Dzin dobry! We are
off on another adventure, so the blog is running again!
Day one was exhausting.
We were on an overnight flight from Toronto to Paris, during which we
slept for about 40 minutes. We had lots
of leg room due to our carefully chosen emergency exit seats, but that does not
help you lie down to sleep! We flew with
Air France which served really good food, highly recommended to any future
travellers. All we can say about the
Paris airport is that it is big and smells a little funny.
From Paris we immediately flew to Warsaw. When we arrived we ate and then slept for
several hours (yes, we know you should wait until the evening to help with jet
lag...but we were exhausted to the point of nausea). We got up and had a LONG walk around
town. There is a mix of old world
buildings with modern skyscrapers. Very
much like any large city in the world.
We had dinner in the lovely lounge on the 40th floor of our
hotel and went back to bed.
It was not the most productive of days, but it was enjoyable in the end!
We are now in Gdansk, a beautiful town in northern
Poland. Most of it was destroyed during
WWII, but they have carefully rebuilt it all using pictures and paintings of
original buildings. Amazing! We got here around noon so we checked into
the Radisson Blu Hotel (thank you for the free upgrade to a Business Class room
– big and lovely). Right now there is a
street festival so the streets are full of vendors and street performers. This makes it interesting, but crowded. We had to resort to a long meal of Polish
cuisine and beer while people watching.
Our basic conclusion is that the Polish women dress nicely (lots of
summer dresses) and the tourists wear a lot of short shorts and belly shirts. We are giving Colin’s leg a chance to rest, than
we will be out and about for dinner (and perhaps more beer). Over the next few days we will explore more
of this city and relax a bit as well before meeting Daen in Krakow on Sunday.
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