Dzien Dobry!
Eric and I were loving Germany, but finding it very similar to Canada; thus we decided to shake things up a bit (i.e. make traveling more complicated for ourselves) and head to Poland.
We traveled on Friday to a city of 500,000 called Poznań, and the differences were apparent as soon as we crossed the Germany-Poland border. The trains were more like Italian trains (slow, smelly, late, but charismatic!), and of course, the language was COMPLETELY different (sounds like Russian, looks like English, but reads like djghlfkjgfsdkgsk).
As for the food, I learned today that there are three different words for potato in Polish - pyry, kartofle and ziemniaki. The particular region where Poznań is located, Wielkopolska, is also known as "Pyrlandia" - literally "Potatoland". This is not the place to come to dispel stereotypes about Polish food! So far it has been potatos, potato dumplings, quark, borsht, and relatively flavourless cheeses. The beer is somewhat budweiser-ish, which is a bit disturbing after the delicious beer in Germany, but it keeps the costs down at least!
98 % of the people here are Polish and white as could be, or at least it feels that way. Poznań is easily the least multi-cultural city we have been to (as an example, I was brave enough to try a "burrito" here yesterday, which in Poland consists of a crepe "tortilla" filled with chicken and ketchup). Let's just say I don't think I will sample the Chinese food in Poznań! Of course, the 98% Polish population did not occur by chance... it was carefully planned, and well, seems to have stayed that way ever since.
Although the vodka costs the same as it does in Canada, there does seem to be a lot of alcoholics roaming the city (we already have many pictures of drunken Polish men air-guitaring and prepositioning me when we least expected it!). Anyway, we are thinking that Poland is a good intro to what's to come in Russia next week.
Currently Dan is in Denmark, and Billy will be meeting us in Frankfurt on Tuesday... until then, prost!
Amber
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