Poland

One Monday at the end of July, Billy called me from work to ask if there were any way I could join him on a work trip to Poland*.  He was leaving that Wednesday.  So, I called my mom, to see if she could cancel/reschedule her long planned trip to Texas, so that I could go to Poland!  After lots of back and forth, Billy bought our plane tickets, and my mom cancelled her trip, so that I could go.  I keep telling you that my mom is the best!

So, on Tuesday, after the twins' playdate with Zoey, I moved and rescheduled any appointments that I could, to simplify my kids' social calendar as much as possible!  

Wednesday morning, I dopped Emily off at band camp, finished packing, and Billy and I drove down to Detroit, because flying from Lansing had too many long layovers.

I started my tourist vibes early by taking a picture of Billy taking a picture of our parking zone.


The lines were not nearly as long as they were when we flew to Germany a few years ago, and we'd given ourselves more time, so we had time to explore the terminal a bit before leaving.


There was a delay in loading food service onto our plane, and the delay was long enough that a quick moving storm came through and delayed us even longer.  So, here's a picture of the plane waiting in the rain.


My touchscreen didn't work very well, so I don't know if other people could recenter their screen to actually show the path, but I wasn't able to get it any better than this. = /


This little icon path was better.


Billy and I pick different entrees each time, so that we can share if one is just awful.  But usually I share my food with him, because I have no stomach for eating on the plane.  I did eat some of the roll though.  And Billy gave me his, which I ended up eating for breakfast one morning.


Somewhere over Scotland maybe?


My hot tea was pretty good for plane tea!


A quick layover in Frankfurt, where our plane left from the oldest, forgotten sector.  I don't fly enough to know whether or not we do busses to open air loading or not, but we had a lot of bus to open air loading in Europe, but none at all at the American airports.


My first Polish billboard!  I can read most of it, or at least think I can.


Poznan doesn't have a subway system, but does have an extensive tram set up!


We stopped by our hotel to see if we could stash our luggage, and let Billy claim the keys for the hospital room that his coworker left for him at the front desk.  



Luckily for us, our room was ready, so we were able to check in!  I appreciated the numbering of the floors, versus the random letters that they could have used for the Polish words!


The basement level had a sauna, gym and laundry room!



Our room: number 14.


We had stairs in our room, and two bathrooms!  Well, one and a half bathrooms, but still more than I expect at a hotel.


Hi Billy!



The kids would have loved this little nook area.


The view from our room was mostly construction, but you can see the town hall tower over to the left!


Once we plugged in our chargers, it was off to the hospital to get the machine connected to the computer.

Billy was trying to convince the pigeons to get off the tracks, but I guess they don't speak English.


All of these buildings are connected and take up a couple of city blocks. They are all the same color as the basilica, so I think they are all part of the same organization.


Chopin park was very pleasant.  People were in it every time I walked by, even in the rain!




At the hospital, they had this single sign, instead of three separate signs.  The efficiency made me happy, but the sign made me laugh.

Beautiful churches and buildings were around every turn it seemed!


We saw a lapel button with the little girl and her balloon or lollipop.  We never translated it, but figured it mean children crossing.


At the hospital, Billy's work was in the basement.  International symbols are pretty cool, but thankfully there's no radiation currently flowing.


I don't want to get Billy in trouble by taking pictures of his company's machinery and set up, so you get pictures of a Polish ceiling.


and floor.


and plug!


And doorknob, but it was kind of interesting in and of itself, because the company name was very Polish looking to me!


Emergency Exit?


While Billy was doing work stuff, I made a trip to the grocery store to get some provisions for our room, but not water**.   "Wait" maybe?  


The happy little walk guy!


The impatient wait to walk guy!


At the grocery store, I was able to buy an authentic Polish Paczki!


I didn't care much for it; Billy didn't mind it so much.  I'm not a huge fan of cooked fruit though.


A heavenly bread selection!  I had to reign myself in, because it will be freshly made again tomorrow!  So, I only bought two other bread items, this trip.


Corporate Art!  This guy features later, too.


Once Billy finished the work he needed to do, we walked back to the hotel. I put away my shopping, and Billy crashed out.  It felt like 5am for our bodies, and we lost a day going over, but I was too keyed up to sleep.

Pistachio was all the rage in Poznan and Berlin! It seems to be having its heyday here too, which is good news for me, I like pistachios.  I never did translate this sign, so there's a chance it doesn't even say pistachio.


