A taste of the homeland, and even Tram’s need some REM
Posted: July 6, 2012 Filed under: Warsaw | Tags: 1, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26, 31, 33, 4, 40, 74, 9, art, avenue, avenue of trees, brie, Business and Economy, Camembert, Cheddar, Cheddar cheese, cheese, cheesey, cook, depot, dream, drink, Food, gorgonzola, hala, hall, Macaroni and cheese, photography, Poland, poor imitations, rapid eye movement, rem, restaurants, second image, seriously strong, Shopping, sleep, tea, tram, tram line, travel, trees, vacation, Warsaw, zet Leave a comment
The local super(cheap)market has started selling seriously strong Cheddar cheese! Amazing! After months of strange pastey cheeses and rather poor imitations of brie and the like I’ve gotten my hands on some lovely proper cheese! Don’t get me wrong, Cheddar has never been my favorite cheese in the world, but at least it has some character and flavour, a very welcome addition to the refrigerator! At last some decent cheese on toast is on the horizon! If only I could get my hands on some Lea & Perrins!
After the cheesey delights we headed out for an evening amble, which I will break up into a couple of posts, as there are lots of pictures. First on the agenda has to be the Tram Depot, where many of the trams have their night time naps. Looking at the second image below you can see just how seriously Warsaw takes the sleep of their Trams, REM level or above only!
Signs of an old Tram line, caught up in an avenue of trees.
Rapid Eye Movement essential!
China pops in on Chopin
Posted: July 4, 2012 Filed under: Warsaw | Tags: 9 - 11, Africa, Asia, avenue, beautiful, china, chinese, Chinese characters, Chopin, city, dark, darkness, dragon, drink, Food, Hong Kong, July, June, lantern, lazienki, night, palace, parade, park, photo, photography, Poland, royal, stylized, tea, time, travel, Warsaw 2 Comments
Park Lazienki, the Royal Park is currently hosting a little bit of China along one of it’s avenues. Two long rows of beautiful red Chinese lanterns line the path way and cross a little bridge where some (rather stylized) Chinese characters sit. The lanterns are really beautiful, with so many different designs it’s impossible to count. During June they were lit up between 9 and 11 every night, but now we are in July they are just being lit up on a Friday Saturday and Sunday night, but it is worth a visit, and to wander around the whole park at night is quite beautiful experience. There are pretty much no other lights in the park apart from the lanterns, so it is very very dark if you are still there by 11. It does make for a really nice evening out though. The second to last image is probably the best for demonstrating how beautiful some of these lanterns are.
A Travel and Tea Diary 