Winter's week pictorial round-up

Snaps from this week. Below: taken from around half-way up Warsaw Financial Center, in the distance cranes and a new tower begins to rise above the skyline - this will be Varso Tower, the EU's tallest building. By this time next year, it should be nearing full height...

The pedestrian underpass under the elegant Al. Ujazdowskie used to be full of little shops selling books and paintings, food and clothes. All gone now. The toilets have gone too. In their place, vandalised walls and the stench of urine. A shame.

Below: after the punch-up, W-wa Zachodnia, the passage between the railway station and the bus station.

Below: east of the Vistula. The old mural adverts from the PRL still there. Construction work on the new street linking ul. Zamoście and Targowa finished last July, the street remains unopened. The chances of Jeziorki's viaduct being finished but unopened for months are high.

Below: ul. Frycza-Modzelewskiego, just outside W-wa Wschodnia station has recently been modernised with a decent road surface replacing mud. Right-bank Warsaw is quickly improving.

Below: meanwhile in Jeziorki, we're not so lucky - wading through mud to get to the station whenever its rainy - and it's been this way for nearly two and half years.

Below: an oil train on the coal train line, a Lotos-livered diesel loco heads a rake of cisterns passes W-wa Jeziorki station. Note the viaduct in the background.

Below: moon and Orion over Jeziorki

Below: Palace of Culture, with ul. Świętokrzyska in the foreground, Christmas lights still ablaze.

This time four years ago:
UK migration and the NHS

This time seven years ago:
Miserable depths of winter

This time eight years ago:
From - a short story (Part 1)

This time nine years ago:
A month until Lent starts

This time ten years ago:
World's biggest airliner over Poland

This time 11 years ago:
More pre-Lenten thoughts