A lovely pedestrian shopping area that led all the way to the city square.  Cars and vans were allowed for deliveries during the day, but at night it was only pedestrians.


Billy observed that Poland was the most exotic place we'd ever been together.  So many of their words have no Latin base, so it's hard to even hazard a guess without context!  Thank goodness for Google Lens and live translation!  I do know like 800% more Polish than I did when I went over there!




This is the other side, which is actually the front side, of the Basilica.


This little turn in the road made me so incredibly happy, I thought it was just too pretty!


When I stepped into the Basilica, it took my breath away.  It was beautiful, amazing, inspiring, awesome, surreal, majestic, wonderous, and dozens of other synonyms.  This might be the prettiest interior of a building that I've ever been in! 


A little history about the Church.


Poznan town square is huge, it's so big, there are shops and museums in the middle of it, next to the city hall.


My first proper view of the city hall.  Facing Northeast.


And a view of the front. Facing Northwest.


Some very narrow shops in the square.


These signs were on many buildings as we were exploring.  According to Google Lens translation, it means that the Polish government is contributing funding to maintain or improve the building.


A stone paved, winding road.  It's hard to tell, but this hill was decently steep.


Top of the hill.  I didn't ever find out what this was historically, but it's currently a museum.


We saw several of these markers around.


These mosaics were made from shiny metal pieces!  There were dozens around the top of building.


In another plaza area, this one was surrounded by vehicular traffic, they had a large art installation that turned out to be a fountain as I got closer!


On the first day I walked around, it was a warm, sunny day, and the fountain spray felt nice.


But a few days later, when Billy and I ventured to the train station and meandered back, it was not a warm day.


This very modern building had a sign that said "shrimp house" on it, so it went onto our "we need to eat there" list.  Sadly, that's a long list, and we were on a short trip, so not everywhere got a visit.


It was early afternoon in Poznan, but middle of the night for my internal clock, so I gave in after this to go catch a nap.

When we awoke it was 3am, but Poznan is a college town, and it was a Thursday night, so there were a surprising number of people about, and businesses were still open!

I liked the angles that the Post Malone billboard created on this wall.


Billy was hungry, so we went to a Kebab place, where even the late night worker had enough English to help Billy with his order!  I ran into very few people who didn't speak English, and only one who also didn't speak German.


The late night, busy pedestrian area!  It was clean and well lit, and I got to show Billy all of the cool locals that I spotted.


My camera kept capturing the lights on the buildings as a teal blue, but to my eyes it just looked white.  The effect isn't unpleasing though.


An early morning view of the city hall!


Playing peek-a-boo with the tower as we looked for the Croissant Museum. Facing west.  I think it might have been this picture that Billy asked me how many pictures I planned to take of this building, but it might have been later.  Either way, the answer was very many.


We found the Museum and noted their hours, so that we could attend an English show, and then watch the goat show afterward!


Late night view of the Basilica, also not blue in person.


Corporate art?


This was a pretty installation as well, but no clue what it represented.


Poznan loves their city hall goats!  They for sure come out at 3pm, and 6pm.  These are not the goats in question, but just one of many, many representations to be found all over the city!



From here we headed back to our room, at least until sunrise.

This truck had an alarm that went off two or three times during our stay!  It would get into a rhythm, then stop, then start back up again.  It only went off one time while we were trying to sleep, thank goodness, but I would be annoyed to be a resident and have it going off that often.


At around 445 we headed back out to watch the sunrise. Just look at how pretty the city hall looks! Facing North Northeast.


The building on the wall had lots of signs in German.  In fact, the door says "art" which is what this is for sure!


While we waited for the sun to rise, I sat on the steps of a monument near the city hall.  Billy refused to sit with me, because he didn't think people actually did that.  Later in the trip, when I was watching the goats, I took covert pictures of me with people behind me on the steps, so that Billy would know that I'm right. lol.  I'm not going to post the pictures here, because I think that would be poor form, but they do exist.



Sunrise over Poznan!


Eventually went to sit with Billy, since he wouldn't sit with me.


A picture of me in front of city hall!  There aren't many people around at 5am, so no coffee shops were even open yet!


We left the city center and found this pretty building.  According to Google Lens, it's a funeral parlor.


These pigeons were all trying to get at a loaf of bread, so I went to grab it to break it open for them, but Billy warned me off of it.  "No, don't do that." But then, as we walked by, he stopped and broke it open for the pigeons!  


