Country Info
- Warsaw
- Capital
- Zloty (PLN)
- Currency
- 38,633,912
- Population
- PL
- Country Code
Warsaw Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Warsaw, Poland
Mozzies
This is a top pick! ... smaller roads are a more pleasurable way of seeing the countries. Today was a full day's drive to get to Poland and camp behind a Hotel just south of Warsaw. A bit of a noisy stop, close to the main road and the mozzies were very active. In the forest ...
Kozyglowy
This is a top pick! ... via the internet to our Rotary friends Satish and Graeme for the change over night. It's a pity we had to miss this one. Poland is distinctly low on Caravan Parks and out of the way places are sometimes hard to find and unsafe. We were reluctant to ...
Back to the real Europe
This is a top pick! ... day, hoping that I would somehow be able to sneak into the stadium to watch the Germans play. I was unsuccessful. Unlike Warsaw, most people in Gdansk can’t speak any English, making the situation quite difficult. Maybe my German scarf was making ...
Doing a Job on One's Self
This is a top pick! For the first time in a few days managed to do some solid sightseeing yesterday. Wondering around Warsaw's superb Old Town and Royal Palace, all of which have been amazingly rebuilt and restored following being flattened in WW II. Even managed to get my ...
Home To The Warsaw Village Band. Hmmm..
This is a top pick! ... aren't you the veritable phoenix rising from the ashes. For those who may not know (as I didn't till visiting the city) Warsaw was pretty much flattened during the Furhrers Heavy Metal and High Explosive Tour of Europe back in '39-45. Fortunately for ...
One of these days i will learn to begin a ...
This is a top pick! ... dessert stakes - Polish cheescake is exquisite. Consuming my way through Eastern Europe. So there to the critics. Warsaw is wonderful. A pragmatic, concrete capital with lots of hidden treasures, incredible history and overt tourist attractions. ...
The Phoenix city
This is a top pick! · Warsaw, Poland · Prague time +0hrs · Days to get to Prague - 3 The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see - G.K. Chesterton Too early for us... but not for some Having just about managed to catch, what ...
home
This is a top pick! My brief sojourn to Poland for strawberry season last summer has resulted in me setting down some roots and actually deciding to live here. It's quite unexpected, but quite satisfying nonetheless. Now I have easier access to the rest of the world being ...
Warsaw - Historic.
This is a top pick! ... we were able to watch a special ceremony, to mark one of the uprisings in Polands history. With Wojtek's help we purchased our train ticket for Krakow our next destination in Poland. Footnote: Historic Centre of Warsaw is UNESCO World Heritage ...
A Long Way For Dinner.
This is a top pick! A side trip to have dinner with friends. We found that we could fly to Warsaw Poland via Riga on leaving Uzbekistan for next to nothing. We emailed our friends Wotjec and Justyna that we were comming to Warsaw. They responded with an offer to pick us up ...
Goats and Pigeons
This is a top pick! ... ran over it, and just like a chicken, the headless pigeon was running around. Rather funny. To me, that was the highlight of Warsaw. Basically destroyed during WW2, so there wasn't too much to see, just the remains of the ghetto area. We did however eat ...
Warsaw
This is a top pick! ... I do have to keep on the move or I'll never get home. It was a four day, 360km, cycle to Warsaw. I travelled mainly on the smaller roads. The roads in Poland are in a very poor state, cracked, rutted and pot holed. I think the EU will be spending a lot ...
Seal of Approval for Warsaw
This is a top pick! ... that place. I wouldn't go back if you paid me! Never mind. I also went to the equivalent of 'Te Papa' in Poland - a most magnificent interactive museum called 'The Uprising Museum'. It's a new museum and was totally mind blowing, totally focused on ...
