I spent 5 days in Poland with one of those in Warsaw and the rest in Łódź. For Americans, you can poorly pronounce the city as wooej. My company has an office here and there were meetings to be had. First of all, Poland is an inexpensive country to visit, not much to do or see if you’re a beer lover but a lot to take in if you have any interest in the 20th century history of Europe specifically World War 1 & 2 and the cold war along with the super power of Communist Russia. Everything about this area feels like you’re back in time.
Unfortunately, work was 8AM to 7PM almost daily with after work dinners planned so the time I was able to actually go out and photograph was extremely thin. I spent in total 3 hours by myself roaming around and the weather was 35F, I didn’t see the sun at any time as it was low-level overcast, clouds and fog with bursts of rain most of the time.
It reminds me of winter in San Francisco but the sun never comes out. I’ll probably come back but not any time soon so that’s why taking as many photos as I could was so valuable.
Here are a few of my favorites and as always, the rest are on Flickr.
View from my Hotel room, DoubleTree Hilton. An active nuclear plant in the background
Breakfast at the hotel, runny eggs pickles, cottage cheese, salty ham and sausage.
Bikes are not as common here as in western Europe but still there are dedicated lanes.
The Soviet style buildings are literally everywhere. Beautiful but also cold.
View of the massive public works project for a city center, train station, bus depot and museums.
There are hundreds of abandoned textile factories with overgrowth of vegetation
Abandoned mills.
Beats, Potato, Mayo and Pickled Herring
Making soup with Ham, Pickles, Sauerkraut and other veggies
Meatballs (made by yours truly), very fatty beef with bread crumbs, picked and various cheeses
Our team had an outing and found this awesome mural.
Aside from the fact McDonalds is everywhere, you have to really love Fish, Beets, pickled veggies and Pilsener beer to like this country. Most fish is pickled or heavily salted. Fish Pate is everywhere. Most of the sandwiches are very cheap in ingredients with bologna and maybe some cured ham. I enjoyed eating the food but my body did not
It was a fun place to visit. I hope that next time I have a weekend to explore and some more sunshine.