Warsaw and Opole

Warsaw & Opole The Air France flight NY to Paris was good. Paris to Warsaw just OK. There are no pictures of Warsaw because we didn’t encounter anything particularly interesting. These are Al’s impressions: The society there is unfriendly and greatly unhelpful. Bo took care of her obligations and we were anxious to leave. The 5 hour train ride to Opole was OK. But the Opole train station was another case of ineptitude. From the train platform you have to go down a long flight of stairs then immediately up another long flight to street level. There are no ramps, escalators, or elevator so you have to carry your luggage down then up. Then the jackass cabbie dropped us off at the back of the Avis building so we had to drag our luggage half a block to the front, because he wouldn’t drive around the block to the front. We are very anxious to get out of Poland. The wedding in Opole was good – so was the reception. The next day we drove to Ostrava in Czech Republic and spent the night at Bo’s friend. The next day we started our drive to Warsaw but decided to break it up. We stopped in an unpronounceable town of Mszczonow. Brand new hotel but left a lot to be desired. We got an e-mail from Air France stating air traffic controllers were staging a labor outage June 10 – June 13 and we should go to their website to see about our flight. It showed it was cancelled. We tried to call using the hotel phone but got a message that we have exceeded our allotment. We went to the front desk and the said each room has an allotment of time. We told them that we just got to the room and this was our first call. From the front desk we called a different airline and booked a flight to Paris. Hopefully we will get there. The next day we completed the drive to Warsaw and returned the car. Bo’s only task was to buy a cell phone for her father with simple 1 button dialing to a few numbers. We found a phone but it took 2 people almost 2 hours to program 3 quick dial numbers.