Young Chopin in Warsaw (Episodes 1 & 2)



How time runs away.....I made these amusing films 4 years ago ! 
As Spring erupts in Poland I thought this a charming tonic in the face of ghastly world events

You may like to wander the streets of Warsaw with me in the footsteps of young Chopin before he left Poland on 2 November 1830 never to return


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