Day 88 POLAND Warsaw

We must be travel weary coming to the end of our trip. Ruby has come down with a cold. She volunteered to come back to the apartment for a rest before our concert tonight instead of exploring further. That is when I know Ruby is actually unwell. I am very pleased with the less doing and walking, and catching more buses and trams instead of walking everywhere. I am writing this whilst Ruby is taking a nap, something she does only when she's really unwell.

We caught a bus to breakfast at Cafe Bristol, one of the few original buildings left standing after the annihlation of Warsaw by the Nazis. Very posh cafe with premium breakfast and coffee at a price to match.

After breakfast we joined the Old Town walking tour. The guide on the walking tour had very dry sense of humour but he was very informative. He gave a good outline of Polish, especially Warsaw history from 1200s through the partitions, the Nazi occupation, communist times to present day. He highlighted all the 4 buildings still left standing after the war and we learnt the enormous human cost in all the various uprisings and wars.

Lunch was at N31 restaurant. This restaurant is a Michelin bib restaurant that had a lunch special, 3 course meal with water, bread and coffee for AUD $34 each. Made up for my expensive coffee.

We are going for a chorale recital at Teatr Wielki this evening. So will write about it when I get back.

The chorale performance started with little kids choir, then the teenagers joined and lastly the ladies choir sang the second half of the concert. The ladies choir had a guest conductor Joshua Haberman from the US. They sung in Polish, Latin and English in great harmony. The acoustics in the hall we were in was simply amazing.もっと詳しく