Shining All Over The Oakland Bay Bridge

Its the second time in this Blog's history that we receive photo from someone to post and the first shining in the U.S.A.

I'd like to remind you all that we are always happy to receive your own shinings so we could upload them to the blog.

In the background is apparently the Oakland Bay Bridge. I've never been there so I can't argue on that.

Shining all over Nuremberg

The visit in Nuremberg was, as expected, dedicated to Nazis. 

On the first day I went to the Nazi party rally grounds. It is the same place where Leni Riefenstahl filmed the famous Nuremberg Rally in 1934. 

Anyone who saw the movie would've expected to find a glamorous Nazi spot as impressive as the sights of Rome. In reality it is a run down mountain of concrete that reminded me of the Stalin buildings in east Berlin. 

Most the site was destroyed during the war and now whats left is the grandstand where Hitler gave his speeches. 

Climbing up the crumbling concrete stairs a man at his 70's passed me and said in German: "They promised us a 1000 years Reich, for god's sake. And it didn't even lasted a 100"

As I reached the top I saw that the grandstand was occupied by a father and his daughters, the man was imitating Hitler and taking photos with his daughters posing as a soldier.

We took the photos and went further. I was a little bit depressed by now by the whole scene.

The next photo is taken from the back side of the Kongreshalle. A Colosseum like Building.

On the next day we went to see the Court house of the Nuremberg trials.

Shining all over Warsaw - Palace of Culture and Science

Before I start I must confess, Shining is not as it used to be. I guess I got a little bored of it. If in the past I used to walk around looking for shining material, now I pass places without shining on them in the excuse that they are not monumental enough. 

This time I went to Poland to see some shows in the Krakow Jewish festival and then travelled north to Warsaw to see if the Pierogy there is any better.

And then, while coming out of the train station, my eyes fell upon a building that gave me back the passion for shining. 

Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science is the embodiment of Stalin's cock, and I could have told you that even before reading this interesting Wikipedia article