Travel to Poland....

Again and again....

Warsaw can be very busy.

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

Works go on, during night and day.

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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