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Two days of Warsaw. Tuesday

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So I had less than a week of vacation left, no return tickets and remains of vague plans to maybe go see some other places. It turned out, though, that I was too tired to grab my things and go to the airport right that minute , so I decided to stay in Warsaw for a couple more days. And then go straight home. I started with the plac Zamkowy, of course. Since the day before, I think of it with warmth and a bit of nostalgia, as of place where we performed. Besides, it's really beautiful. About two thirds of Piwna ("Beer") street. Or maybe more, or less. As I've been told later, there was still place enough for eight breweries, and a church and a hospital, where people went after, depending on their condition. The pigeons sculpture. The legend says that an old woman, one of the first to return to the ruins of the house after the war, used to feed pigeons. However strange it may have looked in a destroyed city, it gave her a sense that life was coming back (t