Random January photos from Warsaw

Just some random snaps to show how glitzy and rich Warsaw has become. Below: Plac Grzybowski, looking west towards Aleja Jana Pawła II. A scene unrecognisable from pre-EU accession times. The investment has poured in, as have the jobs. Quality jobs.

Below: ul. Próżna, just around the corner from my office. Once a street of ruins, a street that had survived the destruction of the Ghetto almost intact but was in a dreadful state by the late 1990s.

Below: I wrote about last month's opening of the S2 expressway tunnel under Ursynów, which now effectively allows transit traffic to pass through Warsaw without encountering any traffic lights. This new ad, just west of Węzeł Lotnisko, the S2/S79 [and future S7] junction, is for an eaterie on the other side of the tunnel (actually 8km away and 1km off the S2). A bit more info (such as opening hours) would be useful.

Below: completed and opened last year, the new Ferrari showroom on ul. Wirażowa is immediately suggestive of a wealthy population. Work started in 2018, testament to how rapidly Warsaw was rising in international rankings of wealth. Before moving here, Ferrari's Warsaw showroom was housed (somewhat symbolically) in the former building of the central committee of the Polish communist party, the PZPR.

Fossil-fuel-powered trappings of wealth are not for me - I'd rather spend the cash on domestic comforts and doing up the działka (and maybe another classic motorbike?)

This time two years ago:
The Inequality Paradox: pt.2

This time three years ago
Jakubowizna in mid-winter

This four years ago:
Warm winter's day in Jakubowizna

This time five years ago:
Seeking an aesthetic in the Grim

This time six years ago:
UK overtakes France as the World's 5th Biggest Economy 

This time eight years ago:
Ice in the Vistula

This time 12 years ago:
A consolation to my British readers

This time 13 years ago:
Winter in its finery

The time 14 years ago:
Snow fences keep the trains running