Uneven
Today, we took a 3-hour walking tour of Kraków, plus a few hours of strolling on either end. The result is this magnificently-uneven souvenir. B has a much more even version that exactly follows his t-shirt line. Thanks Poland!
Adventures in Polski
The good news about the Polish language is that it’s in the same family as a language I speak. The bad news is that it’s not a close-knit family. What that means is that I can understand about 30% of what I hear (up to 40%, if someone magically speaks slowly), but I can say…
What We Saw in Warsaw
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…
What We Ate in Sopot
Sopot is a resort town, something I generally dislike for being crowded, overpriced, boring, and loud. But Sopot turns out to be my favorite resort town, at least partially because of its excellent food. U Kucharzy: This was the first place we ventured for dinner, and while it was on the expensive side for Poland, it made me…
What We Saw in Gdansk
We spent one day in Gdansk. Amber Museum: In the words of B, ‘I would have been happy with just that first room, but this thing keeps going!’ In total, it was about 5 floors worth of exhibit, though each was just one room, with a few offshoots. Climbing from floor to floor was also…
What We Saw in Łódź*
We spent two and a half days in Łódź*. *pronounced Wuh-dge Rynek (Market) Górniak: This market is held inside and around a big metallic dome. It’s a bit of a flea market, mixed with a green market, with lots of random shops thrown in (‘Why hello Mr. Butcher, next door to bins of bargain basement…
A Big Impression
It’s been 7 weeks since we left the US, so B and I were discussing what has made the biggest impression on our trip so far. The incident which most impacted B is an unexpected one. We were in Copenhagen, traipsing to see the Little Mermaid statue. We had exited the bus in a residential neighborhood…
In Search of Nasal-y Things
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,…
Europe is a Many-Splendored Land
Some of our observations don’t fall into any specific country bucket: I always thought that Danish was more like German and that Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish were all fairly similar. Based on how shampoo bottles and the like group descriptions of their fabulous, volumizing products, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian are fairly similar – and Finnish…
Mosquito on Stage
I knew that Stockholm was having a street festival today, but I didn’t look up where it would be. I figured that if we happened to walk into it, great; if not, oh well. After a day of walking to and around parks in a fruitless attempt to find a beach, B and I were…