nerdycellist
24 Aug 2009
Travel / WE ARE BACK FROM POLAND AND HERE IS OUR REPORT [96]
What a wonderful thread this is!
These trip reports are all very helpful for me while I plan my first trip to Poland next year. I wanted to make it a bit of a genealogical trip, but our family history seems to have hit a brick wall. It sounds as though I will enjoy it anyway.
I was planning on renting a car for a small portion - it's good to know about the "badness" of the drivers, but I live in L.A. and think I am up to the challenge! I will keep my eyes out for GPS devices just so I don't get hopelessly lost.
It is nice to know there are so many English speakers, but I will also be making an attempt to learn the language (and hope my half-remembered German can fill in the gaps) so as to read signs, menus, museum captions and everything. Maybe I'll visit my parents in Chicago and try and get some practice at one of the Polish Delis in their neighborhood.
And I am in some small way comforted by the lack of smiley-ness of the Polish people. I'm not an especially smiley person myself, so it will be nice to finally be somewhere that a complete stranger doesn't come up to me and insist I smile.
What a wonderful thread this is!
These trip reports are all very helpful for me while I plan my first trip to Poland next year. I wanted to make it a bit of a genealogical trip, but our family history seems to have hit a brick wall. It sounds as though I will enjoy it anyway.
I was planning on renting a car for a small portion - it's good to know about the "badness" of the drivers, but I live in L.A. and think I am up to the challenge! I will keep my eyes out for GPS devices just so I don't get hopelessly lost.
It is nice to know there are so many English speakers, but I will also be making an attempt to learn the language (and hope my half-remembered German can fill in the gaps) so as to read signs, menus, museum captions and everything. Maybe I'll visit my parents in Chicago and try and get some practice at one of the Polish Delis in their neighborhood.
And I am in some small way comforted by the lack of smiley-ness of the Polish people. I'm not an especially smiley person myself, so it will be nice to finally be somewhere that a complete stranger doesn't come up to me and insist I smile.