The City I call home. (Unlike Hemel Hempstead, which is the Town I also call home)
Original YT playout date: 12 September 2010
Duration: 1:56
This is no way to live. There are programs for bringing the Roma into society, and yet they insist on carrying on this way. Are they right? Is this any way for children to be allowed to live, or should we simply stop trying to value judge their societal choices?
Continue reading “Tramatic childhood? – GRT people begging with their music on the tram.”
Original YT playout date: 4 September 2010
Duration: 21:45
One of the hottest days in one of Warsaw’s hottest places. We take the rickshaw out for another run.
Continue reading “Hot Polish Park”
Original YT playout date: 3 September 2010
Duration: 47:58
Wanna walk through Warsaw, with a bit of jolly old-fashioned rantin’ at the same time? Here we go! See the only street in Europe named after a famous Dr Who monster!
Continue reading “More Warsaw Walkiness”
Original YT playout date: 14 August 2010
Duration: 45:28
Here we see what is going on in Krakowskie Przedmiescie, the actions of the right wing group Solidarni 2010 and their demand to have the Smolensk disaster investigated as well as the victims properly remembered.
We see some of the atmosphere as activists engage with people on the streets and enter into discussion with someone who claimed that he was making private comments when as you will see he was de facto, whether he realised in or not, addressing a crowd of about 12-15 people. He asked for his comments not to be viewed as public statements, but that’s fine, because we can keep them just in my group of viewers which probably won’t get over a thousand views a year anyway, which is still pretty private by media standards.
Continue reading “Warsaw’s Cross … Very!”
Original YT playout date: 19 June 2010
Duration: 32:50
Here’s a slice of life in Poland for you. I thought I was walking home from work in nice weather, and then I noticed the horizon getting dark, so I decided to hop on a tram. This tram then rode into the middle of one of the worst storms I ever experienced, rendering it impossible for me to get out at my stop. See what happened after that and watch lightning flash follow lightning flash from a rainblurred Warsaw tram window.
Some 5 miles away, in Ursynow, the residents had 15 minutes between dry ground and knee high water ruining their cars. Nobody had seen the like for over 120 years.
Continue reading “Stuck in Tram during Warsaw Flash Flood”