Category: Poland
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Street Art in Kraków
There is quite a bit of street art in Kraków, and you can see my photographs of them here. Our guide Pavel of Free Walking Tours (which I highly recommend) showed us around and give us some background on the works we saw. Most of the art, although not all, was in Kazimierz (the Jewish district) and a couple of pieces…
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It Was a Beautiful Day at Auschwitz
While the impetus to visit Poland was Linda’s need to visit Auschwitz, we weren’t expecting our trip to Poland to be a lesson on WW II, the Holocaust, and Poland under Soviet rule. In fact, other than Auschwitz we had no expectations of what our trip to Poland would be like, except it seemed like an…
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Impressions of Kraków
We really liked Kraków. And although we really liked Warsaw too (there is major rivalry here), they are very different — similar to the difference between New York and San Francisco. Warsaw is a big city with an urban feel, and really spread out. Kraków is more compact and easier to get around, more like a…
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Yes, But Is It Street Art?
One of the things we want to explore on our trip is street art. While we have been involved with art for many years, we only recently became interested in street art. So while we know something about it, our ideas about street art are still in the process of crystallizing, just as the movement…
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We’re in Łódź?
While we came to Łódź to see the art, there are a lot of other things there – we got to Piotrkowska Street, Off Piotrkowska, Manufaktura (where our very cool hotel was — in a renovated factory), and the the Museum of Cinematography. You can find out about those places and others, and about the…