Being a tourist in Warsaw: This is more exhausting than cycling

Being a tourist in Warsaw: This is more exhausting than cycling - Hunting down Ancient Tractors between Dusseldorf and Warsaw - CycleBlaze

From Hunting down Ancient Tractors between Dusseldorf and Warsaw

By Tricia Graham

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October 4, 2014

We shifted to the Ibis on Wednesday and since then we have spent our time exploring and coming to grips with this really extrordinary city. Tomorrow we will be back on our bikes for a short ride to an airport hotel and the preparation for our long journey home.

A small portion of the ghetto wall that still remains

In the footpaths there are these bits inserted to show you where the ghetto walls were

Her birthplace which is now an excellent museum

A periodic table of the time that interested me

We spent a whole morning at the very moving and informative Rising Museum

A street scene at the beginning of the Uprising

During the uprising this church which we visited on Wednesday was used as a hospital - it was bombed or shelled by the Germans with patients and staff inside. Very many were killed. It was impossible to get the bodies out of the crypt where many were so a new marble floor has been built over it and you are asked to pray for them. This church has 4 services a day on regular days and 8 on Sundays - they are well attended

Outside the church are panels that tell the harrowing story

Trams are all over Warsaw. We got day passes and one day got horribly lost on the system in a way that reminded me of that Old Simon and Gafunkle song

There are lots of different supermarkets. I like this one best

Paderewski world famous pianist who was briefly premier of Poland in 1920 is buried in the Cathederal

Altough the rest of Chopins body is in Paris his heart is buried in The Basilica of the Holy Cross

The Poles are extremely proud of Pope John Paul Ii and this stunning representation of him is in the same church

When we were in St Ann's Church a group of older school girls came in and sang unaccompanied, with the superb acoustics they sounded magnificent

This is the baroque organ in the same church, we went to an organ concert there today

The Polonia Football Stadium is across the road from the hotel we had hoped to go to a match there to night but they have a away game

A very poor photo inside the art museum in the castle, it shows small children being taken around the museum and read stories. It is a small collection but has two magnificent Rembrants, one in particular I loved - The Girl in the Oicture Frame

Poland was the first country in the world after Britain to have a scouting movement. It seems to be very strong as we have seen several groups of them

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