I'm not from Warsaw, I live in Wrocław, but I really feel you... Warsaw is a beautiful, big city with different faces. One-time visit in Warsaw is not enough!😀. You're so precious and smart person! You really go deeper into everything what you experience and consider various issues!
@Lexi Urodziłem się i mieszkam we Warszawie. Ale ilekroć byłem we Wrocławiu zawsze spotykałem tam bardzo uprzejmych ludzi w przeciwieństwie do tak zwanej "zielonej Warszawy", czyli osób, które nie urodziły się w Warszawie, lecz przybyły tu i zamieszkały. Pozdrawiam serdecznie
"Warsaw is like an onion!" I couldn't say it better👌I have a soft spot for Warsaw because of one thing: the Warsaw Uprising 1944 when nearly 200.000 civilians were killed from mass executions by Germans. Also the Germans dedicated an unprecedented effort to razing the city, destroying 90% of the buildings. My grandmother with four little sons had to run away from Warsaw. After the war it took the Polish people only a few years to rebuild it cause people didn't have anywhere to live. This is the reason, its architecture might seem chaotic. Warsaw is a city that rose like a phoenix from the ashes.
Are you sure there's a reason to be proud of lost uprising? Having 200k people butchered? This is our Polish madness. Respect for fallen civilians and soldiers. Forever shame on those who gave orders to start all this
@@wojciechkowalewski1043 Z przykrością muszę stwierdzić, iż podzielam Pański pogląd. "Nigdy więcej wojny!" To hasło dość stare ale wciąż aktualne. Pozdrawiam serdecznie
Howard Stern, an anti polish and racist radio host from America, once said that Warsaw is a shithole, he also accused Polish people for the WWII and the Holocaust. Likewise, he doesn't believe that Poles saved Jws and died in the Holocaust as well. Fortunately, the world now starts to see how slandering and defaming were his assumptions. Poland is the Christ of the Nations.
Hello. I'm an average Pole, just discovered your channel a month ago, when you were leaving Ukraine because of war. Initially I just cheered for you, Marina and Mosya (sorry if I mispelled her name!) to find a safe place to settle and just live in peace. Now it's like you're giving me a completely new view on my own country, Poland, and on Warsaw, a city where I lived and studied for 5 years. Thank you! It is wonderful to see everything with your eyes. I'm also loving your insights about Polish language :) Please, keep making your videos. I wish you and your family everything best! (also if you want to visit Łódź, the city I live in right now, be sure to check Piotrkowska street, the area OFF Piotrkowska, Manufaktura, Monopolis and the centre with it's old, sometimes not renovated since war, tenements :D) Take care!
The monument in Łazienki park, is Fryderyk Chopin. The tree over Chopin's head (tree - part of the monument) is made from real mold of Chopin's hand. Cool concept of the monument, isn't it? During the summer till mid autumn - every weekend there are Chopin's live concerts, that's why there are so many benches. Between those benches, gorgeous roses are planted. Just imagine how does it look like in the summer, you sit in the middle of roses, listening live piano concerts... 🤩 Also Chopin made couple piano concerts in that park. Across Warsaw (mostly in the center), you can see a lot of nice benches where there is small button. After pressing the button - Chopin's piano concert is played. Cool stuff for tourists 🤣
The sculpture at 14:09 is of Chopin, and in Summer there's usually concerts of his music. They're incredible to experience and free as well, definitely worth going.
