Gay Pride with ... delay

Festa Major Sitges 2011

Another Festa Major behind us, as usually it was so much fun! Looking forward to next month's Santa Tecla, which is maybe not that "sparky" but genuine and very local.

Praski Story

praski --------- hmmmm -------- i have to ------- cant be that bad ------- hmmmmm

ma'am, we dont have any of your charts ------------ i'll wait, please keep looking ------ here it is -------- your name again?

waiting ------ not just me ----------- waiting----------- looking around ----- waiting

good --- i can still walk ----- poor lady ---- she must have good daughter, she took time off work ----- i have good daugter too

ok, time to go   ---- where is that again?

descending into the x-ray basement ------- green dark basement ----- it will be quick, i hope, i want

was it flooded recently ? ------ why these women are so unpleasant here? ------- i really want to get out quick

Targówek Welcome

One of the most infamous districts of Warsaw - happened to be my home :) Targówek is one big "blokowisko", I guess in the west called a "project". As most of my generation we grew up in those, 2,3-room apartments with bath and kitchen with a wonderful view on other 3-bedms-bath-kitchens. 

Surrounded by high project buildings, old architecture crumbles uninhibited and forgotten.... ... while the tall weeds get their half-a-decade makeover ...

To get away from it all you can kill some time at local Tesco, with the wide range of polish cuisine - flaki, kurczak z rozna, golonka z gryczana or choose from wide range of price-oriented fashion items.

Many locals, my fellow neighbors and ex-schoolmates prefer to spend their free time on "działkas" - small garden quarters that somehow people came across owning throughout 80-ties. Działkas" are famous for the spontaneously staring fires, late night police raids and free cherries you can pick in season from your next-door grandma's "działka". Besides that it is great place to spend time with your buddies drinking "Biedronka's" cheap beer or hang out on the heat distribution pipes.  

Welcome to Targowek ! I hate Biedronka !