Warsaw

I came to the Capital in 2003. All the time I thought that my stay in Warsaw is temporary and soon I will stop being a JAR i.e. I will return to Łódź. In the spring of 2013, I still thought so. At the time, I lived near the Saxon Garden and often went for a walk there. When I went for a walk again one day, I noticed not my thought in my head: I CAN NOT FUNCTION NORMALLY AND FEEL NORMAL WHEN I DO NOT SEE THIS CITY.

I remember exactly the moments when I first entered various PLACES in Warsaw, which I did not know before: Bank Square, Three Crosses Square, Starynkiewicz Square, Dabrowski Square, Grzybowski Square, Wilson Square, Lublin Union Square. I didn’t know what “Lady Pank” was singing about: “… full of streets, SQUARES, trees.” In Warsaw, I also see what I could only read about once. K. Przerwa-Tetmajer at the end of his life settled in the Bristol Hotel, bought him a lifetime stay in one apartment probably count.

When I was once in Bristol as a kind of “from the kitchen”, I inquired – fascinated at school Young Poland – where is this room. Hotel Bristol is one of the most beautiful buildings in Poland: I invite you to visit and these squares. And Tetmajer’s room ….