A couple of weeks back we took a tour around Stara Ochota (Old Desire). Funnily named as it is only 100 years old. So not really that old. It was a really interesting tour from what I could gather (it was all in Polish), I didn't quite get it all, but Marty tried to translate as much as possible. It is hard as I want to listen to see what I understand now with a slight increase in my Polish language base, but I do not want to miss the info and it is hard for her to remember the whole story for translating when the guide talks for 5-10 minutes per stop..... so damned if you do and damned if you don't, in that sense. Either way I can recommend everyone the tour group we took, if you speak Polish of course, click
here.
It was nice seeing old chocolate factories, the houses and controversies that surround certain areas too. I left a little early as I was feeling a little ill (I had some horrid allergic reaction to a tree, or a flu...hard to say). It ended up going for 4 hours, and just for 20PLN. Bargain!
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| Now where did I park my bike? |
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| Rebel Radio Mural |
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| Whole mural |
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| I love the old schoolness to this. |
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| Our guide and some of the group |
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| Sooooo 80's glass |
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| Zygmunt crashed his plane here, he went to hospital, the man he landed on didn't. |
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| We nearly bought an apartment right here! |
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| Hala Kopinska, once a pool, now a market. |
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| The group learning about the world near alcatraz. |
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| Damn that is some interesting hair....... |
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| I am Mr Vain. or is that Mr Vein. |
