(I successfully located the Wrocław DHL office and sent off the papers I’d been working on–so I have some time to get back to pictures from last week.)
Stardate: last czwartek, 27 października. Befuddled Expat’s Log. Upon returning from Lublin (small town) I really enjoyed seeing Warsaw (larger town) as a comparatively busy, bustling place. Like stepping from a dim room into a bright one. Look at all these people heading down to the Centrum metro station! So many people! Maybe not that many compared to New York, but more than anywhere in Lublin…
The apparition of these faces in the crowd...
I used the opportunity to take some pictures of the massive Dworzec Centralna, or Warsaw central train station, and the surrounding open squares. This area is right next to the Kinoteka, to the PKN, the Złote Tarasy mall, etc, and it has a wide-open feeling that reminds me of Berlin Alexanderplatz.
I’m in a cafe right now in Wro. and the uploader’s slow, so I’ll put those images up later…
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- Dworzec Centralna, looming at the end of a walkway of what I can tell you, from sad experience, are extremely irregular cobblestones.
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- I AM THE TRAIN STATION
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- AND I, THE MALL
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- Trees in front of one side of the Kinoteka and the Pałac Kultury i Nauki. Did you know the PKN is the tallest building in Poland? Neither did I.
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- Another train station, less than 100m away from the first one…
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- and the cobblestone pathway in the other direction, heading back to the Centrum metro station. (There is no underground connection between the metro and the train stations.)
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- More Varsovians en route to the metro.
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- And we descend. Now make sure to go in the right one of those domed entrance things! One goes up, to Młociny, and the other down, to Kabaty…
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- Waiting for the subway. Note the in-station stores–there’s a guitar shop above and across the way in this picture.
It’s a nice place to return to, the PKN/Kinoteka/Centrum metro area, every time I come back to Warsaw.
Dara Weinberg 