˚.⋆⁺₊☀︎⁺₊ Warsaw Trip ₊⁺☀︎₊⁺⋆.˚

 Last Wednesday, I took a solo trip to Warsaw, here are some of the moments that made it memorable.

I arrived around 9 AM and meet with a friend. We went for a sweet breakfast. It was absolutely delicious, but also very sugary!

I visited the Botanical Garden of the University of Warsaw. Even though it is early spring, I found it very delightful to see the plants start to bloom again.

I also love photographing nature, there is something calming in it. I am still learning, but here are my two best shots:

And just look at those cuties! \/

Right next to the garden there is the Royal Baths Park. I walked in through the gate and the first thing that met me was a squirrel, that came up to me, leaned agaist my leg, looked at me and ran away. I relly regret I did not bring any nuts with me.

The Park was really nice, but not something that touched me deeply. The amphitheater though looked great. It is stylizes as an ruined, ancient Greek amphitheater. I was just turning to leave when I saw a peacock on the stage. He really looked like he thought of himself as the main star, and he surely was. Absolute diva.

Then came the highlight of my trip - the National Museum. I chose two galleries - Ancient Art and 19th Century Art. Trust me when i tell you that I walked through th Gallery of Ancient Art like a child, absolutely stunned to see all those things in real life. From old, everyday use things, through sculptures from Ancient Rome and Stones with Cuniform writing to a real mummy!

The Galler of 19th Century Art was fabulous! I mostly went there, because lately I was interested in women's clothing from the Romantic period, so I wanted so see some original paintings from that time. I also saw a painting of Adam Mickiewicz (national poet in Poland) and few paintings from Jan Matejko, including The Battle of Grunwald, which is a huge work (it is 4 meters tall and 10 meters wide).

Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz on the Ayu-Dag Cliff
by Walenty Wańkowicz

Battle of Grunwald
by Jan Matejko
Source: Wikipedia.org

I took quite a lot of pictures of women's clothing, but I will write another post about it when I will know more on the topic.

Embroiderer

by Georg Friedrich Kersting

I bought a few postcards to hang on my wall and a notebook from the National Museum, but you will see it in one of the next posts.

On Thursday I went to Theater Collegium Nobilium to see six short operas based on Fables for Robots by Stanisław Lem. It was actually just two stories each one repeated three times, but directed by different people. It was a very interesting experience to see the same stories said in different ways in completely different visions.

When I was going back to my hometown I bought myself a Starbucks coffee, a trdition of mine when I go to Warsaw. And I said goodbye to the capital of Poland.

Hope you have a delightful day ⋆˙⟡