Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Love the tree table. Two chairs and a table sharing legs. Ric > On Oct 4, 2025, at 11:40?AM, Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > Kielce is a rather sleepy town of 200,000 people almost midway between > Warsaw and Krak?w. It is most famous, or rather infamous, for a pogrom on > Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in 1946 which killed about 40 people. > That nasty history is acknowledged today. But besides, Kielce is a > pleasant enough town. It is not a place visited by tourists from abroad; > such visitors go to Warsaw or the other big cities like Krak?w, Wroc?aw or > Gda?sk. The only places I saw signs in English or German were the central > train station and the bus station. Otherwise, the only foreign language I > heard in the street was Ukrainian, a reflection of the huge number of > Ukrainian refugees in Poland. > > In late September I made my third visit to Kielce; as on the other two > occasions I was there to speak at a weeklong event on intellectual > property arranged by the local technical university in a nearby village > called Cedzyna. During this trip, I saw some of the same places as last > year, but also many new spots, including (surprisingly) the bus station, a > great example of Communist-era architecture which was actually quite > good?perhaps because architecture was an easier outlet for creative people > than writing or music, since there was less for censors to spot ?deviant? > tendencies. > > So, 50 photos from Kielce and surroundings are here: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce-September-2025 > > As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > @nwajsman.bsky.social > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information