[Leica] IMG: Wrocław

[Douglas Barry]

Nice spread of images, Nathan. The love lock plague is a curse that 
infects Dublin too. It's mainly caused by tourists who assume they're in 
a theme park laid out for their benefit.

Last week I was down in the Burren, Co. Clare and went to visit the 
early 13th Century abbey at Corcomroe. We were on our own until a 
busload of American tourists rolled up and disgorged a mainly elderly 
crew who gradually swarmed over the place. As the floor of the nave is 
heavily dotted with grave slabs from the various centuries, it acted as 
a magnet as they hunted for pre-Columbian dates on the slabs to ohs and 
ahs. Beside me, one woman stood on a slab and addressed one of her 
companions loudly "Nancy, I can't read this date as it's very worn". I 
remarked back that it was probably because too many people had walked on 
it just like she was doing, and ignored the signs saying not to do so 
just like she had. It pissed me off that their Irish driver had not 
emphasised to them before they came in to the abbey that such behaviour 
will rob future visitors of an experience.

Douglas

On 01/07/2018 08:57, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> After my 2 days in Warsaw in late June, I spent the weekend visiting my sister in Wrocław, the city in SW Poland where I was born. It was nice to be there during the summer, with decent (if cloudy) weather and long days, conducive to photography. And conveniently, Ryanair has a direct flight to Alicante on Sunday evenings, so it all worked great from a planning perspective.
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> The city has around 675,000 inhabitants and has undergone tremendous renewal since the fall of Communism in 1989. It has become a much more attractive place than the drab town in which I spent my early childhood in the 1960s.
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> A gallery of around 50 images is here. You have seen some of these places in my earlier postings from Wrocław (especially the area around city hall), but there are also “new” places and new angles on old places:
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> http://www.frozenlight.eu/wroclaw_june2018/
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
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