Travel to Poland....

Again and again....

Warsaw can be very busy.

In the middle of nothing, a little bit away of the center.

Two pitures, taken from the same point but different directions.

Works go on, during night and day.

Snow, public lights....

One of the modern symbols of Warsaw, in the Culture Palace, in the middle of Warsaw, not far from the central train station.

The Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki, PKiN) in Warsaw is a controversial gift from the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to the people of Warsaw in Poland, which, at the time (the 1950s), was a satellite state of the USSR. It is a huge concrete Socialist-Realist skyscraper adjacent to Warsaw Central Station, which has a unique beauty of its own, and this ambivalence is reflected in the attitude of the native Varsovians to the building which is the subject of a love-hate relationship. Thanks to its abbreviated name PKiN it is commonly referred to as either Pekin (Peking in Polish) or Pajac (Puppet, name coined after the word Pałac meaning Palace).

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A rapid view of Poznan, from the train.

Poznan and Gniezno (50 km away) were the first Polish capitals. Both cities are connected by the tourist trail known as the Piast Route, along which we can bear witness to the distant past of the region, e.g. Lake Lednica with the remains of a settlement dating from the 9th and 10th centuries, where, according to the legend, the first Polish King to be crowned, Boleslaw The Brave, was born...

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Travel from Berlin to Warsaw, six hour trip through the white Poland without any limits. With the old train stations, some old trains, my one was the Berlin- Warszawa Express, so with good standards. That does not mean the trains are fast in any way, but that lets time to watch the landscapes roll away. Between Warsaw and Krakow, there is a fast railway that makes the two big cities better linked.