Visiting Poland in RL

[Silent Hunter UK]

It was actually rather hot at times.

I went over to Lublin by train, where the old castle is now the city museum. They had some images of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa and I immediately remember that was in T2K.

[Ursus Maior]

I went to Katowice and Sosnowiec 18 years ago to visit my then-girlfriend. The 20 hours bus trip from West Germany alone was an experience. I loved the trip immensly and found Katowice very worth to live in. Sosnowiec? Not so much, it's a typical socialist crime in architecture.

[KozmasSchmierfink]

We did Krakow and environs, the salt mine and Auschwitz. Krakow was a gem of a city. It's like Prague or Italy beautiful, and I routinely fed the four of us for around 12$ for sit-down meals, not just zapies and big pretzels. After having lived a few years in the UK by the time we visited Poland, I was deliriously happy with the food. Everything was great. There were some seriously good Middle Eastern restaurants in the Jewish Quarter. The people were really nice, especially to our kiddos.
Alas, the covid wrecked our follow-on trip to Gdansk but so it goes.