Warsaw
This is a top pick! I arrived in Warsaw in the morning at 6.30 am and gathered my bearing and headed to my hostel. Once there I booked my room and stashed my backpack away and rushed out to take in the capital. The route that I had taken did a pretty good job at hiding the ...
engulfing city energy
This is a top pick! ... . The day is bursting with bikers ready for a spin in their spandex shorts and couples strolling through the manicured Warsaw parks dotted with century old refurbished mansions. The city is alive and ecstatic with its warm weather cloudless spring. ...
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
This is a top pick! ... there are skyscrapers and modern office buildings and internet cafes. I can't say I've particularly enjoyed my stay in Poland. Strangely enough, I felt more comfortable as a Jewish person in Germany than here. But it has certainly been ...
heading east
This is a top pick! ... buildings are also dotting the skyline. It makes for an interesting contrast with the modern vs. old ways of life in Poland. Warsaw was totally destroyed following the uprising of '44 and again when the Nazis where retreating at the end of ...
Hitchhiking madness
This is a top pick! ... - gasp! So this truck driver stops and I get in - he will take me to Kaunas which is where the next connection is to Warsaw. After I tell him where I am going, he tells me that he will radio around and find someone leaving Kaunas who will take me to ...
Warsaw
This is a top pick! Again this was the second time that I had been to Warsaw. Polands capital is a huge metropolis of a city, which is saved in appearance mainly by the old town. Here we visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, wandered around the fantastic old town and ...
Soccer and Poland
... , drives us home and we slept happily ever after. Thanks lennie. It was a great was to end in berlin, tomorrow was time for poland, perhaps this would be where tommy fears for his life, the feeling he so much wanted. the fare was 40 euro, ane cruised free ...
Hot Time in the City
This week has been very busy. Igor graduated from his photography school. There was a big party and three of his photos are on display at a gallery in the "old town". Also he has a couple pics up at the "homeless gallery" which is a run-down ...
diplomacy in Warsaw
... some drink. Then we went to sleep somehow later, of course for me its been forgetting we had changed time between Poland and Lithuania! -------------------------- August 31 My alarm rang really early as it was still on Baltics hours, so I was awake ...
Warsaw Rising
So today I went to the museum of the Warsaw Rising. Like the Schindler's museum, it is incredibly creatively done and follows the story of how the Polish Resistance Home Army fought a very uneven battle against the Nazis and Soviet for about three ...
Arrival in Warsaw
Arrived today at Warsaw airport, which was little more than a small shack with a runway. Waited around and got my bags, then got picked up by Iza's grandad and saw Iza and Nick for the first time. It took us about an hour and a half to get from the ...
Poland, Warsaw & Krakow
... get the same camera so at least i have 2 batteries, 2 chargers & leads...we must always look on the bright side! I loved Poland & wish i could have stayed longer, the weather was fantastic, so were the people. Well take care guys, bye for now, next ...
Warszaw and a Broken Computer
... the noise and mess. But that's living in a former communist country for you... you take what you get and cherish it. We went to Warsaw last weekend with the class. It is the second last trip we are taking as a group. I will be sad to leave the ...
Ahhhh Chopin
... who led and died in the Ghetto uprising and on the other side to the rest of those killed. Went into the centre of Warsaw which looks old but was completely rebuilt after the war (as was completely destroyed) to look as it did before the war. Was ...
Wild Nights and Wicked Days in Warsaw
... – I hadn't seen even one of them) and seeing a dog eat a dead rooster on the side of the road, we arrived at in Warsaw around 8pm.We immediately headed off to Radio Luxembourg, a bar located not far from our camping, to see a local punk show Dan had ...
And Hours to Go Before I Sleep
I'm writing mostly to let you all know that I made it safely to Warsaw. I got a little sad leaving Thailand yesterday, with smiling, helpful Thais guiding me through the airport after my last curry dinner and mango fruit shake (oh I will miss those ...
Another day in Poland
... at my CS address, and Anita showed me some photos of her home town, what is located next to the second highest mountain in Poland.. A really nice town.. We wanted to go food shopping,but the shop was already closed.. So we created a chicken pasta with ...