The Westin Warsaw

... we were all entertained for awhile. Arrived stiff and numb at our hotel in Warsaw and we arrived in a place like paradise - The Westin Hotel Warsaw. Now, this is truly a 5 Star hotel in every sense of the word. The ambience is modern yet not loud. My ...

Today we are traveling from Berlin to Warsaw we have a couple of stops along the way the first being the border of Germany and Poland the town well we really didn't see a town it was just a service station and a money exchange with so many truck any way ...

I am sitting in a Noodle cafe in Warsaw across the road from our hotel on John Paul 11 street. The hotel wanted to charge us $36 per hour to connect but this cafe advertised free internet so we have had a good chinese dinner and an internet session!!! We ...

On our way to Warsaw we stop on way at Auschwitz for a guided tour of the camp, a very sad place and a museum.  We have another stop at the Paulite Monastery at Jasna Gora and see the Black Madonna supposedly painted by St Luke the Evangelist.  ...

... beads that had been made out of breadcrumbs by concentration camp victims which was amazing and moving at the same time. Arrived at the hotel early evening-nice hotel. Dinner at the hotel tonight-was a very nice dinner-Westin's are a nice chain of ...

... back to the Palace of culture and science.  This is a huge old soviet built building that is probably the biggest building in Warsaw.  It’s also quite a gaudy affair.  One side has been given over to a cinema.  Not sure what is ...

... -ching!, a very expensive coke, beer, chocolate, whiskey, whatever.  Guess mini bars that I like are disappearing. Mermaids in Warsaw:             The symbol of Warsaw is a mermaid, of all things ...

... and useful site and helpful) and purchased tickets from them for our two inside Poland train rides, Gdansk to Krakow then Krakow to Warsaw.  I had hoped originally to book tickets from Warsaw to Prague but that took too much time as did the Prague to ...

... 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 ...

In our hotel room, we have coffee service. Usually means a coffee pot, cups, sugar, creamer and a coffee filter full of ground coffee.  It also means you are at the mercy of the cleaning staff and how much coffee, sugar, and creamer that they leave ...

Well, let's say Polish words I think I have learned. Tak = yes Lody = ice cream Gofry = waffle piwo = beer Now those are probably the only 4 that I will remember after leaving Poland until I return. Hopefully I will return because it is a beautiful ...

It's a lovely warm day and a public holiday, as we have an option excursion to Wilanow Palace, the residence of Polish king Sobieski.  Beautiful palace, much like the French palaces, later we have a sightseeing of the city.  Later in the ...

These days I usually travel in larger blocks of time, like month to 6 weeks. I can almost always be assured of catching a cold somewhere along the trip.  You'd think that by this time I would have enough foreign bugs roaming around in my system that ...