Back again

Susi left for Africa yesterday.  At the airport with teaching assistant and fellow students.  The other pic is at Swami and friends gathering  at Canandagua Lake.

Singapore "Trick-eye" museum

Poland slide show.

Fire tower of St. Mary's church. The trumpeter plays here.

Dinner at Wierzynek, founded 1364

Herrings at Wierzenyk

Market Square from Wierzenyk

Examining a menu

In the underground museum. The partial stone walls are the stalls of the 15th century market.

Ashwani and Jess consider the amber.

Really glad it rained. 

Wentzl's.
If you click on this, you'll hear the Hejnal.

In St. Mary's

Trumpeter playing the hejnal.

Fire tower

Grunwald Memorial. Barbican gate and St. Mary's in the background.

Stairs of the fire tower. Ewa and I decided to skip this climb.

We sat here on top of the market instead.

Gdansk

We are in Gdansk. I really loved Kraków. One of the best museums I've ever seen is their archaeological museum. It's under the main market square. It's the remains of the 15th century market. Also, the trumpeter was lovely. And the cathedral. And the concert we went to was fantastic.

Gdansk is nice, but more touristy. Yesterday we drove up to the spot on the coast where Ewa used to spend summers. The Baltic wasn't all that cold, and I wished I had brought brought my swimsuit.

We went to Auschwitz and Birkenau.

We stayed a night in Lodz, where Ewa grew up. It reminded me of Rochester, but more Soviet. We visited the home of an industrialist that had been turned into a museum. Our hotel was very, very chic. It was in he industrialist's factory. Now we are going to see the Solidarity museum.

I have put some pictures on Flickr.