Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Love the bubbles one - HBD to your Sister Nathan, from well across the EU :-) Amities Philippe > Le 14 oct. 2020 ? 09:10, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a ?crit : > > I am spending a few days in the city where I was born, Wroc?aw in Poland, > visiting my sister here. The weather is awful, but I still enjoy my first > trip outside Spain since early March. The other day I took these three > images, illustrating the city?s past as the German city of Breslau and its > present as a modern, vibrant Polish city. > > These two buildings, student residences for the nearby technical > university, are known as ?the pencils?: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-4sf7KD6/A > > Then, I was walking on this street near my sister?s apartment building. > The houses on the left date from before the war, and somehow they managed > to survive the almost total destruction of the city in January-April 1945. > They also do not seem to have been maintained much since then: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-2cJqTk5/A > > As evidenced by the faded, but still visible, signs in German, indicating > that here was a grocery store back when this city was called Breslau: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-hgW9fBg/A > > More cheerful photos coming later. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > 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 > > "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information