Nathan’s Holiday Trek 2006
At midnight, we toasted the New Year and then went up on the roof to watch the fireworks over Wroclaw. Afterwards, we were planning to go downtown to sample the street party that we had been watching on TV most of the evening.
New Year’s Eve Part 1: at home
During the afternoon, we went up on the roof of the high-rise building where my sister lives to see the view in preparation of watching the fireworks later that evening. Wroclaw has undergone a version of Boston’s “Big Dig” in the past couple of years; the square on the right, Plac Grunwaldzki, is one of the city’s main junctions. It has been closed for most of the past year for construction of a big shopping centre, just visible behind the tall building on the left. At the same time, the road and tram lines on the right have been refurbished. The whole thing is to open in the spring of 2007. The circle is going to be named the “Reagan Circle”. Ronald Reagan is widely viewed as a hero in Poland.
Then we settled in to watch TV, eat and drink until midnight together with my sister’s neighbours. Taco the Cat decided to check out the food on the table before we began--a most unusual behaviour for him, but then again, he is on vacation too...
