Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Polytechnika

Again, this is one that I'm inviting you to correct if the location is wrong.

Again, if the location needs correction....correct it, please!!

Again, another guess, possibly wrong, about the location.

As on the last shot, I may have the location of this wrong. If I do, please correct me!

Here's another shot taken, I think, from Polytechnika or somewhere nearby.

Here's one of the, in contrast to the trams, very modern tram shelters. I'm not sure which church that is in the background, but that would be another thing to look up.

Here's another shot of one of those old and narrow Warsaw trams. I'd really like to learn more about these, as I already said.

I'm kicking myself for how little research I did into Poland before I left, as with more time spent in preparation I'm sure I could have seen more things and written more interesting and informative photo captions. :-) Buutttt.....it was one of those trips where I had little choice but to plan it in a hurry, with all of my work in Prague eating up my time. One of the things that I'm going to have to do in the coming week or two is to find out more about these trams so that I can give you more info on the classes of them. This was taken at the Polytechnika stop.

I took this to contrast the older architecture with the new in Warsaw. Although the old town was levelled in World War II, the rest of the city sustained varying degrees of damage, and the Polytechnika (I'm assuming that's the Polytechnic school) is one of the older buildings that made it out in one piece (or perhaps was rebuilt). The buildings next to it, however, apparently didn't survive, and those ugly Communist buildings replaced them.