Jim, thank you so much for teaching us how to be grateful and stay positive ❤️ After all, you have all reasons to complain about your fate, but you’ve decided not to. You guys are displaced by war and you don’t have a home for your baby yet, but instead of complaining, you count your blessings. I truly enjoy watching your videos, please keep posting them, so that we start counting our own blessings ❤️
At the beginning when cars were invented the name "automobil" was used (a loanword from French "automobile"). After World War I when Poland restored its independence there was a trend to find Polish names to everything instead of using foreign words and a contest was organized to find a new translation. "Samochód" won. Your interpretation is perfectly fine (etymology similat to "самолётъ"). In fact it means that a vehicle moves without any external power so it moves on its own. When it comes to an airplane in Polish it is similar that in Russian, it is "samolot", although it is accented differently (as you may have heard in Polish we use stress on the penultimate syllable in most of the cases). A similar contest was organized when it comes to the word "tank" which is quite unique in Polish because it is "czołg". It is kind of related to the way of motion of first tanks, they were really slow ("czołgać się" in Polish means "to crawl" ot "to grovel", from Proto-Slavic word "čъlgati"). By the way, I really love your channel. Greetings from Kraków.
Szkoła Główna Handlowa ("Main School for Trade") w Warszawie - it's one of the most prestigious universities to study economics and management in poland
As you are in Warsaw, take a look at Saska Kępa and Francuska Street, you will find a lot of cool and unique dining options and a nice architectural layout there. Getting there is very easy, you get off by public transport at the Washington Roundabout.
Fun fact: Łazienki Park was created by the last king of Poland- Stanisław August Poniatowski. Later, Poland become invaded by russia, Austria and Prussia and ceased to exist for 123 years.
Hi! You should definitely visit 2 places that I consider best in Warsaw - Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego (Warsaw Uprising Museum, I've seen a lot of museums around Europe and that's the best one by far) and Centrum Nauki Kopernik (Copernicus Science Center, I believe you'll spend like a whole day there, science made fun and really entertaining)
8:23 - Well, samochód is one of words used. Other common is "auto" - short from automobil. Word "maszyna" in Polish have same meaning as "machine" in English. Same Ukrainan word for train "pojazd" - in Polish means any vehicle, while train is "pociąg" - from "ciągnąć" - to pull.
I have lived in many places in Warsaw and definitely my favorites are Ochota and Mokotów. If you like parks, I recommend the Szczęśliwicki Park in Ochota and the Skaryszewski Park in Praga (my favorite), when you are there, be sure to visit Saska Kępa; ul. Francuska and its surroundings ... you should like it. Another district with an atmosphere is Powiśle; ul. Rozbrat, Górnoślązka or Profesorska ... worth visiting There are many beautiful cities in Poland, but there is something in Warsaw that makes me miss it a lot. (Now I live in Sandomierz - also a beautiful, although small city). I like your walks around Warsaw...
Definately need to go to Górka Szczęśliwicka in Szczęśliwicki Park. This is the highest hill in Warsaw located in western part of Ochota. You can even go skiing or ride a roller coaster there :)
For me town are ok but the best is nature Ojcowski national park 4days on bicycle Park table's mountanies Wisla - czantoria , tatra mountanues region Czarna hańcza kayak route Wilczy szaniec Kopalnue srebra rarnowskie gory Silesia down - zamek ksiaz , zanek czocha , moszna palace Karpacz, szklarska poreba Pieniny dunajec, czorsztynskie lake Bieszczady solina
9:40 - it's not only flag used durring protests in Belarus in 2020 - it's actually flag of Belarussian Republic before Lukashenka took power and bring back old soviet one. It's flag in use by President Elect in Exile Svietlana Cichanouska as well and voluntary Belarussian Legion fighting on Ukrainan side.
Łazienki is a gorgeous park (I can'tbelieve you didn't bring Marina with you!). In the summer you will see swans, peacocks, and there should be plenty of overfed fish in the lake. I remember piano concerts under Chopin monument and plays in the amphitheater. The guide in the little palace joked it was the only museum if this kind in the world where you can touch everything, but only with your eyes :). Your video reminded me of my childhood, thank you. The first time I saw typical American squirrel I thought it was a hairy rat. Polish ones are so pretty, and they are all named Basia! So, next time don't call squirrel per Squirrel but Basia ;)) I have no idea why this name though. I wouldn't agree on the onion, onions make you cry. Warsaw is more like an orange, sweet and sour, you never know. I have a question. Is there something that you miss from other places (Ukraine in particular) you lived in that you haven't found in Poland?
