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Monday, February 26, 2007

warsaw critical mass - a photoset on Flickr

warsaw critical mass - a photoset on FlickrSome of mighty Finn's pics from recent Warsaw Critical Mass. Not bad for a two year old!

Dobry wieczor.

Witamy w Warszawka.

Blimey, it ain't half cold mum.

Warsaw Critical Mass is the biggest in Eastern Europe, apparently. Going strong since 1998. They get at least 100 each month in the winter (and that’s a REAL winter) and up to 2000 in the summer.

I'm over here sort of working for a week. So I went to say hello, take some photos and all that.

There was about 100-150 on the mass. Which is a pretty good turnout, considering it was minus 15 degrees, icy, patches of frozen snow here and there. And I tell you what, the streets of Warsaw (capital city, population 1.8million) are dodgy. Pedestrians need to build up a critical mass to cross the street, even with the "green man" lit. Cars just go through the lights, until enough of a crowd builds up and edges onto the road, forcing the cars to stop. So you can imagine the problems that cyclists have to deal with.

Anyway, if your interested, I've stuck some photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theemightyfinn/sets/72157594552413123

But also you may be interested in checking out their website. These are really organised critical massers. They got maps of previous routes (seem to be about 25km), loads of stuff and enough in English to give an idea of what they are about.
http://www.masa.waw.pl/en/index.html

Do zobaczenia,

Michael C
Bob, 5:20 PM

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