Poland!

I got back from Poland a while ago, however Mids were this week so I have been very busy.

In Poland we went to Poznan and Warsaw. Poznan was smaller, but so beautiful and packed full of spaghetti bars. (Plus we stayed at the Ibis!) We did a lot of tours around churches, since Poznan was the birthplace of Polish history and Catholicism. In the surrounding areas of Poznan we visited quite a few open air museums. We had our afternoons and nights free so those were spent wandering the city centers. We were also lucky enough to be there on a Saturday at noon. Any day at noon in Poznan they do the running of the goats. However, on SATURDAYS they also have the lancers out. The lancers kind of look like the Polish Mounties. On the way to leave Poznan, we got really lost. We also were supposed to get there by ourselves, so this did not help. Luckily a nice Polish man came over and helped us. Then my suitcase broke, so another nice Polish guy helped me carry it up the stairs.

In Warsaw we stayed at the HIT Hotel. It was nice, but the ladies at the front desk were rude! In Warsaw we did a lot of tours. Then we went to Treblinka. It was pretty quiet, and had a different feel to it then Sachsenhausen. Most of it was destroyed by the Nazis, so a lot of it was just memorials. However, this is still a must do.


 The highlight of this trip though, was I got yelled at by a little old Polish woman for about 15 minutes. She informed in Polish I was going to the ’grypa’ (flu) and die, if I did not put my jacket on. She then pointed at Lizzie who had a jacket on and told me to dress like her. But my pants were ok, haha, since they covered my legs. We told her that we did not speak Polish. She nodded, and turned around. Then she turned back to us and continued to yell at me.

It was so strange to be in Poland. I got so used to speaking English and broken German. In Poznan some people did speak a little German. In Warsaw though no one did, so it was a bit harder to get around.

I was having trouble posting pictures here, so I made a flickr!


https://www.flickr.com/photos/127821656@N04/​

Tschüss!