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Post by tufta on Apr 9, 2010 17:01:12 GMT 1
here it is!   |
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 12, 2010 21:30:09 GMT 1
Hmm, I am a little disappointed. ;D ;D ;D ;D I expected sth more modern. ;D ;D ;D ;D Do you know which another place in Warsaw I would like to see with boys this year, when we will have a short stopover there on our way back home from the seaside? If you guess, I will consider you extremely intelligent. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D What place would you recommend us to visit/see? |
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Post by Bonobo on May 15, 2010 20:56:16 GMT 1
Warsaw mounted police to increase ranks
13.05.2010 10:31
9 extra mounted police patrols are to roam the streets of Warsaw thanks to municipal funding, bringing the total number of horses to 23 in the capital.
The horses, Silesian thoroughbreds, are to be trained and will join existing units, which are set to play an important role in the upcoming Euro 2012 football championships next year.
Warsaw mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz praised the four-legged deputies, saying that they can help police gain access to areas difficult to reach by car.
The first mounted police units first patrolled the streets of Warsaw in 1972.
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 25, 2010 9:28:28 GMT 1
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Post by valpomike on Aug 25, 2010 20:01:41 GMT 1
How big is it, how many will it hold, and where is it?
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 29, 2010 22:27:13 GMT 1
How big is it, how many will it hold, and where is it? Mike It can hold 31.000 fans and it is probably behind this fence:  |
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 29, 2010 22:29:08 GMT 1
here it is! Save Frog legs! Stop the French frog-eaters! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by tufta on Aug 30, 2010 8:17:44 GMT 1
How big is it, how many will it hold, and where is it? Mike It can hold 31.000 fans and it is probably behind this fence: Bo , isn't that the new National Stadium sprayed by Legia fans? |
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 30, 2010 18:51:18 GMT 1
Bo , isn't that the new National Stadium sprayed by Legia fans? Nope. I took this photo in 2007 on our school trip. |
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Post by tufta on Aug 30, 2010 19:12:48 GMT 1
So maybe that is the in spe new National Stadium sprayed by Legia fans?
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 30, 2010 20:37:52 GMT 1
So maybe that is the in spe new National Stadium sprayed by Legia fans? I drove past the construction site this year and didn`t see anything like that. |
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 7, 2010 17:23:25 GMT 1
Remember, I had planned to go by Warsaw underground/subway during holidays. But judging from my NYC experience, I thought I would be able to enter the underground and stay there as long as I wish, changing trains and directions. When I learnt it is impossible in Warsaw metro, I gave up. Faking scrooges - they require a new token/ticket for each direction!
Poetry on Warsaw metro
07.09.2010 10:56
Warsaw’s metro system has began a three-week project aimed at bringing poetry closer to the man-in-the-street has been launched in Warsaw.
The special guest at the opening ceremony on Monday was the Icelandic poet, writer and musician Bragi Olafsson, a former bass player with Bjork’s Sugarcubes.
The programme of the Warsaw project includes displays poems on the trains and stations but also includes exhibitions, competitions, happenings and city games.
Poems by authors from 16 countries are featured this year, with work by poets from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Sweden.
The dominant themes are the city and the European Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
A festival of slam – a competitive combination of poetry and music - will bring together Laura Wihlborg from Sweden, Tatiana Daniliyants from Russia, Stefan Abermann from Austria, Keith Jarret from the U.K., Claus Ankersen from Denmark, Stephen James Smith from Ireland and Leandro Morgado from Portugal.
The organizers of the project, held in Warsaw for the third time, have been inspired by similar events in Dublin, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Stuttgart, Moscow and London. In London, the tradition of ‘Poems on the Underground’ goes back to 1986.
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 24, 2010 21:39:35 GMT 1
Tufta, do you support your city`s mayor?:  Why? Why not?
Poll - incumbent Warsaw president way out in front
If a new opinion poll is to be believed then the incumbent president of Warsaw has nothing to fear from the announcement yesterday by Law and Justice that they are putting forward non-party member Czeslaw Bielecki to challenge for control of the capital in local elections on 21 November.
The poll by Gfk Polonia finds that Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz will receive 57 percent of the vote in the local election in Warsaw. Czeslaw Bielecki - who said that it was time to rid the capital of partisan politics yesterday - would gain just 12 percent of the votes.
