Admiring the Night Views of Warsaw

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My wife and I were privileged to pay another visit to Warsaw. This time it was thanks to the IOM that operates in Siedlce and in whose project I am taking part. We were invited to a meeting with other participants of the project, who are staying in Warsaw. The meeting took place over dinner at a nice hotel in downtown Warsaw.

We had some time before the start of the meeting. The streets looked very attracting at night, I managed to take a couple of pictures. We went window shopping at the Golden Terraces, a well-known shopping mall, which we had intended to visit for a long time, but each time had been in a hurry to see some amazing sights in the Old City.

As it turns out, the Golden Terraces (“Złote Tarasy” in Polish) house not only a shopping mall, but also office spaces and a hotel. This mega mall is known all over Poland for its ultramodern wavy glass ceiling that accentuates the cosy lighting and the space style.

We were impressed by the hanging figures consisting of beautiful lights. We passed the 8-screen multiplex movie theatre. Here and there you can see restaurants and cafes, whose total number is said to be over 200, making it a great day out for the family.

Many of our Ukrainian acquaintances staying in Siedlce believe that due to beautiful illuminations Warsaw is even nicer at night than at daytime. We have visited Warsaw at daytime before, and it was a lot of fun visiting the city at night. In winter time it gets dark early, therefore, when we arrived to Warsaw (4 p.m.) it was already dark outside.

We walked along Jerusalem Avenue and, thanks to Google Maps, turned to Marshalkowska Street. One more street separated us from our meeting point at the hotel. While walking along the evening streets, we saw that there was no problem in finding posh eateries and glamorous nightclubs around, as well as down-at-heel clubs and bars in the evening streets of downtown Warsaw.
We are not much of thrill-seekers and are merely happy to pay a visit to this or that park or square and to explore it.

We came in time to our meeting point - Hotel Mercure Warszawa Grand ****, a part of the Mercure Hotels network, a had some time to explore the hotel lobby. The hotel has a friendly staff, a nice lobby with a homey atmosphere, an art exhibition of students’ works in the lobby, a stylish décor and a Christmas Tree. I also saw a wine shop and a company wine bottle.

We looked at the art exhibition that included the works of school students from two schools:

• The Complex of Tourist and Gastronomic Schools in Mińsk Mazowiecki is a post-primary school consisting of a Technical School and a 1st Degree Vocational School. Currently, the school educates 667 students in the following professions in the Technical School: nutrition and catering services technician with dietetics, hotel management technician with business services organization, food technology technician – confectioner, waitress services technician, landscape architecture technician, tourism technician with free time animation and a cook – at the 1st Degree Vocational School. As part of practical vocational training, students complete one-day internships with employers each week of study and monthly internships in the country and abroad.

• Czesław Nowak Technical and Vocational School Complex in Radzymin is a school where young people are educated in a Vocational Technical School in the following fields: landscape architecture technician, catering and catering services technician, food technology technician, IT technician and programming technician. Currently, the school is attended by 650 students. The students of all professions take part in practical classes in school workshops, and are sent to employers in Poland and abroad annually for professional internships as part of EU projects. The beginnings of the school are related to the activities of the Order of Dolorists, whose task was to take care of young people by preparing them for a profession and independent life in the society.

Before our dinner started, our IOM pertners focused on the project, ad we talked to each other in the form of a psychological game conducted by the IOM psychologist.

The dinner itself consisted of three dishes: a soup, the main course and the desert. Many thanks, dear partners!

This featured blog entry was written by Vic_IV from the blog Our Stay in Poland.
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