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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wrocław
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:23:56 +0530
References: <453DA83B-3B9D-4E16-90D3-D7E760AFA7B7@frozenlight.eu>

Nice walk through a place I might never reach....
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Wroc?aw is a city of about 700,000 inhabitants in south-western Poland.
> Until 1945 it was known by its German name of Breslau. Since the Middle
> Ages, it has been a melting pot of Poles, Germans, Czechs and Jews, as
> wonderfully described by the British historian Norman Davies in his book
> ?Microcosm - Portrait of a Central European City?. It is the city where I
> was born and where my sister still lives. Tuesday was her birthday, so my
> wife and I went there for a few days, taking advantage of the direct
> Ryanair flight from Alicante. The city is changing rapidly, it is one of
> the booming parts of the New Europe. But there are still many reminders of
> the Communist past and indeed of the German past before that. I used to not
> think much of this place, but recent visits, and especially this one, have
> given me an appreciation of the vibrancy and vitality of this city. Here is
> a small sample of what the place looks like:
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> http://www.frozenlight.eu/wroclaw2015
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> YNWA
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Replies: Reply from geneduprey2015 at gmail.com (Gene Duprey) ([Leica] IMG: Wrocław)
In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] IMG: Wrocław)