I took so many pictures of random, pretty buildings, but am trying to only include the ones that photographed well too.


There were several doors like this, that led to basement establishments.  The doors were so tiny!


This one was bigger!  But it was on the side of a church complex, so not sure where it leads.


This pretty building is a medical school!  It's also quite close to the hospital area where Billy was working.


I think all of these were representations of the art installation from earlier in our trip.  I took these over many days, but grouped them all together here.








One of the roads was under construction, with all of these stones.  We walked by another time, and they were laying them by hand!  And, what's even wilder, is that they were done with the bulk of it before we left!  


A beautiful entrance to a courtyard.


A not as beautiful, but charming in its own way, entrance to a courtyard, just a few doors down.


I caught the birds in flight on my favorite street!  This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip.


Around 7 we finally found a shop serving coffee!


These little convenience stores were everywhere.  I think there were at least 10 within a 4-block circle around our hotel.  Billy looked it up and it means "little frog."


After breakfast we went over to the hospital so that Billy could get a little bit of work in, then it was lunch time!  One of my finds from day one was Billy's American Restaurant.


Popcorn appetizer, instead of chips and salsa or bread.


I was excited to get a breakfast dish, but, ironically for how early we were up, we came just a little too late, and they were no longer serving breakfast. = ( We asked the server what they sold the most of, and they said American's typically order the Trump Nachos.  So, I did so, begrudgingly.


The names of dishes seemed very arbitrary.  The Texas salad had salmon on it, even though they served steaks? I don't know, it was a fun perspective of how outsiders view our culture.


Billy holding up his namesake napkin.  My drink was pretty, and fancy, but not very good.


The nachos were awful.  Even with the tomatoes and sour cream, they could not be redeemed.  I did not eat much.


Billy's Montana shrimp.  Luckily for Billy, I had plenty of nachos to share when he was finished.


Later in the day, I got to see the goat show!  It was novel, but really it is what they make of it there in Poznan and 10/10 would recommend, should you ever find yourself in the area.


This classic car was the getaway car for a wedding at the Basilica.  It took up so much room on the road compared to the local cars!


I think Billy had to run to the hospital to check on something, so I took the long way there. I had spied an Aldi on the map, and what would a trip to Europe be without a stop at Aldi?  This particular Aldi was in the basement, but had a normal sized entrance door.  = ) I tried to get some dark chocolate for my mom, but they had only the same offerings as we have in the states, or possibly fewer!  


I didn't get any closer to investigate, but I think the tie was a fan's addition to the statue, not necessarily part of the original art.


I saw an onion dome and had to go investigate!  Turns out it was just a residence. 


The name of this bar struck me as if an English-speaking person wanted to name a vegetarian bar to sound Polish. lol.


I saw this fountain referred to as Bamberka on postcards and other touristy items, but I don't know if that's the statue's name, or a description of her occupation, or the Polish word for fountain?  Anyhow, I walked straight by her my first time, because I was so enamored with the city hall!  I was excited to find her though, because she was one of the destinations on the sheet of landmark stickers that I bought for Juliet.  Her only request was stickers, so I bought her the super touristy ones.


In our pre-trip research, Billy found this restaurant: The Mexican.


The atmosphere was top notch!  We got to eat outside, and it was a beautiful view!


Free chips and salsa!


My view from our table.  I ended up taking three or four pictures of this view, so that I could get the flag in flight!  Whenever they would come around to celebrate a birthday, they would play the Zorro theme, extra loud, and one of the servers would come out in costume with a sparkler stuck in a cake of some sort. = )  It was really fun, and there were at least four celebrations during our visit. They were possibly the busiest place we ate during our stay.


My tacos.  They have a spice that I must only eat in Europe, because they tasted 'like Germany' to me.  But no idea what the taste is.  They were okay.  Better than the Trump nachos at least.


Oh look, a new angle of the city hall! I'm facing Southwest in this shot.


We decided to jump around to a bunch of bars to visit as many places as we could in our short time.  This was the rock and roll bar underground.  We were the only customers, and our bartender ignored us, so we didn't stay long.


Our next stop was at a shipped themed restaurant.  Everyone was seated outside here, so we had the room to ourselves!


I saw a group of guys go down with beers a couple of times, but when we went downstairs to go to the bathroom, the guys were gone, their beers half drunk, and I never even saw them leave!!!  It was slightly concerning, especially with all the doors leading off the labyrinth of a basement level.


