One of the world's most famous composers grew up here in Warsaw and here is the museum opened in his honour. I'm not enough of a classical music fan to pay the entry fee, however.
Warsaw Rising October 3rd 2016 Warsaw. It sounds pretty grim doesn't it? That tends to happen when you put the words "war" and "saw" together. Then you add the city's history and its association with the Eastern bloc and you have a connotation for the word "bleak". Yet it is exactly this which also gives the city intrigue - and all that stuff was a long time ago now so it was time to see how Warsaw has changed.
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Europe » Poland » Masovia » Warsaw Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived near the middle of the 10th century. Its golden age occurred in the 16th century. During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation. In a series of ... ... read more
Hi,
Most of you will have been directed here by me - if so, thanks for coming. If not, thanks for coming anyway.
I am Derek - a Kiwi who in June 2007, set off on a 4 1/2 month sortie around Europe via the USA, and set up this blog so that friends, family and randoms could keep track of where I had been to, and of the shenanigans I inevitably got up to.
The trip inspired me to keep travelling and directly following it, I spent the next seven years living in London, which was a fantastic base from which to continue my travels and thus the travelling continued unaba... full info