Sightseeing In A Foreign Land

"I don't like sightseeing" my darling son, who gets the credit for this picture of Chopin's famous statue, confessed to me in a quiet apologetic tone after some hours of wondering the somewhat bleak streets of Warsaw, underdressed for the freezing cold weather, tired after a long night flight, and anticipating another sleepless night on route to our final destination.
For me that day was a discovery of the nothing that's left in that city after the war. All that's there now is an imitation of something long dead. I found it tragic in the most uninteresting way.