Orchestra of the city of Krakow

Last year, when I visited Krakow, Poland, I went to see a performance by the Orchestra of the city of Krakow. I have never been to any of these shows or concerts before even though I am a big fan of classical music. Tickets were cheap and my evening was free, why not I said to myself. I do not regret it. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard. I am no judge when it comes to music but in my opinion they were flawless. It was simply beautiful to say the least. It took place at St. Peter and Paul Church, which is beautiful by the way and lasted about an hour and I enjoyed it from start to finish. I could listen to them all day. Luckily that is possible because I recorded the whole thing, well almost everything.

Here are some photos and a video embedded of them performing

Outside  St. Peter and Paul Church, Krakow.

Hope you enjoyed it as well.

The Light At The End Of The Tunnel

    Hi guys, it has been forever. I have not blogged in 10 long weeks. I can't even believe it. We'll here I am today. I have had a lot on my plate lately. I was preparing for and taking exams and to be honest didn't  have time to post anything.
   The good news is.......Wait for it....... I'm now in 6th year. The final year of Med school. Can you believe it? Neither can I. I can still remember vividly my first day in 1st year, thinking how am I going to get through this school and when is that going to be? Well, he I am today. I was so happy after I finished my last exam, it was a stressful one (Otolanyngology).
   So now I can say that "I can see the light at the end of the tunnel". The end of this long journey is just 12 short months away. But that's not all of it. This year is kind of an internship year for me. I just wanna learn as much as I can during this time.
  I have already started with 6th year. I have Surgery rotation now and i'll probably post once or twice about my experience. Next I have Psychiatry. That should be fun.

The photo above was taken during my trip to Krakow, Poland at St. Peter and St. Paul cathedral. I have many posts on that trip so make sure you check them out below.

The city of Krakow
Something Polish
Love Padlocks

The rest of Krakow

I'm so sorry that it has taken me forever to post the rest of the Krakow photos. I have been super busy with school and have very little time right now.

A photo of the huge church in the Rynek square.

Rynek square.

"Eros Bound” sculpture of a head

You've seen this before, if you haven't click HERE

This is the other bridge, adjacent to the 'love padlock bridge' for cars and trams and pedestrians as well.

Beautiful Sunset.

On our last night in Krakow, we went to have the Polish hot red wine called Grzani. 

Portraits

This is gonna be a really quick post. I just wanted to share some portraits I took of my friends while we were in Krakow, Poland. I have never really taken any portraits before. This was my first trial. I think they turned out pretty well. My friend just sat on the window pane watching people go about their activities on the street while listening to music on her Ipod, and I just thought "this would make a really nice photo". So I just took a few. I know all the photos were taken in one position, it was a very spontaneous thing. I'll be more creative next time. I hope you like them.

When they all saw that the photos were nice, they all wanted photos, lol.

If you liked them, please leave a nice comment. Thanks in advance :))

Love Padlocks

One of the places I visited while Krakow, Poland is the Lovers footbridge. This bridge is called Father Bernard Footbridge. Theres's this tradition going on in some European cities like Paris, Rome, Florence, Cologne. 

So, what's this tradition about? A happy couple visits the bridge and locks a padlock to the bridge (some even engrave their names on the padlock) and then throw the keys into the Vistula river. It is a sign of their everlasting love for each other. Romantic or what?????

As for me, I didn't go to lock anything. I was just a happy tourist that found this tradition very interesting and even though I have been to Paris and Rome, I have never seen any of the bridges.

The Bridge was just recently completed (2010), so there is still space for thousands of padlocks incase any of my readers want to lock away their love :))

I took a lot of photos and would like to share some with you.

 There's another bridge behind the footbridge as you've noticed. We'll talk about that in another post.

 The Father Bernard Footbridge.

 Look at those padlocks. Lots of space left :)

 Padlock out of focus.

 Padlock in focus

 With a bit of Sun shining through.

I hope you really like these pictures cause I love them. If you do, please kindly leave a comment below, it does put a smile on my face :) Thanks in advance.

for more Krakow pictures, CLICK HERE