Warsaw

We woke up this morning, packed up car and headed for Warsaw from Krakow. It was partially motorway but mostly just a twoway road loaded with lots of trucks. Mark calls Poland the Mexico of Europe. Its a good thing we're driving a tiny Fiat without much power (it sounds kind of like a sewing machine) because it keeps Mark under control as far as speed and passing goes.

Anyway, it took about 5-6 hours to get to Warsaw, two of those being stuck in traffic in Krakow.

The weather is not so nice. It seems that all of our pictures show us wearing coats, but that's because we have to stay pretty bundled up to ward off the cold wind.

We found a small hotel on the east side of the Vistula River, near the zoo and Praski Park.

We got a tram to take us to the old town. It is very beautiful, but not too big. Most of Warsaw was completely demolished during WWII but through old photos and people remembering it has been rebuilt to look like it used to.

Tomorrow we will go to the Uprising Museum that explains how the people rose up against the Nazis, especially in the Warsaw Ghetto. We'll also go to see the zoo where the zookeeper and his wife hide many Jews and the animals were lost, or shot by soldiers, or worse, eaten.

We will stay two nights here then spend a night in Bialystok. For those of you who remember who Max Bialystok is, I guess this is where his family came from (The Producers!).

Then on to Lithuania....