Warszawa, Poland - April 17-18, 2003

A trusty Polski Fiat! A very popular car in Poland.

A shot from the Polish war museum.

And a few tanks...

This is a kind of common archictectural thing I saw in Poland which I liked...evoking Atlas I suppose.

This is the Polish Senate building...there really weren't any great angles for a picture so I made the best of it with the sun.

One of many Polish dogs. And this is the most popular type of dog too, with a body seemingly just a bit too long for its legs. Ran into a Polish fellow here who was curious about how my camera worked and how much it cost.

Heading into a botanical garden.

A Polish troop...something else you see a bit of just walking around the city.

The Palace of Lazienki, or Baths, built in the 17th century.

One of the residents of Lazienki...

Another building near to Lazienki. These were all buried a bit in a very large park.

Poland...

Neil Gaiman's comic books are also popular in Poland...

Hmm, don't think I'll catch anyone in our family in these boots tho...

Warszawa has a huge underground infrastructure with shops for eating and buying just about anything.

A Warszawa-made chocolate bar.

A photo from my hostel in Warszawa...cheap, nice, but 25 minutes outside the city. Still, a good excuse to see parts of the city I wouldn't otherwise have seen as I went in and out on the tram.

Click HERE to watch some Polish kids on Polish TV.
I swear there's a Jason Tedford look-alike on here...
Look for the guy with his hat flipped backwards!

Another interesting Polish-ism of TV is that they have shows in all sorts of languages...saw a Spanish soap opera and the American film 'Perfect Storm' on the TV for example. The original sound track with all the speaking in the original language is still there but its volume is somewhat low. Meanwhile, there is one single Polish guy who translates all the dialogue into Polish for every single character in the movie... young and old, male or female! And he repeats even the most emotional lines in a rather deadpan, monotonous voice. It's pretty funny to watch sometimes...

Polish money, this featuring King Jagiello...100 zlotys is the same as about 25 dollars.

A picture from the outside of my hostel. Doesn't look like much from the outside, but I had no complaints for $10 a night!

Oh my, just around the corner from my hostel! How many times have we eaten kielbasa at grandma's house?

Took this picture too show the many architectural sides to Warszawa. From almost Parisian with the brown building on the left, to more Communist in the large apartment building in the distance, to extremely modern with the large building to the right.

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