"I hope that this result is an expression of the satisfaction of the inhabitants of Warsaw with my work," Gronkiewicz-Waltz told Dziennik.pl.
With two months still to go before polling day in the local elections - which will give a pointer to results in the general election which will be held in Poland probably in the first half of next year - other candidates in the race for the capital are all on or below five percent support, including right winger Janusz Korwin- Mikke, Democratic Left Alliance’s Wojciech Olejniczak, social democrat Marek Borowski and former president of Warsaw Pawel Piskorski. |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 1, 2010 20:49:41 GMT 1
Warsaw metro construction halted due to WW II ruins
30.09.2010 13:32
The construction of the second line of the Warsaw Metro system has been suspended due to the discovery of ruins of pre-WW II buildings.
“Metro workers found remains of several buildings at Daszynskiego roundabout,” says Warsaw art conservator Ewa Nekanda-Trepka.
Much of Warsaw was destroyed by the Nazis as they retreated after years of occupation and battles with Polish Home army fighters.
Warsaw Metro authorities assure however that no matter how long archaeologists search the area, the investment will be ready on time. “There will be no delays,” says Krzysztof Malawko, spokesman for the Warsaw Metro.
The construction of the second West-East line was scheduled for EURO 2012 but due to the lack of financial sources it is expected to be finished only in 2016. The central section of the line should be ready in 2013). The cost of the entire West-East line is estimated at 4.1 billion zloty (970 million euro).
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 2, 2010 22:37:43 GMT 1
Tufta, will you vote for Bielecki, the PiS candidate for Warsaw mayor position? I watched the interview and my impression is that if he ran for the mayor of Krakow, I would do everything to keep him away from ruling. Fanatic! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D www.tvn24.pl/11617,1,kropka_nad_i.html |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 5, 2010 20:45:45 GMT 1
Warsaw gears up for free Wi-Fi
05.10.2010 13:00
Warsaw’s free internet wireless network is set to grow in the coming weeks after its initial success in August.
Currently, the network is operational in Warsaw’s Old Town and Krakowskie Przedmiescie, and is served by 13 transmitters.
A further 11 Wi-Fi transmitters are to be installed by the Warsaw University Library and along the entirety of Nowy Swiat street.
The network, which is capable of speeds up to 450 kb/s and handling up to 1,000 users simultaneously, is set to grow next year in the vicinity of the National Stadium, a prerequisite set by UEFA ahead of the Euro 2012 tournament.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 15, 2010 21:40:55 GMT 1
UEFA chief on whirlwind visit to Poland
14.10.2010 11:12
Michel Platini has come to Warsaw for an update on Polish preparations to the EURO 2012 football tournament.
His brief stay in the capital included a visit to the construction site of the National Stadium together with sports minister Adam Giersz and National Football Association chief Grzegorz Lato.
In discussions with Polish organisers of the European football championships, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine, the UEFA president voiced satisfaction with progress to date. Asked by journalists about any reservations regarding the matter, Platini said they were totally minor, not worth mentioning in public.
Michel Platini had also to examined the overall picture of preparations from a bird’s eye view, flying over Warsaw in a helicopter accompanied by Poland’s head of state Bronislaw Komorowski.Platini made two remarks after his helicopter flight over Warsaw: 1. The city is full of greenery. 2. There are a lot of building sites. I can agree with both: 
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Post by valpomike on Oct 16, 2010 1:55:29 GMT 1
They did pick the best place for this SOCCER games.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 27, 2010 21:25:14 GMT 1
Warsaw main seat of learning in Poland
27.10.2010 13:20
Warsaw University
Warsaw remains Poland’s largest academic hub, followed by Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań and Lublin, shows a study run by the Central Statistical Office.
The top five seats of learning generally account for over 43 percent of all the country’s students, over a half of them attending full-time studies.
The Central Statistical Office has stressed that the number of schools of higher education has been on the rise since 2000. At the same time, however, the total number of students has dropped in the last two years, while the alumni figures have continued to increase.
This trend may be attributed to demographic shifts contributing to lower intake of students nationwide, coinciding with the last representatives of the demographic peak graduating at this time.