Wiewiórka Basia was a character in an old, old communist cartoon - either Polish or Czechoslovakian (I know there was a crossover between Makova Panienka, the Czechoslovakian character, and Basia). Given that at the time you had only two TV channels (an upgrade form one, don't complain!), and any type of animation would only be children cartoons at 19:30 for half an hour, everybody who grew up during the times when this cartoon was played would fully buy into it, to the point of re-naming spiecies.
Howard Stern, an anti polish and racist radio host from America, once said that Warsaw is a shithole, he also accused Polish people for the WWII and the Holocaust. Likewise, he doesn't believe that Poles saved Jws and died in the Holocaust as well. Fortunately, the world now starts to see how slandering and defaming were his assumptions. Poland is the Christ of the Nations.
Ok, I'm hooked on your channel. It's amazing to see my city, where I was born and raised, and lived for most of my life, through your eyes, where everything is new, fresh, and a little strange. For me all those streets and corners have some sentimental memories, or are so familiar, that I don't notice them anymore. Thanks for reminding me how much I love Warsaw. I know everyone is telling you about it, but if you like parks - you have park Szczęśliwicki almost around the corner. Definitely check it out. Great playground too, used to take my broody teenager there, when he was a bit younger, you may appreciate it in about a year or so :) Shame you missed the botanical gardens, just next door to Park Łazienkowski. Definitely visit it in about a month when everything starts to bloom. It's a delight. Also Łazienki is a very historic and majestic park, but if I had to find an analogy to Central Park, I think I'd go for Pola Mokotowskie. It's smaller, but much more relaxed, with at least 5 restaurants to choose from, a lot of places to relax, take a book and a picnic blanket, or roller blade (very popular on summer weekends, you have to be careful on the main lanes :)) Keep enjoying Warsaw!
Great vlog as always, it's a pleasure to watch! When you entered Łazienki park you were in front of the Chopin monument. During the summer every sunday at 12 there is a free concert of Chopin music in front of the monument. That's why there are all those benches there :)
We don't see what we've got. We take everything for granted, and conplain a lot without a reason. I'm happy you're enjoying your stay, and that you feel comfortable living in Warsaw. And thank you for being with us, you are making us respect and appreciate what we have as well as other human beings - it's easy to get lost in our fast paced lives. All the best for you, and I hope that Ukraine will soon be a free and democratic European country. There's this old Polish saying "wszedzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej" which translate to "Life is good everywhere, but you feel best at home" :) Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Howard Stern, an anti polish and racist radio host from America, once said that Warsaw is a shithole, he also accused Polish people for the WWII and the Holocaust. Likewise, he doesn't believe that Poles saved Jws and died in the Holocaust as well. Fortunately, the world now starts to see how slandering and defaming were his assumptions. Poland is the Christ of the Nations..
2:25 You've passed the "Bar Thienly" with its legendary "indyk masło-czosnek". Students of Szkoła Główna Handlowa and Politechnika love that place. You definitely have to try this dish. I miss it so much!
You should visit a warsaw uprising museum. And fun fact the only thing that wasn't scratched by germans during ww2 was the amhpiteatr in "Łazienki" because it designed to look old and destroyed. The german soliders that were send to destroy it think it's already destroyed XD
In my experience, each dzielnica is like a mini-town on its own, with a shopping area, grocery stores, cafes, residential and office space etc. Its perfectly normal to go for an entire year without visiting the City centre. Especially if you're on the left bank of the Wisla (I've only been on the right bank on a few occasions), practically every area has all the necessary infrastructure.
Nah, in Rembertów, we do not have any real big shopping mall, any cinema, any hospital or even a private clinic like luxmed, enelmed etc. - not even place to have a private/paid blood test - we had ONE, but is was closed during covid.
