Backpacking the Cool Globes and Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw

Posted: August 13, 2024

More Off-The-Wall backpacking in Warsaw with the Cool Globes and the former power station, Elektrownia Powiśle.

Trevor Warman and Jonny Blair at the Cool Globes in Warsaw, Poland

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 Dont Stop Living, at the Mermaid's Statue (Pomnik Syreny nad Wisłą):

Trevor Warman and Jonny Blair at the Warsaw Mermaid in Poland

We backpacked the Cool Globes, or as Jonny likes to call it, The Street of Globes (even if it involves 2 streets):

Nomadic Backpacker at the Cool Globes in Warsaw, Poland

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:

Nomadic Backpacker at Elektrownia Powisle and Vita Cafe with the globe

Jonny Blair at the Elektrownia Powilse in Warsaw

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 things we saw:

The Euronet ATM:

EuroNet ATM at the Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw

The control gear inside the Biedronka supermarket (which is the best discount supermarket in Poland):

inside the Biedronka Supermarket at Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw

The entrance to the toilets:

Entrance to the toilets at Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw

Even the seats:

Themed seats at Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw

Control gear at Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw

inside the Elektrownia Powiśle shopping mall in Warsaw

The Vita Cafe at the Elektrownia Powiśle (and one of the many Green Caffè Nero in Warsaw) were my favourite cafe to get some blogging done (unless you are a blogger, you won't understand the amount of work involved in getting these posts up):

Nomadic Backpacker blogging at the Vita cafe in Warsaw

Nomadic Backpacker blogging at the Green Caffe Nero in Warsaw

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