Fibak Art Gallery

Art Academy in Warsaw

Vintage farm house in Masovia

Beautiful, made of wood, vintage farm house was pulled down, each piece is numbered, moved to new location from eastern Poland and put together again. Below you can see how an architect friend made a weekend house for herself - two old houses joint together to make a big one.

On the left - first old house. On the right side - you can see the only new part that joints both houses together.

Two houses made to one - I love it. Perfect job. Can you have a closer look? See what I see? This house in fact is two houses joint together with and an open space. First house is on the left side, second on the right side. 2 old wooden houses brought from eastern part of Poland.

Maybe this is not common practice, but sometimes the only chance if you want to live in vintage farm house.

Warsaw art exhibition - Comix'sage

At the beginning of December there was an exibition Comix'sage - study of the process coming from simple drawn lines to final artwork. You may see fragmented work on the walls and the final comix booklet.

Authors of presented drawings and paintings: Gabriel Kołat, Daniel Gembus, Wojciech Prokop and Daniel Baum.

At the vernissage it was possible to meet hosts T-Raperzy znad Wisły - Sławomir Szczęśniak // Grzegorz Wasowski and listen to great Polish accordion player Dariusz Świnoga.

Art exibition in Warsaw - this time in completely new place SKWER located at Krakowskie Przedmieście 62, on the little triangle between KP and Pałac Kazanowskich.

Window View - Warsaw, Wola

Window view, in the office at Erazma Ciołka street.

Chianti - Italian Restaurant in Warsaw, Poland

Chianti is the Italian restaurant in Warsaw worth to visit. Exists on Foksal 17 street since 90-ties - quite an achievement in very competitive gastronomic market in Warsaw. Plenty of places are 1 season stars and dissappear faster than appear. Chianti (Warsaw, Poland) best part is the nice food, friendly service and nice interior design.

Last time I was there last week - nothing really changed. For 2 hours in nice atmosphere of this Italian reasturant, dinner for 2 we spent 40 USD.

In the summer there are few tables outside.

Menu cover.

You get starters to any meals you order. Some bread and - this time - garlic butter. No olive oil present on the table. Maybe I could have asked for it.

Our main course lamb cotelets with bone (10 USD), red wine (house wine 3 USD/glass).

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Warszawa Poland - Most Beautiful Food Shop "Krakowski Kredens"

Krakowski Kredens is special food shop which offers food produced according to old Polish recipes. It is also beautifully designed, so if you are at Nowy Świat Street 22.

"Krakowski Kredens" means "Cupboard of Cracow" - the idea is based on the traditions of wealthy middle class of Cracow at the end of XIX beginning of XX.

Crispy morning, weather in Warsaw Poland

Street art and best updating tool

If you want to stay updated on what's going on in the clubs (especially alterative ones) just get out to the streets and watch closely the posters - thats the best updating tool.

Other way is to follow some websites, but that's more difficult :) For example there is
Aktivist.pl that stays updated in few cities in Poland, but it is not available in English.

WarsawInsider.pl provides info in English, but is not really updating club life.

Whatsup.pl gives all important information to a foreigner in Poland.

Warsaw window shopping

Pictures taken in Złote Tarasy - newest commercial center in Warsaw, located just next to old communist railway station building.

Hard Rock Cafe vs Stalin

Yesterday I was rushing around the city, just trying to fix some things. I was looking around and I was thinking how bad it is, that after the war Warsaw was not restored properly. The main part of the center full of ruins of old apartment houses was not restored - there was a decision of removing them and place there a huge building Palace of Culture called 'Gift from Stalin'.
Josef Stalin was horror Soviet Union leader 1922-53. It was said he gave an option of either a metro system, or the palace. The people wanted a metro, so Stalin gave them the palace :( In 50-ties.
There is a concert hall, where are many performances taking place. The first band visiting Poland behind Iron Courtain was The Rolling Stones - I was kid at that time, but since then they had many fans in Poland. My mom was one of them :) so, when I was a kid I used to hear Rolling Stones as lullabys :)

Still today the center of the City is not arranged yet, because there are too many different ideas and there is no settlement. The ideas oscillate between removing Stalin's gift completely through leaving it and just hide with skyscrapers to expose it nicely as important historical monument.
I really do not understand why to remove it - whatever history is connected with it, it is still part of the past and history, right?

Walking around yesterday I just realise just another Laugh of the History - that huge guitar as big as the Palace of Culture. The first one you can find here.

Warsaw in January