Poland

I have been a bit busy at work so I don’t have a lot to talk about in way of what I have been up to but I do have a few things that I did before I started the blog so I will discuss these.  After about 5 days in Germany I had to travel to Poland to visit one of our divisions.   This took place February 1st through the 4th. To get there we had to fly from Stuttgart to Zurich, Switzerland then to Warsaw, Poland.  From Warsaw we had an hour drive south to a town called Rodom.  I had been to this town about 4 years ago.  Let me tell you things have changed a lot in the 4 years.  When I was there I didn’t see McDonalds, Burger King, and IKEA stores.  The road to Rodom was now a two lane divided highway.  The last time I was on it there was parts that were done but no overpasses or gas stations or restaurants. There use to be parts of it that weren’t even paved.  Now it’s has gas stations, hotels, houses, business’s  and restaurants every couple of miles.  Once in Rodom the hotel that we stayed at 4 years ago didn’t have a television in it and it was so small that when you opened up the door you almost hit the bed.  Now the rooms were very updated and looked like one you would find in the United States.  They had wireless internet which worked in the room unlike at the hotel I am living at in Germany. 

 The one thing that I was looking forward to at work in Poland was the lunch.  Last time I was there we had pirogues each of the three days that I was there along with water down potato soup, mash potato’s, and water downed grape juice.  This time it still had the water down potato soup, grape juice, and mash potato’s but we had stuffed cabbage wrapped around hamburger and rice one day and meat gravy over buckwheat the other day.  Granted they were ok just not the pirogues that I was looking for.  I did get some pirogues at the hotel for dinner one night and they were very good. The landscape in Poland is very similar to Michigan.  That must be why there is such a large number of Polish people in Bay City.  They came over to America and said hey this looks like home lets live here.  We left for the airport early in the morning so I didn’t get to many good pictures but you can get the drift.

On the flight back I took a few pictures of Zurich and found the river to lake that we walked to on our vacation a few years ago to Switzerland.

From the air you can see how the cities in Germany are grouped together and then lots of hills and or farm land around it.  Kind of neat to see it from the air.