Summer 2005 (11-14 August) - Warsaw (Poland)
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The fountain in Old Town Square, Warsaw.

Rynek Starego Miasta (Old Town Square), Warsaw.

The original pillar, destroyed in WWII, for...

The statue of King Zygmunt III Waza, Warsaw.

The City Walls, Warsaw.

The Barbican (left foreground), Warsaw.

A good comparison of the pre- and post-WWII Old Town, Warsaw - notice the difference in color of the stone.

The new and the old - a ruined and rebuilt building, Warsaw.

The Presidential Palace, Warsaw.

A government building (across the street from the Presidential Palace), Warsaw.

A building along Trakt Krolewski (the Royal Way), Warsaw.

A church along Trakt Krolewski, Warsaw.

The National Library, Warsaw.

Ujazdowski Park, Warsaw.

Ujazdowski Park, Warsaw.

Palac na Wodzie (Palace on the Water), Lazienki Park, Warsaw.

A Palace in Lazienki Park, Warsaw.

The (under-renovation) Chopin Museum, Warsaw.

The Chopin Monument in Lazienki Park, Warsaw.

The Chopin Monument in Lazienki Park, Warsaw.

A (slightly decapitated) statue of Mikolaj Koperniki (Copernicus), Warsaw.

A statue of Charles de Gaulle, Warsaw.

Statue of the Little Insurgent, Warsaw.

About the Uprising, Warsaw.

The Uprising Monument, Warsaw.

The Uprising Monument, Warsaw.

The Uprising Monument, Warsaw.

The Uprising Monument, Warsaw.

The Uprising Monument, Warsaw.

The Uprising Monument, Warsaw.

The monument to the HQ of the Uprising, Warsaw.

Umschlagplatz, Warsaw. This monument stands on the former site of the railroad platform where most Jews were deported from Warsaw.

Umschlagplatz, Warsaw.

Umschlagplatz, Warsaw.

Umschlagplatz, Warsaw.

A ruined factory, Warsaw.

What became of the Jewish ghetto, Warsaw.

Palac kultury (Culture Palace) - a Stalinist era "wedding cake" building, Warsaw.

Near the Presidential Palace is this housing complex, Warsaw.

My bus to Wilno (Vilnius), Lithuania.

The rest stop on the way to Vilnius.

The rest stop on the way to Vilnius.

The rest stop on the way to Vilnius.

The rest stop on the way to Vilnius.



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