Our final stop of the evening was at a garden-ish place.  It was pleasant, but I think it would have been a beautiful breakfast stop. I'm sad we wasted our visit there on a night cap!


The next day we went to the English Croissant Museum presentation.  There were so many nationalities represented, including a group of high school students who I think were in Poland for a year abroad!



They kept bringing up volunteers, and the guys running the show were very entertaining, so they teased the victims volunteers, and it was really enjoyable.  I felt weird taking pictures of strangers, especially the small children who weren't mine, but when they broke out this legitimate sword for the student to cut the dough, I had to get a picture!


Since we did our Croissant visit on Saturday, the square was the busiest I'd seen it for the goat show!  We got to watch the goats from a second story window as part of our tour.


Oh look, a new view!  West Southwest.


A better picture of the goats!


William and Juliet were my two hardest to buy for this trip, because it turns out Poznan loves Pusheen, and I was able to score all sorts of merch for Alice!  So, on the way back, we got William a goat chocolate lollipop!


Another one of our pre-trip finds was Evil Steakhouse.


They had evil salads, and evil kids meals, the works!


They did not give us bread, which was a big point deduction in my rating, but the steak also wasn't great. I did like the salad, it had a light Italian style dressing, and Billy enjoyed his onion rings!


After a late lunch, I wanted to explore further out from the city center, so we walked through a park, and saw less touristy parts of Poznan!  This mall was technically still part of the touristy area, but after we left the mall, we saw more of the residential part of the city.


Old man's beard!


This modern apartment complex, with its boxed balconies, looked really novel!


As we wandered around, I found this cute little place called Nooks on the map, so we made our way to it.  Turns out, it was a Michelan star restaurant. oops.



But let me just say, they gave us bread!  And if you look at the dish to the far right, that is a lobster roll appetizer.  It was the most delightful food I've had in years, it gave me a feeling of euphoria, and that is not an exaggeration.  Every bite was delicious; we cleared the dish!  We somehow also ordered some beef tartar, which was tasty, but sadly, we weren't that hungry, because we'd just eaten and hour before, and had another course coming!  The main course was a steak, and it was also delicious, especially after the disappointment at Evil Steakhouse.  


Goats, goats everywhere in Poznan!


When we sat down, Billy had teased me that a spider was going to jump out at me, and by the end of our meal, this guy crawled out to say hi, but did not, in fact, jump on me!


It was a rainy morning, when I needed to go to train station to get my ticket to Berlin. So, we attempted to take the tram, but the map at our stop was out of date, and the tram we needed never came through.^  Luckily, there is a touristy bus that runs only on the weekends, and so we were able to take that, but had to pay differently for a special ticket. 

Grace had also sent us a nifty McDonald's in Wroclaw, that we were going to make a day trip to go see.  Sadly, when we got there, the first kiosk we used was faulty.  The second one would tell us that there were seats available, only to say that there were not when we went to select our seats.  We tried one more with the same result, then went to stand in the customer service line.  There were two queues, so I waited at the information counter first, to ask which one I needed to get a ticket to Berlin.  They said either would work, so we waited in the short line.  As we waited, I finally saw the ICE signs, and of course, they were over the windows for the longer line.  So, we stood in one more line, but I did finally secure a ticket to Berlin for Wednesday!

The kiosk wasn't nearly as smart as the ticket saleslady, and tried it's best to tell us that the Wroclaw train was indeed full, and they would sell us standing tickets. Obviously, we did not want to stand for the two hour trip to Wroclaw or the two hour trip back, so, we missed out on the cool McDonald's even though it was only a couple of hours away. = (


Once the matter of travel was settled, Billy tried some fast food from the train station.  The interior looked just as cool as the exterior!



It was a little disappointing to not follow up on Grace's recommendation, but the rain had tapered off, so we walked over to the park and fed the pigeons all of our leftover bread (that I had carried around all morning.)  Feeding the birds improved both of our moods and once we were out and the birds abandoned us for greener pastures, we started making our way back to the city center.


I thought this fence with only vertical poles was really clever, and it looked solid from a proper angle!



They had a vintage trolly parked outside of the university library.


As we walked past a coffee and dessert shop, Billy lamented that he was never one of the people who got to have cake and coffee in the middle of the day.  I was like, then why not now?  So in we went.



