Warsaw sights

First day in Warsaw:
First mistake was that Lidia and I left home without hats (to later find out it was -10C ... no wonder we were cold!). We visited Lazienki Palace which was absolutely gorgeous covered in snow (translated: Bath Palace). Then off we shivered to Holy Cross Church (my grandmother saw the cross fall during the Nazi destruction of Warsaw from across the Wisla river) and St. Anne's Church. In Stare Miasto (Old Town, which was completely rebuilt after the war) we saw King Zygmunt's Column, King's Palace, and the siren of Old Town square.



Tomek, nice guy, took Lidia and I out to eat for some good Polish food and Zobrowka (best Vodka) and then to the Cultural Palace, built by the Communists as a gift to the Poles after the war, for some higher views of Warsaw. A guard tried to get us in after hours, but his friend wouldn't open the gate for us, and that guard was 30 zloty poorer than he could have been.



Second day in Warsaw:
Lidia and I went to the Warsaw Uprising Museum to meet Ciocia Hannia, my grandfather's cousin, and to see the museum. She was a letter carrier for the resistance during WWII. Even though she's completely bent over with age, we had a hard time keeping up with her, and when she wasn't grabbing us by the hand and whisking us away in moment we were losing her in the next.