A Walk in the Park

Being Sunday we thought it would be nice to take it easy so we headed to Łazienki Park which, through another miracle of Polish pronunciation is pronounced wan-zhehnKOV-skee. For a large city Warsaw has an amazing network of interconnected parks. We were able to walk the twenty minutes to the park without much time spent on roads.

Łazienki Park is noteworthy for two things – the King’s summer palace and open air Sunday Chopin concerts. The summer Palace spans the lake.

Having some time to kill before the concert we stopped for an ice coffee at Trou Madame, a little cafe in the park. The concert venue is an open air bowl with a large statue of Chopin sitting beneath a willow tree. We were lucky enough to find a bench as at concert time the place was packed. We enjoyed a pleasant hour of Chopin played by a very accomplished young woman.

Heading back downtown Dana and I noticed the grounds to the Warsaw War Museum were open so decided we wouldn’t mind having a look. The girls, having less than no interest went off on their own.

While Dana and I wandered the girls went exploring and ended up across the river at a neon museum.

Meeting up again we settled in for dinner at our favourite Polish restaurant chain – Bier Hall.

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