Street stroll No.2

Next from the Plac I continued my amble down Marszałkowska. I popped across this nicely adorned scooter, all the sun made it shimmer like stars.
As I have mentioned previously there are so many different styles of building in Warsaw, some old some new, some borrowed and some blue. This one just has great repetition, some people may find that boring. Not me, I love the simplicity of repetition, maybe because I am so bad at doing the same thing twice....
It was so warm that cafes are starting to get their outdoor seating organised, this is Green Cafe on Marszałkowska, I am yet to coffee test there, but it is rather popular and has a great view of the Palace of Culture.
You know it is "THE" season, when all the big big sunnies come out. I was looking just the other day at all these people wearing sunglasses and as an already bespectaled, I am not sure if I envy sunglass wearers or not. In the old days when I did wear them, I know I was always dropping them, breaking them, losing them or just plain forgetting them. Anyway, the cool kids, especially the women in Warsaw, are right into them now.
As are these two on Marszałkowska as they power walk all the big brand shops
and this one on Świętokrzyska.
While Mr. Wieslaw conquers the world, apparently.
There were plenty of people out on Krakowskie Przedmieście, just soaking up the sun.
Skwer was heaving.
Whilst others perused the Easter market.
They sell Palms here that are blessed for Easter at the church directly behind or their own favourite family church.
It was a free for all, there were people buying these things, lord only knows why. Oh hang on, he probably does, too.
So I might as well finish again on what will probably be a recurring theme for a while in spring, yes, you are right. Women in beige.

Then away we go, from the festival

After all that excitement, we needed to get out of the Old Town as there were snakes about, well at least one that I had the chance to observe.
As we strolled, we saw a line up to get an icecream and it included a whole family that had been to a wedding ceremony, I am guessing by their attire.
Then we got to the old square and found a fancy looking granny staring at something. But what is it?
Of course it is a Piano Accordion player, banging out some great tunes in front of the Royal Palace.
The Royal Palace looked like this at the end of WWII, but certainly looks prettier now (thanks to Wikipedia for that pic)
The accordionist was really quite good and Marty went and flicked him a couple of Zloty to keep him playing. Here you see him in front of the Sigismund's Tower, he was the King that moved to Warsaw from Krakow.
Just opposite the tower good old King Ziggy also has a column strangely enough called Kolumna Zygmunta in Polish. It was erected in 1644 so is old in theory. Well, the statue is, but the column has been rebuilt. It has 4 eagles, the national symbol, at its base.

At the small base of the column you can sit and watch the world pass through the square, stroll in from Krakowskie Przedmiescie or popping up from the Aleja Solidarnosci, or of course the colourful balloon lady.
With such sunny weather there were plenty out and about seeing the world.
But we couldn't hang around the Old Town all day tapping our feet to the sounds of the piano accordion, as I had promised heated beverages for Miss Marty, so off to Mariensztat it shall be. As we strolled down the gentle incline to the "Near Vistula" region I took this photo, a view I hadn't actually seen in such nice light before.
So why not check out the performance and surroundings below.