Lit-Up for New Year's Eve

 A sign complementing a specific suburb of Warsaw lit-up for New Year's Eve:

This sign has been lit-up all over Christmas, a good touch, just trying to make people feel a bit better.

My Vegetarian Pasta Dish

Was pretty pleased with how my vegetarian pasta dish turned out:

It was made from a jar of spaghetti sauce; gluten-free pasta; and simmered potatoes, carrots, broccoli, and courgette, but the magical part was threading a spicy beetroot cutlet into the dish.

Kotek's Chewed Boxes

In eastern Poland, Kotek likes to chew and customise cardboard boxes so that he can sleep in them comfortably:

Love the aerial shot below which shows how Kotek adopts a fetal position in a box:

A Good Polish Regional Beer

This is currently my favourite Polish beer, it has the magical formula of being a lager that tastes like a bitter, and has some substance being 6% alcohol:

Have just read that this beer is made by the Cornelius Sulimar brewery in Piotrków Trybunalski, a town of just over 70,000 inhabitants in central Poland. 

I think that the town and brewery can be very proud of this beer, it's wonderful.

Two Christmas Nativity Scenes

Two Christmas Nativity Scenes in Warsaw, Poland, starting with a traditional one outside a church:

This one was perched between two Christmas trees:

The second one was round a corner inside a church I was attending for the old Latin Mass today:

As can be seen, this Nativity Scene is made from dolls in a kind of folk style, with Poles in traditional costumes standing in front of the Holy Family and visiting Magi (just about visible on the right).

Warsaw: Copernicus Statue at Christmas

Loved the theatrical effect that the Christmas decorations give next to and around the Copernicus statue on Krakowskie Przedmieście in central Warsaw:

Warsaw: Passing St. Andrew's Church

Walked past the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle recently:

This church lies across from the National Theatre and Opera building(s) in central Warsaw, but it can be easily missed.

Inside, the church looks very bare, Vatican II-style, but just outside the building, there is a crucifix in front of a wall dedication to the late Cardinal Glemp:

Think that the sculptured head below may be in honour of the late Pope John Paul II:

With the wall dedication below definitely being in his honour: