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Bad start Seeing this newspaper headline as we waited in the British Airways lounge was...
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Meeting Soon after we arrived at our Warsaw hotel, we met our fellow travelers and...
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Warsaw in 1945 Before we visit today's Warsaw, it would be good to see what it...
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The gift Right across the way from our hotel was one of the Soviet Union's...
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World's largest This is the largest outdoor billboard in the world.
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Billboard face I wonder what all the workers inside can see as they try to peek out...
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Memorial Just outside our hotel we found this brick memorial.
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In Memoriam Remembering the Poles who were executed here by the Nazis during the...
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Bridge This brand new bridge was dedicated the day before we arrived in Warsaw (...
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Chopin This statue of Poland's most revered composer stands in a place of...
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Group And what better place for a photo of our touring group ? Oops, it looks like...
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Warsaw Ghetto Memorial A powerful testament to the brave Jews of the Warsaw ghetto who rose...
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Closeup Portrait of some Jewish prisoners heroically rising up against the Nazis. The...
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Old Town You can see Warsaw's Old Town in the foreground of this picture...
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Old Town Square Most of Warsaw was methodically leveled when German troops punished a Polish...
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The man on top That's a former king of Poland standing above the square in Old Town,...
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Before German tank shells destroyed the column in 1944. The Nazis also set...
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And after And here is the Castle today. The Polish people copied the 17th...
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Tour Our group fans out to see the Old Town.
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Carts The only vehicles permitted in the Old Town are these horse-drawn carts.
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Ice cream man He's just as popular here as he'd be anywhere back home .
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Business as usual These locals continue their business as they ignore all of us tourists...
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Time out We stopped for coffee and cake at a little restaurant in front of...
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Resting No, these folks are not with us , but I wanted to show someone even...
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