A change in feelings (and health!)

03/06/2010 – 22:45 - Day 9 – Warsaw, Poland

Well I’ve changed my mind about Warsaw a little bit. It’s OK but it’s certainly not as special as Krakow in my opinion.

For starters everything was destroyed in the Second World War. Therefore, the old town is not old town, it’s in fact pretty recent town. Don’t get me wrong, old town is nice, but it’s not as special as Prague and Krakow in my opinion. The reconstruction of it all Is great, just does not feel ‘real’.

Secondly, for a capital city, the place is a ghost town. Hardly anyone can be seen around our hotel, few people at all. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that it was Corpus Christi today and therefore a national holiday so everyone was at home/church, I can only confirm tomorrow.

Today we just walked around, via a walk which wasn’t very inspiring to old town. We walked around old town which was nice then headed to the north end of the city to catch an underground to where we could get a bus home.

Maybe it was the fact I wasn’t feeling very well (I’ve got a very bad sore throat) and couldn’t get any lozenges (everything shut!) but today wasn’t that fun for me.

I did however, enjoy walking around old town and enjoyed the evening where we went to a “Perogiria” (if you can imagine such a thing)! The weather during the day itself was also fine – around 27 degrees Celsius and sunny!

Hopefully I will feel in a more excitable and interested mood tomorrow, but Warsaw is not as impressive as my first impression thought.

Pictures

Me in the Perogiria with oven baked perogi and a nice beer

Laura with a bell in old town - the bell never rang as it was designed incorrectly but is said to contain mystical powers (wooooo)
Castle (rebuilt of course)
A war monument near to our hotel