of an apartment building. I like that about it.
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- There are many enormous trees in Praga.
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- A closer view of the memorial.
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- Some women at a bus stop on ul. Namysłowska. I’m getting better at taking surreptitious pictures.
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- Yellow, yellow, yellow leaves.
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- Namysłowska on the return walk home–one of the many weeping willows in Warsaw ahead on the right.
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- If I wait here long enough, the #1 or the #28 tram will take me to the Dworzec Gdański metro, which will take me to the Centrum metro, from where I can walk to Dworzec Centralna, from where I can board the train…to Lublin!
Dara Weinberg 