Warsaw Tour Guide, Ela Rudniak

21/03/2025

🇵🇹 This Sunday, Lisbon story tour! Explore with me the magic of the Portuguese capital.

▶️ Join me this Sunday for one only live walk in Lisbon, Portugal.🇵🇹Thank you for your support: PayPal me on https://paypal.me/...

21/03/2025

🇵🇹🇵🇹Bom dia! I’m in Lisbon for a few days and am going to set up a live tour. So watch this space. 🇵🇹🇵🇹

10/03/2025

I'm still in the delight of unexpected May in March we're experiencing in Warsaw. And so I simply had to go out for an evening stroll through the Skaryszewski Park, along Francuska Street in beloved Saska Kępa. The lights, the colours, the joy.

09/03/2025

🌱 Spring in Warsaw. We're currently experiencing a wave of exceptional warmth for this time of the year with temperatures in the region of 15 Celsius (59 F).

🐥Mandarine ducks in the gorgeous Skaryszewski Park are enjoying the rapid change of the weather as well. See their morning bath and playing tag. Such a surprise to come across them and a great fun to watch. 😍

https://youtube.com/shorts/ItpAlQXJPuI

21/02/2025

📣International Tourist Guide Day! 📣

Let's celebrate. 🔔Here is a short compilation of extracts from my livestream walks in the past year. Thank you for accompanying me on the YouTube streaming. Hope to see you all in my upcoming livestream tours.
www.YouTube.com/

14/02/2025

❄️A brisk walk in the frost tomorrow. 💨
Grab a cup of your favourite drink (what would it be?) 🍵☕️ and join me on Nowy Świat Live Walk from the comfort of your home.

https://youtube.com/live/DCI5aXujgzw

08/02/2025

Huh, yet another piece about disbelief at Warsaw becoming a vegan capital of Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/warsaw-vegan-capital-europe-city-poland-food?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Herring, sausage? Yes, but the number of vegan restaurants in Warsaw grows steadily. Here are a couple of pics from my favourite local plant-based dining place. Yummy.

01/02/2025

Hi! Introducing a short video with a new type of content - a short book presentation relating to my next tour. My next tour is going to be of Nowy Świat Street (yet to be posted), and one of many remarkable people who lived here was Ron Jeffery a British soldier who fought during the 2nd WW in the Polish underground Home Army.
It'd be great if after watching the film you could share your thoughts of what you think of the new content idea.

https://youtu.be/O9hSi9NSsvg

27/01/2025

27 January - the day of the rememberance of the victims of the Holocaust.
Today, as every year an empty tram with David’s star will be running across Warsaw.

06/01/2025

Happy New Year! 🎉 I'm beginning 2025 with a post about Gdańsk, and a short clip from my visit to this magical city. I visited it just after Christmas so you'll notice a Christmas tree next to the Neptun Fountain. My main objective was to see the renowned Museum of the Second World War but I simply had to have a walk around the Old Town, and the clip the link you'll find below is a 4-minute moving postcard from this part of the city.

Gdańsk is situated on the Baltic coast in northern Poland. Its Old City Centre is a captivating blend of maritime history (it was a prominent hub of trade in the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages) and architectural splendor. The Old Town's architecture is fascinating, very different from the one in Warsaw. It features ornately decorated townhouses with gabled roofs, Gothic churches like St. Mary's Basilica - the largest brick church in the world - and Renaissance gems such as the Artus Court, a former meeting place for merchants.

Gdańsk is also renowned as the 'Amber Capital of the World'. For centuries, local artisans have transformed amber, the fossilized resin of ancient trees found along the Baltic coast, into exquisite jewelery and art. In workshops throughout the Old Town, skilled craftsmen showcase their age-old techniques, from shaping and polishing to intricate carving, keeping the city's amber-making heritage alive. A quick glimpse into some of the displays should give you a taste.

Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/WWHeFACeRGs

18/12/2024

🌟Here’s a rather heavily abridged version of my Sunday livestream from the Warsaw historic centre. I hope it still conveys the city festive atmosphere, which I tried to share. 🎄🤶✨ Enjoy!

https://youtube.com/live/tW7098P6HVA

15/12/2024

🌟 Is Warsaw ready for Christmas? 🌟 What can you get at the Christmas market? 🌟 What dishes make Polish Christmas Eve unique? 🌟 How to make traditional barszcz or borshch?

🔴 I’m happy to invite you for a livestream Christmas walk along the Warsaw historic centre TODAY at 7 p.m. Warsaw time. 🤶🎄🔔

🔗 https://youtube.com/live/tW7098P6HVA

09/12/2024

Thanks to those if you who joined my Łódź-Ghetto tour yesterday. If you didn’t but would like to see the recording, here is the link:

🔴 https://youtube.com/live/2XPR-l8e_WY

You’ll find the tour details in the YT event description ⤴️. Here are also a couple of photos from the stream.

06/12/2024

My previous livestream was inspired by the documentary "Pianoforte", this one 👆, by the exhibition at the Jewish Historical Institute "To capture ghetto". The exhibition presents paintings, metalwork, other artefacts from the Łódź Ghetto (Litzmannstadt Getto). See a few photos of some of the works. ⤵️

It's taken me several visits to Łódź to get prepared, and… I'm ready!
📅 When? This Sunday!
🔴The live walk link: https://youtube.com/live/2XPR-l8e_WY

As a prologue to the walk, you can refer to the recording from my Piotrkowska street streaming saved on my channel on YouTube. To add, the plan for the Sunday walk is to continue streaming from Piotrkowska St. as it is on my way to the train station. Expect leaving the dramatic history and entering current festive mood.

29/11/2024

Earlier this week, Polish documentary „Pianoforte” was awarded the International Emmy For Arts Programming. It is about Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition that has taken place in Warsaw every 5 years since 1927. Inspired by the event, I am inviting you for my Sunday online Streaming from the walk: Chopin’s Warsaw.
Here’s the event link:
https://youtube.com/live/qPQ2e2gQf8Y

21/11/2024

First snow here in Warsaw. Quite wintery and so peaceful earlier this morning in Elekcyjne Błonia Kamionkowskie park. Sharing this beautiful moment before the snow all melted.

09/11/2024

Earlier this year, Julia von Heinz, a German film director, made a film set in post-communism Warsaw and Łódź in 1991. The film is based on a book by Lily Brett telling her and her father's story.The main characters, Ruth, a New York journalist (Lena Dunham) and her father, Edek (Stephen Fry) arrive at Warsaw where they hire a taxi (Zbigniew Zamachowski as a taxi driver) to have a ride to Łódź, to Edek's hometown, and... to Edek's memories of the pre-war city. In his family he's the only Holocaust survivor. He now shows the city, places connected with his and his family's past to his daughter.

The film was screened today as part of the 22nd Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. After the screening Julia von Heinz answered a few questions. Below is a link to my 60-second recording when she talks about the main actors', i.e., Lena Dunham's and Stephen Fry's links with Poland and Jewish heritage.

The film is a prologue or rather an epilogue to my upcoming tour of Łódź ghetto that I'm preparing for. It also links with my live streaming from Piotrkowska Street in Łódź I did the other week (the recording is available on my YT channel). BTW If you want to see "Treasure", it will be available to watch online for a week or so after the festival.

„Treasure” film director is talking @ L. Dunham’a and S. Fry’s Jewish and Polish links at Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. ...