It was late in the day for coffee, and even at this point in the trip our sleep schedules were muddled, so we passed on the coffee.  Our schedules were not aligned with either our destination nor home time zone, I would wake in the night, then doze, and it gave a dream-like feel to the trip.


After our treat, we headed back to our known city center area, and came across a man in a park that was feeding pigeons, but he was feeding them, while they were perched on him!  I could tell that Billy now had a new goal. 

As we approached the city center, we could hear jazz music!  By following the music we found a Jazz & Rock festival going on!  The band was quite good, and gave me all the New Orleans vibes. 


We were inside the Basilica pavilion area, facing west here.


Unfortunately, we were only there for the final set, and they said their goodbyes, then started changing bands.  During the interim, they had a presentation where lots of people spoke, and it was all in Polish, so we weren't getting much out of it, since my Polish still only consists of half a dozen words or so.  I did catch 'thank you' and 'hello' a few times!


While we were sitting on the super long bench, a Buick Terraza drove by! I was like, what? That's wild. So I chased it down through the plaza, but only managed a side view photo.  It wasn't the same year as ours, but they only manufactured them for three years, so for such and obscure van to be in Poznan is pretty wild in my opinion!


Once the new band set up and was only playing classic rock and roll (think early Beatles and Elvis.) We decided to go have dinner. 


We were only about a block away from the music, so we had wine, dinner, and live music while watching all the people walking by in this quaint, rather large, city!


Billy and I shared the meat and cheese plate.


But the tomato and mozzarella was all mine.  It was only served with olive oil, but when we requested balsamic vinegar, they brought it out in the cutest personal carafe ever, and I didn't take a picture!


Twilight view of the city hall! Facing North Northwest.


The next day, after Billy completed his tasks at the hospital for the day, we stopped by the free library box to drop off a book that I had finished on the plane.  With the number of English speakers in Poznan, I probably shouldn't have been surprised, but I was: it wasn't even the only English book in the box!


After the book drop, we walked until we found a good spot to sit and feed the pigeons the leftover bread that I was carrying around, again!


Billy finally got to live his Disney princess dreams and feed the pigeons while holding them!


After the pigeons, top priority was hand washing, then lunch or dinner at one of the restaurants his coworker had recommended.

A random parking lot/courtyard, but it sure is pretty!


We did a little research on the name, and it turns out the restaurant serves Croatian fare!


The inside looks like the outside!


Billy got a burger and a coke, I got the chicken skewers.  In hindsight, we decided that we should have just split mine.  It was very good, but way too much!


I didn't take pictures of all four fountains, but this one was right outside our lunch stop, so I took a picture.


Next to the fountain was this adorable 3D map of the city center.  I found it by being nerdy, playing Pokemon go, and saw it as a Pokestop.  Thank goodness for nerdy hobbies!


Another view of the city hall?  Facing SW.


Billy and I stayed close to our hotel, because we were had a load of laundry in the wash. We did venture out to a tiny little bar that we had walked by dozens of times, because we spent our trip walking and eating, or so it seems!


There was no interior area for patrons, so you either stood at the bar or sat out on the deck. = )


The view from the patio, with the night tram in action!


When it came to doing laundry, the units were free to use, but it was tricky to get a load in, since they were constantly in use.  Billy picked the 'eco' option when our turn came about, which turned out to be a four-hour cycle! = 0  Once he did move them, we found out why the dryers were always in use, because they didn't work very well.  After two hour rounds, our clothes were still somewhere between wet and damp, so we took the load back to our room and let them air dry on the railings!


At a Zabka, I grabbed a Dubai Paczki from their bakery window! I liked it better than the Dubai chocolate bars, but it is still not my favorite type of Paczki.


The day before I was due to head to Berlin, we were met with rain!  Billy had some work to do at the hospital, and I wanted to go to the thrift stores that I hadn't yet visited.  I did by a few things, but most of the stores only had clothing and accessories. 


It rained enough that I ended up buying umbrellas for us while out shopping!  After Billy was finished working for the day, we finally went to the Shrimp House!  Billy ordered the shrimp box, and I ordered the curry.  The option was 5 or 7 pieces, and I only wanted the five, but Billy talked me into getting seven, so that he could have a couple.

This beer was my favorite one that I had the entire trip, and Billy inadvertently bought his first ever alcohol free beer.  I got to taste it too, and it tasted a little like apple juice! 


While we were waiting, we were discussing how expensive this place was! It was a little over $50, for two entrees, one beer, and one alcohol free beer.  Mall prices are always such a rip-off.

