Warsaw 3

Palace Art

After the Royal bedrooms was a room family room of sorts. 

They probably didn’t have a pet lion, but they probably wished they had one. 


Some of the major paintings had acrylic reliefs, for unspecified reasons.


A private dining room, I think.

The next room had a fine collection of artifacts, like these Etruscan urns. 







Then we got a very short dash through an upstairs gallery of paintings, with no time to look, but just snap pictures and run. There was a schedule to keep. So excuse the glare.

Beautiful drapery work. 

The fatal heel

One of those ubiquitous copies or near copies of Italian Renaissance master works. 

Small Dutch landscapes

To be continued, with sculptures and more…..

Warsaw 2

Inside the Palace

A drawing room



In a ceremonial room

In a hall going from the ceremonial room to the Royal bedrooms

Display of old Roman artifacts in a hallway

A small gallery room 

A door to a chapel room

Someone important died in this room, so it was turned into a chapel.

An antechamber 

King’s bedroom 

Queen’s bedroom 

Palace, to be continued…..

To Warsaw

Business/Not Business

    Each summer BetterHalf’s company staff takes a summer excursion. This year, being the 25th Anniversary of the company, the trip was more special. It was a day trip to Warsaw. Why there? you ask. Other options were floated, but this was a city the principals hadn’t been to, so, why not? The rest of the office staff didn’t know where they were going until they got their tickets at the airport. Surprise! 

    The day turned out to have lovely weather, a great tour guide, and a beautiful place to see. We started with a sumptuous very early breakfast in the VIP lounge. 

In Warsaw we got a van to take us to the sights on our tour, first stop being the former royal palace. 

Always note the sewer covers.

All the many gardens and parks we saw were meticulously kept. 

The palace was built on the model of Versailles, as was typical of the time. 

Your guess is as good as anyone’s…..

To be continued, inside…..

Brittany

Corrected 

I got the places wrong in the two previous posts. These here are actually in Brittany. 

And now you know what Brittany looks like.