The first thing that we realized while driving from Warsaw to Krakow is that this is very much an agricultural/rural region of Poland. There's lots of farmland and wide open spaces with a few little towns or villages along the way. Oh, and the main road? It's a two-lane highway with no major concern for speed limits outside of the towns. If someone's going too slow then you just whip out and pass them on the opposing traffic lane. A bit wild but once Steve knew the game we were doing it too. I think he said that we were going 125 mph at one point. Yeah, I can believe it! Of course Poland's roads also have a very high number of traffic accidents. That too I can believe. It took a little over three hours to get from Warsaw to Krakow.
We thought that the telephone poles were interesting. They're made of long pieces of concrete with brick openings. Sometimes there's one, two or even three poles. The third pole isn't often in a tripod configuration, but more often used as a support for the sagging two-pole design seen here.
There were variations of these little caution signs whenever you headed into the towns. This one has had a little "help" from the local teens in its design. Too funny, I didn't notice the man's "addition" until now.
How could you not "krak" a smile when seeing this car dealership? Obviously this was in Krakow's city limits.
Most of the architecture wasn't too amazing, but I really liked the roof on this little church. I wonder if it was inspired by Russian architecture at all?
The Poles are a very nice people ... some speak English, but even if they didn't we were able to communicate well enough. We stayed at a great place in Krakow, Hotel System Pop - where the color of choice was orange! The room was furnished in a very modern IKEA sort of way with lots of space. The downstairs lobby had four computers for hotel guests to use. And our stay included a very nice breakfast buffet. What more could you ask for? And I found out what blogger looks like for Polish speakers while leaving a comment for a blogger blog. Very interesting!
