Poland's culture and nature - week 2 - Roselinde Vandepitte

Hi bloggers,

This week was awesome! There are so many things to visit and so many different things to see in Poland! As Melisa said, we spent our first days in Warsaw (capital and the largest city of Poland) visiting some museums, such as the Polish Army museum and the ethnographic museum. We also went to some churches and monasteries because our guide at the museum told us it was worth visiting it. And yes it was!

One of the evenings we went out in Warsaw, we found out that vodka is the most important drink, but they also produce a lot of different beers, very nice for beer consumers and those who don’t like vodka. I red in Melisa’s travel guide that Poland is the third largest producer of beer in Europe!

After visiting Warsaw we went on to northern Poland where the Masurian Lakes Plateau (or better known as the Land of a Thousand Lake) is situated. The guide gave us a lot of information on the bus. She said that there are over more than 4000 lakes all linked with waterways. Yes, I was very impressed by seeing so many beautiful lakes and such nice forests! It was very amazing to walk through, especially for those who like nature.

 Lunch or dinner, in Poland’s cuisine you can find seasonal food, territorial food, staple food and especially chicken and pork. I loved the ‘Kotlet schabowy’, this is a Polish variety of pork cutlet coated with breadcrumbs. It is lovely to try some dishes you don’t know!

While travelling from North to South we visited also Krakow. This city is one of the eldest cities in Poland and the second largest. Winter or summer, it doesn’t matter, tourists are everywhere! Krakow is one of the UNESCO’s heritages and is also the city of Pope John Paul II which attracts a lot of pilgrims. Other attractions we did were Barbakan; a military defense wall which surrounds the city, the medieval city center, the 14^th century Gothic Basilica of Virgin Mary and the 13^th century Gothic Town Hall Tower. 

It is in Krakow that you can find Auschwitz. Auschwitz is one of the extermination camps where Jewish people were sent to in WWII. We visited this complex but I felt a little bit uncomfortable because there was a strange atmosphere.

Anyway it was a very nice week in Poland, very beautiful and we even didn’t see nor did everything!

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Roselinde *

Source: http://www.polandforvisitors.com/travel_poland/history