Mr Coco's English Pub

Mr Coco's English Pub

Mr Coco's English Pub: Lousy food & warm beer. You've got to love a description like that! From a work conference in Amsterdam, 1993 or 1994.

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Café 42, Amsterdam

Café 42, Amsterdam

I like to think that, even if they can't spell "forty" in English, it's a knowing...

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Old & new

Old & new

*Some* of the houses in the Jewish quarter have been restored...

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Menorah

Menorah

A stealthy candelabra

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Kazimierz

Kazimierz

The Jewish quarter's town square is now a tourist area of bars and restaurants

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Synagogue

Synagogue

Though the Jews are almost all gone, life goes on

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Hebrew

Hebrew

Traces of Jewish life from 60 years ago

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Rabbi

Rabbi

There are some modern Jewish people moving back into the area, but the old community is no more

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Gymnasium

Gymnasium

Which, as ani fule kno, means it's the town high school. Well, #3 of them

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Real life

Real life

The streets near my hostel were a bit more what I expected of former Communist East Europe

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Bones

Bones

The bones of the city show through in places. And they're mostly Catholic.

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Kiosk

Kiosk

Even a tobacco stand is decorative

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Corner

Corner

Even working buildings have lovely crinkly edges

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Modernist

Modernist

A rare bit of modern architecture in the Old Town. The louvres shift with the time of day.

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New town

New town

Outside the old town area, the buildings get rather more modern and grimy. I loved the weathering on the sign on the wall here.

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God is watching you

God is watching you

After a spell when it was Big Brother

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Faded glories

Faded glories

Flags outside the town hall

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Beware of the God

Beware of the God

Multiple cloned Jesuses (Jesi?) are kept safely behind a barrier, for public protection.

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