Sipping a Tyskie in Warsaw

Here we are in Warsaw at last! Our flights here were all uneventful although all were late getting started. In fact, in Paris our plane sat at the gate for half an hour because the mechanized gateway was broken . Or so we were told. Then our pilot let it slip that the crew had to hunt for some staff person who knew how to operate the thing. Had we gotten off on time, we would have just made our connecting Air France flight to Warsaw. But alas, we were 10 minutes late and had to wait 2.5 hours for the next flight.

Took a tram down to the city center and wandered around a bit. This part of town is a bit touristy with some hip restaurants and bars intermixed with old communist era crumbling buildings. The infrastructure is trying hard to catch up to neighboring countries. We found a place to eat and ordered a pizza which ended up being pretty good. Now we are sitting at our hotel and I am sipping a Tyskie which is a light Polish beer. Not bad. Not bad at all.

Tomorrow we hope to tour the Old Town and see the Royal Road where most of the sites are. We will only have half a day to explore before we need to catch a train down to Katowice where Anant has his work meetings.

I have only taken two pictures so far but hopefully we can upload more soon.

Interestingly, we bumped into a Polish girl at the hotel who is learning Hindi, Urdu, Farsi and Sanskrit languages. She was able to converse with us in Hindi. Who woulda thought?! I guess the world is shrinking......

Til next time (yawn), good night from Warsaw or as the locals here pronounce it vah-SHAH-vah.....

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