hotel poznan 3
Originally uploaded by blind sam.

Here's a few images from my recent trip to berlin and poznan. I ended up in this quintessentially polish hotel, naturally by accident - the hotel I had 'booked' with hadn't gotten my reservation. (It was a last minute rush so I don't blame them all, plus I'm just lucky in these ways.) So, I ended in this somewhat second tier place, which mostly hadn't been moderized, and retained considerably more history than the rest of Poznan's hotels which where culturally buried under the perestroika explosion of typical global faceless accomodation.

Also in its favour as far as I was concerned , it had slavic sadness throughout, the bizarre harshness of eastern european architecture (which is every bit as generic as the corporate west, just less familiar) and a terrible silence - with the exception of my room's 'plumbing' which sounded like a lawnmower having a go at a wasp's nest for five or six minutes at a time.

Some other Images.