First Day of Honeymoon: Warsaw 5/23/13

After enduring a 15-hour flight, complete with screaming babies on the Lufthansa trip, Aleks and I touched down into an unusually cold and overcast Warsaw. We checked in for one night into the Best Western on the eastern bank (or Praga district) and began a walking/driving tour with our jocose Polish tour guide and a crew composed of an Englishwoman from Stratford upon Avon, a Belgian, and a Swede.

 Our first stop was the Royal Baths Park along the Royal Route, and we saw the Chopin Memorial, the Royal Baths Palace, and a few peacocks. Next we drove on a tour bus around the city and saw memorials to the Warsaw Uprising. We later stopped to look at the New Town and then Warsaw's Old Town, parts of which weren't destroyed by bombing in WWII or was recently rebuilt. Here we saw the Royal Palace, the Barbican fortification wall, an odd piece of graffiti of Madame Curie, a church with the old Polish armor dress, and the Katyn memorial.