Earth Day in Pole Mokotowskie

So the buglers can announce, Earth day. Yes it was a few weeks back, but anyway, we popped off to Pole Mokotowskie a very central park with lots of space and a kind of sad pond/lake in the middle. It was once an airfield but now just a big green space between Mokotow and the "city".

Forest band buglers.

There were plenty of people there, it was really well supported and the Forest group put on plenty of displays from bands playing to wood cutting displays.

Wood sawing display

Supermodels were present

Sometimes when you don't speak Polish in Poland it feels like this guy must

 There was also a really beautiful display of once injured predator birds that had been cared for and brought back to health and are now used for educational purposes. I have always thought birds of prey were fascinating and these were no exception.

Display of predator birds, here the barn owl.

Up close and personal, glad I am not a mouse.

Goat gingerbreads, cute.

 There were also food stalls about, which of course always attract me. I loved the goat shaped gingerbreads, had a rather disappointing pasty styled pierogi and some non-alcoholic beer as well, equally disappointing, but then again what do you expect from non-alcoholic beer.....

Feeling almost Australia with sausages (aka snags in Australia)

Plenty of people about

 The crowds just kept growing from when we arrived early on around 11AM and when we left it was heaving.

Traditional sweets, in Australia we call the chocolate crackles

Women in Uniform, was a song, here it is a forest band reality

Sometimes the uniforms can be about colours

trepidation

 It was a warm day, and the Jones clan were wanting to head home and we opted to take the lift on offer, so it was with trepidation that we hit the road homeward bound.

And then home for fresh lemonade with mint.

Overall, it was a lovely day with great weather and really interesting displays and I was really proud that it was so well supported, maybe there is a possibility of Polish people and in specifics Warsawians to be more environmentally friendly.

Recently..... in Krakow.....a young lady......

So it has again been a few weeks between posts. Reason being we have been to Krakow with an Aussie friend (Simon) and also had him and another Aussie (Jason) pop into Warsaw for a few days of sightseeing and funnily enough, good weather.

So when it comes to Krakow, I really like it there, especially the fact that there is a medieval square right in the middle of town, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Market_Square,_Krak%C3%B3w. Of course this is popular with tourists, but also locals as well. This first post about Krakow is basically going to be some glimpses of people and even parts of people from the Town Square. The advantage of being in a tourist focused location and having a telephoto lens allows you to take photos of people without being too obvious. Thus combining two of my favourite past times. People watching and photography. Oh, to be a sociologist photographer.

Also sorry to the ladies looking for hot boys, I tend for some strange reason to focus on women, children and old people. I do also have a strange fascination with women's feet/shoes. Maybe because I spend so much time with Marty in shoe stores...... just kidding. Only every second weekend.
I thought I should start with a part that is well notable and this is the statue known as the Adam Mickiewicz Monument.
Someone here looks impressed with the break dancing crew that I didn't get a photograph of.I love this little guy. He seems to be enjoying himself so much!Here is one for the ladies, Mr Mullet! This one is party at the back, front and sides!
This move is known as the Reverse Bundy (re: Al Bundy from Married with Children).
I thought it was nice that these two decided to have their red jacket day.

Everyone loves a giggle.
It wasn't just me snapping away.
Ha Ha I got away with taking a photo and don't they look happy.....
Until the ladies, I think, realised I was there to take a photo, about now.
This is a sweet tradition in Poland. That when you wait for someone, you give them flowers, boy to girl, or girl to girl. But not boy to boy, they are still a little homophobic. I blame the Pope.
Granny about town, hey, we all love grannies!
It is the old man races! Look at them go.No I am getting lower, heading to the legs department, she must be cold to be so purple.
Now down to the foot coverings, or maybe it is the elevator factor here.
It looks like the man is about to kick her!Check out the shoes on this beauty! She had some great legs too!
Sometimes a long lens can even be hidden up close to get shots of earrings and the like.
Yes this guy is about to grab his man bits, and in about 3 seconds she does too! They were certainly ummmm friendly in public.
A great time to take crowd shots is when there is something public. This was a breakdance crew, don't you just love that kid in the corner?!

Oh yeah, in Krakow, there are weddings everywhere. From Friday to Monday, we saw them all over the place.
I swear he pushed her over before helping her up in front of mum and dad.
Nothing like Sunday morning papers.
And here I was thinking Mimes were hatched from eggs with faces like that!
That is some headlock she has there.
Surely she is a hostess? Who else would dress like that on a Sunday?
Her stomach says yummie and she is smiling, I am not even going to say a thing..... or should I?
One of the waitresses pondering life and the where she could have gone out last night if it wasn't for having to work a Sunday morning.