Mucha and Aida

We enjoyed a cultural weekend with a trip to the National Gallery to see a Mucha exhibition and then to the National Opera on Sunday to see Aida.

The Mucha exhibition opened recently in Warsaw. One of my English students thinks that it is probably one of the largest and most significant exhibitions of this type to ever visit Poland.

Mucha was Czech, but lived for much of his life as a starving artist in Paris. He became famous designing posters, especially those for the actress Sarah Bernhardt. We both really enjoyed this exhibition - if you want to know more go to; Read more about Mucha

On Sunday we went to watch the opera Aida. It was an excellent production and was certainly a spectacle with nearly 150 people on stage at one point. Obviously the opera was performed in Italian but they did have Polish subtitles - which was useful for Amy at least(!)

again, see Aida in Warsaw if you're interested...

We had huge storms on Saturday and Sunday evening. Amy suggested that at one point Ul. Bukowinska (the dubiously cobbled street running outside our apartment) was probably only navigable by canoe!

Amy's tummy has also grown a fair bit in the past week. Interestingly mine has too, but mostly methinks down to the pączkis (a type of Polish doughnut) which I eat whenever I take an English class in town! (see-that's another useful Polish word I've learnt!)