15 January 2009
Back in Warsaw
Cracow was great. We toured the old Jewish quarter, took the Crazy Communist tour, drank vodka, saw a da Vinci that I like better than Mona Lisa, and ate very well. And the train ride from Warsaw to Cracow, about 3 hours, is quite nice, too. They have really wonderful drinking chocolate here. I will be forever spoiled. I can say a couple words in Polish--at least enough to order tea. But when the train conductor came around and asked us to close the window in the overheated car (I think that's what he wanted, anyway), I was ignorantly monoligual enough for him to give up and go away. Overall, most Poles seem to speak at least a little English, and they're very tolerant of those of us who don't speak Polish.
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OH MY, drinking chocolate!!! Mmmmm! Poland sounds great. I'm enjoying your updates.
Really, really, good drinking chocolate. Puts all the cocoa I have ever had to shame.
Did you see the Da Vinci portrait of the woman with the mink (or ferret?) That's my favorite painting.
Yes, that's the one. I think it's an ermine. :-) I love that painting. I wonder why it's not as well-known as the Mona Lisa? I liked the entire museum, actually, but the painting was definitely the highlight. And we practically had the place to ourselves, aside from a group of college students who were looking at the exhibit of ancient glass and writing things down. It's a very intimate place, and a nice collection.
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