The Best of Poland

This summer the boys spent two weeks at Wood Skateboard Camp, near Radom, Poland. While they were in camp, Bob and I toured Poland. Before dropping the boys off, we stopped to see the Göltzsch Viaduct, the world's largest brick bridge, the Basteibrücke, near Dresden, and the town of Görlitz, where The Grand Budapest Hotel was filmed, on the German-Polish border.

After dropping the boys off, Bob and I drove to Warsaw. There we saw the Palace of Culture and Science and the Stare Miasto (old town),

as well as the Monument to the Warsaw Uprising, Praga, and the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall.

From Warsaw we went to the Masurian Lake District, where we visited Swieta Lipka,a pilgrimage church, and Wolf's Lair, Hitler's home and bunker from 1941 until 1944.

Our next stop was Kazimierz Dolny with a side trip to Prostki, where Bob was born.

From there we traveled to Zamosc and Liski to visit Bob's aunt and cousin.

Then we were off to Lublin to visit Przemko, where we watched the Perseids meteor shower from his garden.

After picking up the boys, we spent our last night in Poland in Wroclaw.