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Did you get all exited mate & rush over & ask for a go - lol

to be honest pete ..i did look and think that as i got closer ... lol ;-)

wow! very interesting street scene here...so much to see...

thanks jamby ..

where's militia?.............king Zygmuś watching everything ?very nice photo of "legoland"

mac .. i love legoland ... the militia happened after .. me and keit went in church for while ... i thought they where working on king Zygmus at first

Very nice place and capture of it!

thanks Archer ... .. your pictures are a delight to see ;-)

as you got closer and we entered the church finally lol

;-)

x

Haven´t been to Warsaw, but I hear it is such a beautiful(!) town :-)

Actually I have only been to "eastern" Europe once. That was to Hungary - in 1983, -oh yes, the cold war was alive and well in those days! :-D

It was a very "different" experience, I must admit! When we landed at the airport in Budapest (after a memorable flight with Malév - the Hungarian state airline), the aircraft just parked wayyy out on a ramp where there was nothing whatsoever around. The terminal buildings were visible way off in the distance.

Then after having disembarked and waited on the tarmac beside the plane for a bit, a bus carrying soldiers with automatic rifles came. They hearded aboard the bus, wich drove us to the terminal buidling and we got our luggage. -But lots of Kalashnikovs everywhere!

Well, we stayed in Hungary for a month and we lived with a hungarian family while we were there, (really nice)! But each week we had to report to the police station in the district where we were staying. That usually took about an hour. Not that there was any line or such.

We had been carefully warned not to make any fuss, by the way.
Each week, we went to this dark & dreary police station (Rendörség, the Hungarian police is called) ;-) with dark wood paneling on the walls. The waiting room was very small (or felt so, at least) ;-D and the lighting consisted of one lamp in the centre of the ceiling. I swear it couldn´t have been more than 15watt (LOL)!

Anyway, we presented ourselves to the man sitting behind a small window and gave him our passports. (And now comes the bit about not saying anything)!!
He would then place our passports on the desk before him, light up his pipe and lean back in his chair, looking at the passports - for *an hour*! (I´m not kidding)!!

Then when he decided that we had waited long enough (without saying anything), he would take a stamp and stamp our passports. In theory the whole thing could have taken *less* than 5 minutes - because there were never any people there!

But I must say that I am really pleased that I got to experience eastern Europe before the iron wall came down. It really was something else!!

Best regards,
Karl Trausti from Iceland

Phew, that was quite a comment! ;-D
-K

Karl .. that is a very good story, glad you have patience in the past..its sounds like you needed it .... and yes Warsaw Old Town is very peaceful.. just lovely in fact

What a lovely houses!

Carli .. the area is beautiful .. all rebuilt after being destroyed during the war ..but all built the same as it was before the War ..

Love the old buildings and the streets are so clean.

very true.... lots of street repair going on near here for many months but yes very clean .. beautiful

amazing story karlbark!!!

not clean, believe me I live there lol

must be dirty here then lol

the only really clean streets i've seen in germany lol :)

Never been there ..so I must take your word for it ;-)