Circling through Poland - with a bit of Germany thrown in.

OZDUCK · 2025-11-10T15:24:09+1100

And to finish off Wroclaw a few more 'dwarves'.

The first one was created in 2001 - Papa Dwarf

Outside a pharmac_

Not hard to guess

For the guitar lovers

Celebrating the Polish Constitution of 1997.

The Lions Clubs

UNICEF Accreditation

Outside a jewellers.

This is just a small selection

OZDUCK · 2025-11-10T21:19:11+1100

I thoroughly enjoyed Wroclaw and could happily have spent a few more days there. We now headed off to Berlin via the 'back roads'. The train took a pretty convoluted route through a number of smaller towns on low speed lines before joining the main line just before we crossed over the Oder River into Germany.

The morning of our departure was very foggy. This photo was taken after it had lifted a fair bit.

Some from inside the station. It really has some pretty areas.

A local train

Straw bailing time

Corn field

This very Germanic looking tower caught our eyes in the city of Legnica. This was the former German city of Liegnitz - its population was around 97% ethnic German in 1910. After WW2 the remaining German population was expelled and replaced with Polish settlers mostly from the eastern parts of Poland that had been 'ceded' to the USSR.

"Originally built as the city gas works and ammonium tower - after 1945 converted to be a water tower. Back in the hands of the national gas company the tower is used as a workshop and storage area while the old gas works building as a climbing wall."

OZDUCK · 2025-11-10T21:44:24+1100

The city of Lubin . Formerly Luben - it suffered the same fate as Legnica except for suffering from more war damage and experiencing atrocities from both sides of the conflict.