Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fascinating, with all the money that the EU has put into Poland as evidenced by the "pencils" there are still remnants of 75 plus years ago. Still, lovely to see your sister again for another successful pass around the sun. On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:10 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > 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 -- Don don.dory at gmail.com