Warsaw, Poland - September 2007

Our last stop! We actually were only here for one night and they way our flights worked out we only had 1/2 day to spend in Warsaw. As per usual, it was pouring! But since we only had a few hours to work with went out anyway.

After the Warsaw Uprizing in 1944 where civilians tried for 63 days to take back their city, they were defeated. In reaction to this, Hitler ordered the entire city to be razed to the ground. In the end, 85% of the city was completely destroyed.

Warsaw has been and is continuing to rebuild their city according to pictures before it was destroyed. Even in the rain we enjoyed walking around the new "old" streets and looking at the new "old" buildings. The main square was especially adorable. We didn't have any time to do any tours or go in any buildings so we had to just get the feel of city from walking around it. I thought it resembled Krakow quite a bit, which is a good thing.

Since we had yet to try a real Polish perogie, we decided to make that our last meal of the trip. We each tried a different type of baked perogie with 3 different sauces and they were unbelieveable! Cass liked his, but not as much as me. Here is he is contemplating his meal:

Unfortunately that is all for Warsaw. We had a 4 pm flight and did as much as we could...but I think we got the idea. We were also at the end of a 2 week trip and looking forward to coming home and sleeping in our bed and seeing the cats (well, I was excited to see the cats).

Hope you enjoyed the trip blogs! I'm heading to Venice and Florence in 5 days so I'll have more to show then! Here are some more pics I snapped in Warsaw to wrap it up!