Dude, duuuuuuude! You nailed it! Szkoła Główna Handlowa is not an easy one to read. Your Polish is getting really good. Whatever you are doing to learn Polish, keep it up 'cause it works. Abou the words origin. There is a part of Warsaw called Wilanów. It comes from Latin Villa Nova. Take care.
You’ll definitely love the Pole Mokotowskie park, located between Ochota and Mokotow :) another big park in the city, pretty close to your neighbourhood :) and frankly speaking Ochota is so close to the city center that it is actually a part of it:) it takes just minutes to reach downtown Warsaw from the place you live in. There are more distant residential areas in Warsaw that look like a part of some village and you would never say that they belong to any big city ;) especially the southern eastern parts, which are really pretty thanks to the forests nearby (to be reached by the SKM metropolitan trains).
Samochód is an old attempt to polonise the word 'automobil'. Samo- = auto-/self-; -chód = -walk/-run/-mobile/-go. So samochód means actually 'a selfwalk' or 'selfgoer' because it did not need any horse to move 😉 We also use a word 'auto' like in German. If you need to know why 'Italy' in Polish is 'Włochy' let me know 😅
That's really weird for me as Czech because auto nechodí, auto jezdí, so you should call it at least samojezd or something like that. 🤣 Always when I hear some Silesians saying that car is walking or bus is walking (autobus přišel....) I think about joining entire Silesia to Poland, I don't want such people in my country. 🤣
@@Pidalin Your criticism of the use of the word "chodzic" is simplistic. Apart from its literal meaning, "chodzic" also means "to function" or "to do something regularly" (chodzi i zegarek, i autobus i komputer). Similarly, when you say in English "I'm going to do something", you are not going anywhere. The word "to go" is used to express an intention. Therefore, you may say "I'm going to stay at home" which, strictly speaking, is a logical absurdity.
@@MK-lm6hb English phrase "I'm going to do that" would be "Jdu to udělat" in Czech, so it's the same and it's completely normal, but car or bus should never walk in Czech, that's really weird. BTW, we don't normaly say "chodí" in meaning of it's functional, we say "funguje to" 😀 But in some cases you can say že to chodí or dělá, so it's understandable. In some Moravian or Silesian dialects, everything what is moving is walking, you are looking for logic which is not there. 🙂 When I hear "Přišel jsem tady busem" I don't even know if it's my langauge. 😀
James, you can make someone who’s never considered visiting Warsaw, want to visit Warsaw. I learn so much from your videos and really appreciate them. Say hello to Marina.
When you cross the street, be careful, cause in Poland we have law which forbids using cellphones and other electronic device during crossing the street (but only when there's no traffic lights).
I highly recommend to visit Wilanow Palace in spring/ summer time. I've visited Warsaw a few weeks ago and I was so impressed. Transport is so well organised, one ticket for tram, bus, subway for affordable price. There is so many places to see. You and you family will really enjoy it. Best of luck.
17:56 April in Poland is a strange time. We have a saying "Kwiecień plecień, bo przeplata trochę zimy, trochę lata" long story short, April is a bit of winter and a bit of summer. The weather in April is crazy in Poland.
There are many cultural events in Warsaw, when you learn a language, there will be much more to explore. I recommend checking out various events in the newspapers etc
Very cool. 😎. I’m totally enjoying these vlogs. These walks. It makes me want to do more traveling again. Haven’t really done so since COVID. So I miss that. That park was magnificent my friend. Wow. Just beautiful. ..I have to say that I’m craving a falafel now!. It’s 11pm at night… so I’ll have to wait. LoL. Thank you for another wonderful video. Much love🥰😎😉🤍
My husband and I really enjoy your videos, your reactions are so similar to ours when we first moved here! So many amazing neighbourhoods to explore ❤️ We lived in Wola at the beginning, but decided to settle outside of the city in Józefów. It's around 35 minutes on SKM from downtown Warsaw and we love having the best of both words, closeness to the city, but peace and quiet of a village. Józefów is a cool spot, in nineteen century it was a resort town . It has full infruatructure nestled amongst pine trees. There is a huge pine forest and a river fairly close to the core as well. If you would like a change of pace and a walk in a spectacular forest, I would recommend it for a daytrip. SKM will take you right to the core of Józefów 🌞Looking forward to more of your videos!
