Eastern Europe

We Are All People Even Though We Don’t Speak The Same Language

Wondering around Poznan in Poland, we walked into recommended restaraunt for cheaply priced Polish food. Unfortunately, as we just arrived in Poland, our ability to read Polish was pretty minimal. This was actually the first place we hit that we didn’t understand or recognize anything on the menu at all. We politely asked the old lady behind the counter if she had an English menu. After some heaitation, in Seinfeld, Soup Nazi, “No Soup For You!” fashion, she gave an […]

Saturday Night and a Sunday Morning in Poznań’s Old Town Square

Sitting directly between Warsaw and Berlin, Poznań has been an important European city for centuries.  As typical with many European cities in the area, Poznan was destroyed in World War II.  Careful reconstruction has brought back it’s old city charm, which is beautiful and apparent walking throughout the city and especially in and around Stary Rynek (Old Town Square). Here in the Old Town Square on Saturday nights, restaurant goers and party goers meet, mingle, eat or party all night, […]