Wroclaw

I was looking around a little bit and found my pictures of Wroclaw. Even though though this was the first place we went in Poland and they should have been posted first, better late than never.

The city was very beautiful and the buildings were colorful. This was a big change from Ukraine where colors are usually much more dull and buildings are often old and not well taken care of.



It was common in the squares and even along the side streets for buildings to be brightly colored like this.




I don't know how it got there, but that teddy bear was sitting there all by himself as people walked by. Somehow he lost his family, how sad.

There were statues of dwarfs like this all over the city. The dwarfs were originally a symbol of a protest group called the Orange Alternative which protested the communist government. Today the dwarfs commemorate these protests and are a fun tourist attraction. (The dwarf is on the left and my mom is on the right).