Few years ago as student i used to live on Ochota district, not very far distance from this Rossmann shop on your video, and i have to say that it's very calm place to live, most of our neighbours were people after 60 years of old, mixed with fresh parents after 30. But overall it's good place, you have oportunity to go to the center of Warsaw in 5 minutes and u can also get relatively very fast to the A2 highway which is main road connecting big cities in Poland.
Thank you for your tours around Warsaw, my home town. Ochota is the district were I used to live, over 40 years ago. You bring Warsaw to my house in 🇨🇦 🍁. Hugs for you and your wife 🤗.
Love your videos because they're part a walk down the memory lane and part "Where the heck is that?" brain puzzle. At the very beginning I wasn't sure where you are, even though I have undoubtedly walked those streets many years ago. (In my defense, Warsaw has changed a lot and I'm not familiar with the brand new buildings.) Also, you impressed me with being able to get back from Lazienki back to Niepodleglosci by public transportation, like a local! You, sir, are a true Warszawiak now.
I suggest a walk around Osiedle Staszica , my favorite place in Ochota, you can read about Staszic , who he was before a piece of Polish history ;.))Filtry are also interesting build before the war and I thin still used
They are still in use, most of the left bank of Warsaw is using water from Filtry. Once a year there's a guided tour thru Filtry - you have to get info when and book it in advance, like couple of months to get on the list, but it is really worth to see. Especially old 'slow filtration' chambers which are XIXc underground brick made constructions and they have amazing feeling, really beautiful. 'Fast filters' have the XXc, 20s industrial vibe… good stuff.
Keeping up with the protips you asked for: in polish both "ż" and "rz" are both pronounced like ж (with a single exception of derivatives from mróz: marznąć, zamarznąć etc are pronounced like you did for Żoliborz around 7:00, separate r and z, but basically only these)
What I really love about living in Warsaw is that each neighborhood functions like an individual city o its own and each of them is totally different :) You should check out Praga district and Neon Museum :)
I recomend visiting the observation deck in Pałac Kultury (that big communist style skyscraper), from where you will be able to see the whole city and Rondo Daszyńskiego in Wola District - it is the newest business area in Warsaw. Close to Rondo Daszyńskiego there are also Browary Warszawskie and Fabryka Norblina. These are like modern pedestrian zones with many restaurants, shops and cafes. Greeting from Italy District (Włochy District)
Fun fact: each district of warsaw is divided into smaller areas, and those areas can differ greatly from each other. For example you have Służewiec which is one big bussiness park (called Mordor by locals), and it's neighbouring Wyględów, much quieter, living area with older buildings. It may take weeks to explore one district alone, and this is what i love most about Warsaw.
Great installment as always. I love your videos. You are a smart person. You can see the things normally some people skip during the normal daily routine of life. I am a Pole, living in .... NJ (20 years now) :-). Starting from today, I will try to see/ do/ make a more positive sense of my beautiful state ;-) solely based on your experience. Cheers.
It's funny to see - you are living in my home district where I have lived for 24 years and in this video you stroll around the district to which I have moved last year (flying out from the family nest :)) I am very glad you enjoy your time here! I have to admit, Ochota and Mokotów are in my (biased :)) opinion best places to live in Warsaw. On a sunny day I recommend you to visit Park Szczęśliwicki, its 15 minutes of walk from where you live (or 5 minutes with 184 bus). In the video, when you were hungry you were just next to Hygge restaurant. Next time you take Marina to Łazienki come there for a meal. This place has vibes of bar/restaurant and serves great food at a really affordable price. For a romantic date, I would advise you to visit Mozaika Cafe, later walk through Park Morskie Oko to Łazienki ;) All the best for you two!
