Backpacking the Cool Globes and Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw
Posted: August 13, 2024 | Tagged: Poland
More Off-The-Wall backpacking in Warsaw with the Cool Globes and the former power station, Elektrownia Powiśle.
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Cool Globes was a project designed to increase awareness of global warming.
First founded in 2007 in Chicago by Wendy Abrams, an environmentalist and social activist, Cool Globes came to Warsaw in 2016 with many of the globes on Bulwary Wiślane, down by the Vistula River.
Now, there are just 8 of them on Leszczyńska with a further 2 on Dobra Street.
So having met up with Jonny Blair of DontStopLiving, at the Mermaid's Statue (Pomnik Syreny nad Wisłą):
First founded in 2007 in Chicago by Wendy Abrams, an environmentalist and social activist, Cool Globes came to Warsaw in 2016 with many of the globes on Bulwary Wiślane, down by the Vistula River.
Now, there are just 8 of them on Leszczyńska with a further 2 on Dobra Street.
So having met up with Jonny Blair of DontStopLiving, at the Mermaid's Statue (Pomnik Syreny nad Wisłą):
...we backpacked the Cool Globes, or as Jonny likes to call it, The Street of Globes (even if it involves 2 streets):
There is a bonus globe, inside the Elektrownia Powiśle, the former power station, where there are shops and bars with lots of quirky power station memorabilia:
So if Nowa Huta is the Polish Milton Keynes, Manafaktura in Lodz is the Polish Digbeth (Birmingham), Elektrownia Powiśle is the Polish Battersea Power Station. Just to give you some idea.
Here are some of the crazy stuff we saw:
The Euronet ATM:
Here are some of the crazy stuff we saw:
The Euronet ATM:
The control gear inside the Biedronka supermarket (which is the best discount supermarket in Poland):
The entrance to the toilets:
Even the seats:
Vita Cafe at the Elektrownia Powiśle (and one of the many Green Caffè Nero in Warsaw) were my favourite cafes to get some blogging done (unless you are a blogger, you won't understand the amount of work involved in getting these posts up):
