Showing posts with label Lazienki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lazienki. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Warsaw and Łazienki Gardens

From the main thoroughfare of Warsaw, Nowy Swiat, you can take a bus directly to the Royal Baths Park (Łazienki Królewskie in Polish). It is a really popular location with Warsavians and tourists alike, especially on weekends. You will regularly see people strolling with their grandparents, babies or simply love interests in the well kept gardens. It is also very popular with wedding photographers. Also, in summer they have many Chopin concerts free and open air.

So let's stride south from the cafe district to the park

What is that brown spot there?
"Hey!" this deer appears to be saying.
"What?"
Next thing woody woodpecker pops up.

It looks like an OK symbol but he is actually holding a rock.
lunch
be cool, I am a squirrel
Well hello there.


Man that guy in the background is ruining the photo. Is probably what the other guys is saying.

Monday, October 04, 2010

The very best of the best of Warsaw #2

#2
Łazienki Palace


Well I have written previously about the Łazienki Palace complex, as it is a really lovely spot to walk around. It is certainly somewhere to "escape to" on a nice weekend. Only problem with it, apart from the vigilant guards who won't let you sit on the manicured lawns, is that it is darned popular! There is always decent crowds there on weekends or any sunny day, along with free Chopin concerts in Summer which is really lovely if that is your 'cup of tea'.
If not there are statues to look at, some randomly broken like this.....
Or of ladies and fish doing things....
It is similar to Nowy Swiat and Krakowskie Przedmiescie in the sense that people love to walk here, they are still dressed immaculately, however, they tend to walk the extremes. They will have in their gloved hand an icecream, and in the other a small child or grandmother. It is the place where they exercise and show off who they are. Some take the big cameras to snap their wives posing or their kids running amok. Others will take a book and read when the weather is nice. Many will be showing off their prams and new borns to doting grandparents, while some of the younger crowd who still live at home will use it as a chance to get some space from their parents and kiss grotesquely their girlfriend/boyfriend of the moment, play music on their mobile phones or just simply relax.
Overall I like the park, except when they tell me not to play in the meadows of beautiful wild flowers. Darned grumpy security guards!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Back in Wawa (briefly)

OK, I know that many of you are sitting there champing at the bit to get back to some Australian pictures..... I will do that soon. However, something I wanted to do before I ran away to join the circus or whatever it is that I do with my time. I thought I would show all in the other locations (other than Warsaw) how lovely it is at the moment. Not just that but about the colour that some people create in their world around them. I am whacking in a series of street art in here. To show although there is lots of communistic concrete here, people still have ideas, creativity and apply these two together!

Firstly I will start with some colour photos of the day, then some black and whites to get your brains going and then the street art. Sound fair?
Ok so it is a sign to tell you how to pick up poops, but I just liked the little dog.
Such marvellous skies!
Covered:

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.” Giovani Giocondo

One for you Angelo Fasano!

I swear that this guy totally looked like the failed Mario brother, Gluigi.
Flowers and the memory of Smolensk.
A nutty future, ye shall have.
The Łazienki Park behind Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski Let's see you say that with half a sandwich in your mouth!
I think it looks nicer in Black and White with the little toy people in it.
Marty pondering the world of toy people.
Ground pimples.
Dance, little people, dance like there was no tomorrow.
Please people, let sleeping gnomes lie.
I call this one "Grampoflage". It is focused on camouflage for grandpa type people to hide from grandmas.
Don't stair up too long.
Also don't stair down.
A Curly Wurly for sale.

Let the street art begin!

I specifically like the happy Narwhal.
Blue Blast!
Oh la and la.
Stanley, never was a cool name.
Smoking pot makes you fly apparently, but plant pots?
Marty and her Mumuska
Yuk yuk yuk, I paint good, yuk yuk yuk.
I am amongst the little people now.
A whole lotta peacock.
You gotta love the little red doodle. Only controversial because it is red.
Do I hear copyright infringement?
Surely you would trust a man in a hat..... right?
Llama lambada.
Spaceblob.
Attack of the Godzilla like raccoon.
Just pure garbage.