Zsa Zsa and Pop Pop's Excellent Adventure: ONE MORE NIGHT IN POLAND

Breakfast this morning was the best we have had in Poland...everything you could imagine...but it still does not have a lot of flavor and NO salt on anything...but it was still good.

Here's my plate...the little plate on the right is cold cod in aspic...better known as Knox unflavored gelatin! At least I tried it!

This bowl of lard was next to the butter...so I guess it is used as a spread for bread??? Now that is disgusting!

And then there is this:

So we checked out...total cost was $175...which included the hotel, 1 hour at the pool, free use of swim hats, 2 dinners with private piano concert, free drinks from the Norwegians, 2 beers, 2 breakfasts, and you could say 2 lunches, too, since we were so full from breakfast we didn't require anything for lunch, and it included parking in the security lot...I guess not too bad.

So off we went down the road. Here are some photos we took on the roads today...all very typical of the Polish scenery.

Here's what Dad calls "the Polish super highway"

Sara...here are a bunch of bee hives!

And cows in the front yard:

The super highway kept getting worse. Half the time we were riding on the shoulder as the approaching cars hogged up more than their share of the road. We are really ready to leave Poland.

A field of something:

We have seen quite a few of these carts full of something...I'm not sure if they are apples (but they have no stems) or tomatoes, which are big here...but they would be tomato sauce at the bottom of this big wagon. I'm just not sure.

This is a typical looking house. I think when everyone evacuated the country way back when, all the good brick laying masons were among them!

The homes are very simple and unadorned. I guess they serve their purpose of just being functional. They are all made out of cement blocks, as above, or of bricks, or some have stucco over the blocks. There are no houses of wood...even though there are lots of trees.

I haven't mentioned this...but when you arrive at a hotel in Poland you must give them your passport for ID purposes. and they write down your number. That is not the case in Germany. We'll see what happens in Czech Republic. I love Germany because they don't treat you like criminals. When you arrive there, they just hand you a key and say see you at breakfast. They don't ask for a name or for a credit card. You eat breakfast in the morning and then pay for the room.

Well, our drive today took way longer than what the gps originally said. The gps voice got all mixed up today and had us on crazy backroads. I finally got tired of that so shut that off and used our map. We came to the conclusion that the gps (which actually is a crappy tomtom that is old...it keeps saying that the program is more than 2 years old) Given that information I think the gps didn't have information about some of the roads we were on...the better ones...because the roads were fairly new. I think Poland is really trying to catch up to the world...but the gps doesn't know that yet. A lot of the time that the gps was off course...it showed us as being off the road in a field or something. Today we became much more appreciative of our own highways at home, which we mostly take for granted.

At one point, we did get on the fast paced toll road and made good time there...mostly because Dad was cruising along with the traffic at around 120-140 kilometers per hour (72-84 MPH) (no speed limit is posted).

Here are some more interesting sights along the way:

A huge stack of shredded wheat...no...hay.

Here are typical colored buildings:

And this one.....well...this doesn't need any words:

We got into Boleslawiec, Poland around 5:30 and decided we were too tired to continue driving. It took awhile to find a decent hotel. I finally asked someone where a nice hotel was. So we're staying at this really old place...it's nice and clean and priced right.

Here's the view off our patio: