First, I bought some bread for breakfast at carrarfour and walked to the museum of science and technology. The building looked nice but did not get inside.
Then, I walked to the garden where a palace and castle were located. It took around 20mins walk. The park was quite big and nice. I walked to a statue surrounded by water.
Then, walked to a palace. It was being repaired and so I could not see the whole thing as part of it was covered. And the palace was quite small, should not be called as a palace. The view of it from a river was nice.
Then I walked to a "castle". Technically it was not a castle and was quite small. Then, I left the park and took a free-ride bus to the old town. I asked a Polish pretty girl about which stop to take. Generally I think Polish girls are quite pretty. I got off at old town. Wow..It was beautiful.
I bought a icecream neaby and walked to the statue where was the meeting point of a free walking tour I was going to join. The tour guide was nice and friendly. It took around 2hours to walk around the old town. First, he talked about the statue which was replaced twice and was built to commemorate the Polish king. He also told us Krakow was the old capital of Poland but he moved the capital to Warsaw as it was more central and farther from Austria. Then, we walked a bit inside the old town and stopped at a shop with a pigeon on top of a door. I did not remember all but probably about a woman feeding the pigeons. Then, we stopped at a half-woman-half-animal thing.
He told us there was a story behind that the thing always sang songs to seduce men, and so women hated it and put it inside a cage. A man set him free but she did not want to leave Warsaw. So, it became a symbol of Warsaw and as the men had a name with War and the thing had a name with szawa.. so it was named Warsazwa. Interesting story. We then walked toward to a plaque on the ground and it said Warsaw became on the list of UNSEO as it was rebuilt in a very authentic way. The market was nice.
People sitting under the unmbrella, having lunch. He later showed us a symbol with PW in one symbol and it means Poland fight in Polish, kinda encouraging people to fight until the end. Interesting to know. We then headed to the new town and passed through a gate which was nice. At new town, we stopped at a museum of a famous Polish woman. Her family won a lot of 諾貝爾獎 and she got one too by discovering two new chemicals, one of which was named PO, probably because it meaned Poland.
Then, we walked to a kind of border of a Jewish ghetto which was a home to many Jewish in Poland.
Now is only 600 Jewish living in Poland. He talked about how Jewish was sent and killed in an efficient way, which sounded scary. We then walked to court of supreme, which was designed by a famous designer.
In his opinion, the three statues symbolize three things but people thought it symbolized his two daughters and his wife LOL. Then we walked down a bit and passed through a plague which showed the full spending of PW.
We stopped at another big statue. The first was about solider fighting againist USSR or Nazi ( I forgot) and the second one showed that a solider was fleeing by getting inside a underground sewage system.
We then headed back to the old town and stopped at a church which was built by a king.
There were 4 statue on the wall and only John did not have bears and he said Jahn statue had a face of the king and this church perhaps was to commemorate him. The tour ended and I gave him some tips. He was really good. I would know nth about the old town without joining a local tour. What a history lesson in Warsaw! I really liked it.
Then, I walked inside the church which was fine. I bought a orange ice though it was not really tasted orange.
I walked along the street and a boy with a girl suddenly asked me if I liked Justin Bieber and of course I said no!! he seemed a big fan of him. I met them again in a sourvenir shops. I then walked around the old town and got inside the new town again. New town I thought was just for people to eat as there was not much to see. And I met them again at new town. Then, we chatted a bit in English and he was really crazy. The girl was fine but not as crazy as he was.
He screamed out loud in polish, ran around, did weird thing, made fun of someone etc. Was every fan of JB crazy?!!!? then, I stopped are Zagieck and said goodbye to them. It was a.restaurant famous for dumplings. I had a dumplings with sweet cream and strawberry, which was delicious but it was quite a lot for one person.
It was raining outside. I got inside some sourvenir to wait for the rain to stop. I bought a leather bags for coins. Rains became light and I left the old town and took a book to university. I walked towards the bridge. The view of both side were nice and I could see the national stadium. Then, I walked back to hostel and cook food for dinner. Watched half of a World cup match of the Netherlands against Argentina and then slept. What a long but happy day!!!
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