Hey D, Haha, I’m great, just taking some time away from Tokyo sightseeing to reply to your class’s letters! How’s it going on your end? My wife (N, who writes most of the blog posts) and I loved Poland! We were there in the summer, and the weather was very nice. N is from Russia, so…
I wouldn’t have guessed it, but Poland turns out to have a lot of complicated, beautiful, and interesting street art. A few examples: Warsaw: Kraków: Sopot: Łódź:
Restaurant Eteria: This was our first meal in Poland, and it was a great start. I ordered zucchini cakes – like my grandma makes, which came with salmon. The quality was quite good, as confirmed by the next time I had zucchini cakes: the latter ones were fairly saturated in oil. B ordered the schnitzel. We sat…
We were in Warsaw for nine days. That might seem strange, once you read how little we saw, but we did a lot of sitting in cafes and people-watching: enough so that I feel confident saying one entire day passed that way. No regrets. Multimedialny Park: This was the first thing we really saw in Poland, and…
For the last few weeks, my coughing has been worse than usual – which is a feat. Clearly, taking pre-emptive Advils to relieve my inevitable sinus headaches is not a long-term solution. My dad suggested that I explore foreign medicines. After all, perhaps they had discovered a remedy missing in the US; not unheard of,…