Retrospect
Today YESTERDAY Flea Market - the source of this investment
Today YESTERDAY Flea Market - the source of this investment
... in a small town between Hanover and Hildesheim (Lower Saxony)
You can find them in the middle of the main shopping area or hidden somewhere in a side street - at least 15 gnomes, but nobody knows exactly how many of them exist on any given day. Some disappear, new ones pop up. They have a special meaning, in addition to being cute and a tourist attraction - quote from the City Spy:
"In the 1980's a group of whacked out anarcho-performance artists called the Orange Alternative staged a slew of Dadaist anti-communist protests. One of which was to dress up like gnomes & run around the city. Now we finally know how the Cold War came to a screeching halt... naughty gnomes ....... in warm underwear...."
In the first picture there're random pedestrians. The musicians in the second one knew their craft. My mom who was watching from a distance was relieved to see me putting some Złoties into their bag at the end of my siege.
We had dinner in the restaurant in the background of the third picture later that day - pieroggies, which were very good. The people in the picture were patient. One of them had to be.
Choreographed to some classical piece it was fun to watch.
Putting your feet into the water is verboten! Well, Wrocław was German, once upon a time.