Up to 70 percent of the students frequented 131 state higher education establishments, with the remaining 30 percent studying at a total 330 private institutions in Poland.
The study has also revealed that the interest in humanities, social studies and IT has been gradually diminishing to the advantage of fields such as health and social welfare, alongside architecture and construction. Meanwhile, economy and administration-oriented faculties remain the most popular course.
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 6, 2010 23:36:55 GMT 1
Bicycle – fastest way of commuting in Warsaw
29.10.2010 15:02
A race conducted by the Life without Traffic Jams” campaign has showed that the fastest way to get to work in Warsaw during the rush hour is by bike.
Racing driver Maciej Wislawski, Polish motorcycling champion Mateusz Korobacz and Olympic Games cyclist Jacek Bodyk raced from the Bialoleka suburb to the Palace of Science and Culture in the centre of Warsaw, crossing a bridge on the Vistula River on the way.
The contestants set off at 8.10 CET this morning. The winner turned out to be the cyclist who covered the distance in less than 33 minutes.
Both the racing driver and the motorcyclist reached the destination point almost at the same time - in 37 minutes. A combined journey by bus and underground took over an hour.
The same test conducted on a shorter distance showed similar results: a cyclist reached the destination point in 13 minutes, a person travelling by bus in 32 minutes and a walker in 54 minutes.
“We wanted to show the way to deal with traffic jams and what happens if we decide to switch a car for a bike,” said Dariusz Wilk, organizer of the campaign.
A survey on transport habits conducted by the same campaign in September in Warsaw among 387 drivers (205 men and 182 women) showed that as many as 85 percent of Varsovians travel by car and 12 percent with just one passenger.
Residents of remote districts of the capital such as Wawer or Ursus spent on average an hour and 20 minutes to drive to work. On average a resident of Warsaw spends eight hours a week commuting
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Post by valpomike on Nov 7, 2010 15:06:36 GMT 1
I once was offered a ride to school, well in high school, and I told the person, I would walk since I was in a hurry.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 1, 2010 22:15:31 GMT 1
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz has been sworn in as President of Warsaw after winning the first round in local elections on 21 November outright.
The ceremony followed the inaugural session of the new City Council.
Her re-election was backed by 53.67 percent of the capital’s voters.
The Civic Platform (PO) candidate secured a second term in the first round at the polls with a decisive victory over her main opponent, Czeslaw Bielecki supported by the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) who received 23.16 percent of the vote.
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 27, 2011 20:56:03 GMT 1
Warsaw to have first Polish Orthodox church in 100 years
27.09.2011 13:02
Poland's capital will soon have its first new Eastern Orthodox church in one hundred years.
Archbishop Sawa of Warsaw, who is head of the Orthodox Church throughout Poland, hopes that construction will begin next year in the southern Urysnow district.
The archbishop's office has revealed that the design will be modelled on the famed Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) in Istanbul, formerly an Eastern Orthodox Cathedral before the Byzantine Empire was overrun in 1453, The cathedral was the turned into a mosque, and had minarets added, and then was later made into a museum.
Nevertheless, the archbishop's secretary, Father Jerzy Doroszkiewicz has emphasized that the structure will be considerably smaller in scale.
The number of Orthodox believers in the capital has been growing in recent years, necessitating need to build a new house of worship.
It is currently estimated that there are about 30,000 to 40,000 Varsovians affiliated to the Orthodox rite. In the whole of Poland, official figures from the Central Statistical Office (GUS) put the numbers at 506,800.
Two Orthodox houses of worship currently exist in the city. An imposing cathedral once stood in the centre of the capital on Saski Square. However, after Poland regained its independence in 1918, it was torn down as a symbol of Russian rule.
Several proposals have been mooted over the last two years, as regards the location of the new house of worship. However, clashes with other projects, or a lack of suitable infrastructure, caused those plans to fall by the wayside.
However, the archbishop's office is confident that the current option – which has not provoked any problems - will bear fruit. The plot, which covers about half a hectare is currently owned by the city.
“The land is not ours yet,” Father Doroszkiewicz noted, but he is optimistic “that the decision regarding its transference will be made by the end of the year.” 
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