Originally posted at LiveJournal on Jul 9, 2009
After two days in Warsaw, we are now at our cousin`s apartment in Geneva. Tomorrow afternoon we fly to Rome, and then we`ll come back here for five days.
The flight from Warsaw was interesting--a direct trip to Geneva would have cost something like $1500, so instead we changed planes in London. We were worried at first about finding our connection in Heathrow, because people kept telling us how huge the airport is, and we only had an hour to catch our next flight, and our luggage might not arrive in Geneva on time so we should pack our carry-ons as if we would never see our luggage again... in the end, everything went really smoothly.
Warsaw was cool--we saw the World War II Uprising Museum, and my brother and I checked out the Adam Mikiewicz Museum of Literature, which had two exhibits. One was on the response of Polish artists and writers to the economic hardships caused by Communist policies during the 70s and 80s. The other was on Adam Mikiewicz himself, a poet who was actually born in Lithuania in 1798. Overall, the whole museum was more of an art museum, with a few excerpts from poems interspersed between paintings and photographs.
Random comment--I love the architecture of all the Old Towns I`ve seen. The churches and cathedrals are especially interesting, and I loved in Warsaw how some of the pubs or bars look like little caves you have to go down a flight of stairs to get into. I don`t know if that made any sense... ^^; We keep trying to find jazz bars or informal concerts for my brother, but it hasn`t workd out so far :(
Oh, and I bought two Bowie CDs so far...one in Vilnius, and the other in Warsaw. Squee :)
Now we`re going to watch "La Vengeance de Monte Cristo" with my cousin.
After two days in Warsaw, we are now at our cousin`s apartment in Geneva. Tomorrow afternoon we fly to Rome, and then we`ll come back here for five days.
The flight from Warsaw was interesting--a direct trip to Geneva would have cost something like $1500, so instead we changed planes in London. We were worried at first about finding our connection in Heathrow, because people kept telling us how huge the airport is, and we only had an hour to catch our next flight, and our luggage might not arrive in Geneva on time so we should pack our carry-ons as if we would never see our luggage again... in the end, everything went really smoothly.
Warsaw was cool--we saw the World War II Uprising Museum, and my brother and I checked out the Adam Mikiewicz Museum of Literature, which had two exhibits. One was on the response of Polish artists and writers to the economic hardships caused by Communist policies during the 70s and 80s. The other was on Adam Mikiewicz himself, a poet who was actually born in Lithuania in 1798. Overall, the whole museum was more of an art museum, with a few excerpts from poems interspersed between paintings and photographs.
Random comment--I love the architecture of all the Old Towns I`ve seen. The churches and cathedrals are especially interesting, and I loved in Warsaw how some of the pubs or bars look like little caves you have to go down a flight of stairs to get into. I don`t know if that made any sense... ^^; We keep trying to find jazz bars or informal concerts for my brother, but it hasn`t workd out so far :(
Oh, and I bought two Bowie CDs so far...one in Vilnius, and the other in Warsaw. Squee :)
Now we`re going to watch "La Vengeance de Monte Cristo" with my cousin.
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