Two recommendations for Ochota: 1. You can go to Plac Narutowicza and to some small streets nearby like Filtrowa. You have nice pre WW II houses there. 2. Szczęśliwicki park that is closed to the Blue city mall that you keep going to. You are gonna like it for sure!
Check out Żoliborz between Wilson Sq and Inwalidów Sq in dirrection to the citadel and Vistula river. There are small houses, nice placer to wander around and two parks to explore
Duuude, you missed so much on seeing Mokotów :D If you're looking for cool coffee shop/restaurants in that area I highly recommend: 1. Relaks kawiarnia - worth to visit not only because of the quality stuff they serve but also to look at their poster exhibition 2. Moko - super small place more to get a coffee on the go but they have one of BEST CAKES I ever had - owners - Ewa and Karol are making them themselves 3. Mezze - because you seem to like falafels and hummus, get so called "arabian plate" 4. Gringo Bar - if you like it spicy, you gonna love this place 5. Efes - there will be whole load of buzz but it's for me and many people best kebab in Warsaw - definitely worth taking one and sit in park Jordanowski next to it where you can consume it In general Mokotów is really nice, it got nice access to multiple park, it's very green with awesome connection to city centre, loved it when I lived there. If I was choosing now where to live I'd choose Mokotów :)
A jeśli mieszka Pan obecnie we Warszawie, to chętnie udzielę informacji o mieście, w którym się urodziłem i do tej pory mieszkam, to jest we Warszawie. Pozdrawiam serdecznie
I know someone who was born in Ochota, lived here most of her life and worked in a big company which has its offices in Ochota up to retirement. Today one can spend much of their life in a single district, as each of them is a small town with absolutely everything you need in a walking distance (shops, work, hospital, schools, even local town hall etc.). But still, Warsaw has much more to offer. When you will be coming to Ursynów, go by Metro to Imielin station (it is Ursynów's center with district's town hall) and explore from there. Or just come visit ;) See you soon :)
If you like modern architecture you should visit ,,Służewiec" one day, which is full of new buildings. It's business and residential district with a lot of restaurants and cafe's. It's unofficially named ,,Mordor" same as on JRR Tolkien books.
Here's a couple more points of interest: Park Skaryszewski - right across the street from the National Stadium Pole Mokotowskie - another fairly large one Górka Szczęśliwicka (once it gets warm, there's a working outdoor rec area with a swimming pool) Służew (specifically: Tor Wyścigów Konnych - equestrian racing track) - a VERY long wall of graffitti. Wilanów, and Las Kabacki (also in Wilanów, if you know where to look, are two riverside beaches - one for when you have your swimsuit with you, and one for when you don't) The Zoo If you like cycling, there are plenty of places to go too.
3:17 - see that football mural? In this block had lived Kazimierz Górski, legendary polish coach ⚽🥇 Olympics Games 1972 🥉 World Cup 1974. On the Street before mural - Lewicka street had lived Tadeusz Mazowiecki, first Polish non communist Prime Minister (1989)
@@paulomontero12 it was rebuilt during communist era, so buildings and urban planing are not really neat, but thanks to that Warsaw has its unique architecture, skyscrapers standing next to commie blocks, next to historic buildings, many people hate it
Earlier you should go to small cities (when you live in Gdansk). But you need to be in the city center all the time ;) You are like old friend. Old friend in a new city. Its really nice that we could walk with you :)
The building with round windows you've seen is Szkoła Główna Handlowa (Main Trade University) as someone said below. The architecture of this building refers to the history as in the begining of the XX century it was all about maritime trade. There is even a ship in the logo of the school. I would recomend you to go to Ursynów district, especially Stokłosy area where you can see a model residential area that was build in 80s. Also there are many nice places along Aleja KEN. And near the last metro station (Kabaty) there is a forrest (5 minutes on foot)
Check out URSYNÓW area. It's a great family area. To get there you need to take the Metro to NATOLIN and have a nice walk to the next Metro station called KABATY. On the way there are lots of shops cafes, a park with a skatepark etc.. and past Kabaty station a forest Called Las Kabacki. A great area if you like to get around by bicycle.
