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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 26/11/2018: Warsaw, old and new

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 26/11/2018: Warsaw, old and new
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:04:56 +0000
And it looks so much better than the gaudy eyesores, Nathan.  I can see why you 
like modern architecture :-)

Chris

> On 27 Nov 2018, at 05:35, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I am spending the week in Warsaw, my last business trip of  the year. The 
> days are short here in late November, so I suspect that most of my photos 
> will be of the night variety. Last night I went for a walk around the hotel. 
> It was a clear and cold evening, with light frost. I walked up to a building 
> that was emblematic of Warsaw in Communist times, the Palace of Culture and 
> Science, a “gift” from Stalin to the people of Warsaw, completed in 1955:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-K9WQZvJ/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-K9WQZvJ/A>
> 
> The entrance to the Stalinist eyesore looks nicer and more colourful than it 
> did in the bad old days:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-DtLkKS7/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-DtLkKS7/A>
> 
> And then you take a lift to the observation deck on the 30th floor, and the 
> new, post-1989 Warsaw, is right there in front of you:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-BGVgX2T/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-BGVgX2T/A>

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