Well, when our buzzer beeped, Billy went to grab our meal, but the cashier had to help him bring over our food, because, he had ordered a family sized shrimp meal!  Y'all, I was laughing so hard tears formed. I can only imagine what she was thinking when Billy ordered the family meal and then told me to add more shrimp to mine. The price made so much sense after that.


Billy did help me eat mine, after all, because his was easier to take with us in the doggy bag.  My very tasty, individual sized, curry.


Once we were filled to busting with shrimp, we packed up the rest to bring with us.  We saw signs advertising a bowling alley, on the top floor, so we made our way up to check it out.  We found a thrift store, and gyms, and spas, and finally the entertainment zone!

They had dozens of shuffle boards, and we decided that that sounded like more fun than bowling, so we played 4 rounds of shuffleboard, winning in equal measure.


I got fussed at for eating some of the leftover shrimp, since it came from a different level, I guess?  The bartender wasn't mean about it, but I thought it was kind of a mean rule, since we were spending money on drinks and games, and it wasn't like we were taking a table from someone else who would have been waiting.  Some places are like that in the States too, so I get it, but it did mean we wasted more of the shrimp, since I was no longer hungry by the time we went back to the hotel.


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At this point, I pause my Poland recitation, as I travelled to Berlin^^ early the next morning.
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My train came back to Poland in the early evening, maybe 6pm?  It was only a three hour trip, which was shorter than my trip up from Freudenstadt a few years ago!

Billy came to pick me up at the train station, using the tram!  His card worked on the kiosks, so he was able to get us both return tickets too!

After dropping off my travel bags, we went out for one last dinner in Poland, since our plane left late the next morning.

We tried to go to the traditional Polish restaurant that I found pre-trip, but they closed earlier than many of the nearby restaurants, so this was actually our second choice, and the picture was from an earlier, daytime, walk.  


I didn't get reception in the basement, so I had to take a picture then go upstairs to use Google Lens.


This was the only staircase, used by patrons and waiters alike.  Very pretty, but tricky to bring food upstairs I would think!


Their menu was small, so Billy got the pizza, and I got a traditional Lithuanian soup.  Admittedly, it didn't smell appetizing when they first brought it up, but it was very tasty!  It was bright pink, and had pickled veggies and the boiled egg was a delicious addition.  Billy wouldn't even try it.


On our final morning, we found that they had changed the Billboard from Post Malone to something else!


The part of the Poznan airport that we saw as we arrived was totally misleading.  The airport was way larger than I thought, and despite our first flight being international, to Munich, they didn't even start checking us in until two hours before the flight.  Once we were through security, where we no longer have to take off our shoes, we were funneled through their duty-free mall.  We didn't buy anything, but I did like this display!


In Munich we had to go through customs, but the layover was unremarkable otherwise.  In Chicago, we also had to go through customs and make it from terminal two to five, while claiming and rechecking our luggage and going back through security.  We were not able to make our scheduled flight, so they bumped us to the 10pm flight, which had us getting into Detroit at midnight, and then driving home!  

It was a whirlwind of a trip, but oh so lovely, and I will say that I would happily go back to Poland!

later days

*In May, there was a week that would have been super easy for me to dip out and go with Billy, and it was so close to happening, but they ultimately decided that they didn't need him to go.  While it was a short-lived dream, it was disappointing that Poland was on the table, then taken away.  So, in a way, this was kind of a second-chance trip.

**The hotel, and plane, and train for that matter, all provided us with free water!  It was very nice.  You still had to buy it at restaurants though. In our hotel, we had two bottles that we could bring to the front desk for refills whenever we needed.

^The map said we needed 5 and we never once saw 5 come through!  Billy looked it up online later, and it turns out we needed 95 to get to the train station. To add to our woes, my bank card also didn't work at our kiosk, which made me super nervous, and I had to call into our bank, once they opened, but since I didn't have my other card with my member number, they weren't able to help me.  Billy was able to call, and they looked it up through his side and didn't know why it was being weird.  Our cards were a little bit of hit or miss in Poland, because I never had any trouble at ATMs.

^^My Berlin post will not be permanently published.  It will be included in the printed version of my blog, but Lotti's parents have asked me to preserve her online presence until a time that she can decide how or if she wants to be online at all.  So, if you want to see my Berlin trip, I'm happy to show off my blog to you, in person, after it's printed. = )

edit 8-22-25: backdated for continuity.

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