Hi! Great video! Did you miss some food from Kiev, maybe like traditional ukrainian food? I wondered if you could maybe do a review of ukrainian restaurants in Warsaw?
The Łazienki are the most beautiful, but there are a lot of parks in Warsaw, see on the map and they are interesting. Also visit the roof of the library in the Powiśle district (near Wisła river). You were there, but you didn't go to the roof. But you can wait for a week or two when there will be more greenery, because there is a garden on the roof.
I love my Kindle e-reader. So many books on this device, and long battery life. Whichever one I have, I recommend it. I got mine on black Friday like in 2019, and you can do payment plan, and pay in installments. Amazon is all over the world, which is what I don't like about Barnes and Noble tablets.
Mokotów is definitely great! Though I strongly advise you to visit Kraków one day. I moved there a while back to study and my experiences have been nothing but great. Wonderful public transportation (which is important to me being a student), some really amazing restaurants and lots of cultural events (check out Piwnica pod Baranami :)). If I were to recommend anything that would be Kazimierz, the old Jewish town. It has its own absolutely amazing vibe which is similiar to Les Marais in Paris. It's good to see you enjoying Poland, regards!
Well, the spring is coming. It's not immediately noticeable, but your videos get greener every day ;). And they will be for the next couple of weeks. Warsaw seems to be grey and ugly at the first glimpse, but it's the green trees that will make a difference. And there's actually lots of them everywhere.
Hello, I really like your videos. It's easy to understand and I can improve my English. You can say something and it's always interested. Thank you for all. I will be waiting for another videos. Best regards, Your new subscriber from Poland. 😁
I'm wondering what you would say about Wilanów distric, because this is "rich" neighbourhood :D looks very different, no soviet buildings there. I like exploring Warsaw with you, love your vlogs :)
Cool, you guys live in my neighborhood. She's wonderful. I am proud that you like my city. Right next to you is primary school with several dozen students from Ukraine and a welcome class for Ukrainian children who want to learn Polish. Much health for Marina.
I wish more of Classic Warsaw was rebuilt after the war, but I'm glad they've rebuilt as much as they have. Marszałkowska Street used to be so beautiful, look at the pics of before the war. Warsaw still looks nice though, cheers
The word 'samochód' fun fact. At the beginning of the motorisation era there was no proper Polish word for the device. Therefore the press plebiscite was organised. Poles were choosing their favourite name. The two most popular options were samochód (self go) and samojezd (self ride/drive). Finally, samochód sounded better for our ears and so we've got what we've got.
If you like falafel and hummus you can try Mezze on Górny Mokotów (best restaurant with this sort of food in Warsaw). Nerby Mezze there is another nice option Caffe Mozaika (good food and nice interior). Highly recommend you breakfast menu and balkans cevapcici on lunch. If you want to see how students are enjoying here. You can go to Pawilony close to Nowy Świat (prefarably go there on Thursday or Friday evening) ;)
There are lots of animals in Łazienki Royal Park. Apart from squirrels there will be peacocks and other birds. In the little lake you will find those pretty red/orange Japanese carps. Near the Chopin monument there are concerts once a week i believe of live piano music of Chopin. That park is a place to visit in the summer. All free.
I moved to Warsaw from Toronto 13 years ago, and have had the same observations and feelings about the city. Make sure to check out Muranow, and Orgody Krasinskich.
