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Warsaw the Phoenix - The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Bridge (Most Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie, formerly North Bridge)

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                         Just to say I was one of the very first cars to cross the new Maria Skłodowska-Curie Bridge ( Most Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie , formerly North Bridge) on Sunday March 25th 2012 when it first opened to motor vehicles. This engineering project was incredibly complex (one of the largest in the EU and the most complex intersection design in Warsaw). Despite all the dramas of naming (in true Polish style!) everyone involved is to be congratulated. Full detailed information and technical links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sk%C5%82odowska-Curie_Bridge,_Warsaw The car is my concours 1949 MG TC which I have affectionately tended at ruinous expense, intense frustration but much joy for many years now. Properly registered as a classic car in Poland but still on 'proper' English plates as I prefer the classic look of them to the ghastly yellow Polish ones with silly toy veteran car embossed ...  My 1949 MG TC - one of first cars to

Poland Pictured

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The Napoleonic Fortress of Modlin at the confluence of the Vistula and Narew rivers close to Warsaw Officers exchanging vital tactical intelligence at a re-enactment of the Napoleonic Battle of Raszyn 1809 At the re-enactment of the Napoleonic Battle of Pultusk 1806 Officers at leisure before the Napoleonic Battle of Pultusk 1806 Some of my other photographs of the country, unfortunately not included in my book on Poland  A Country in the Moon are available on my website at: http://www.michael-moran.net/pages/poland/photos.htm [For those of you who are interested in such matters, they are mostly non-digital photographs I shot with my non-electronic Nikon F2 with the old Nikon lenses. These days I use a digital Leica more often than the F2. However I feel the 'painterly' quality of landscape and subject cannot be convincingly or adequately created through the Adobe or Capture One processing of digital images. It is so difficult to rep