July 30, 2010 The last day of the tour

Our last city tour was of Warsaw, Poland. We started the tour walking through a beautiful park. Everything in this part of the world is so green and full of vegetation. Coming from a desert, it was amazing all throughout this trip to see so much green and so many rivers and a lot of rain. That, of course, is why it is so lush and beautiful.

Another plaza. These cities in Eastern Europe all have many of these where there is only walking, no vehicles at all and I thought they were great.

This is an area that has been completely rebuilt since WWII. The Nazi's blew up all of these buildings before the city was liberated by the Soviets and they have been built to look as they did before but you can tell that they are not "old" old buildings. Everywhere are these sidewalk cafes where you can stop to get something to eat. We had lunch at one after the tour was finished.

We also were taken to the area of Warsaw that was called the Ghetto where the Jews were confined before they were sent to the concentration camps. The first winter 100,000 died in the Ghetto from disease caused from the cold and unsanitary conditions. If you read Mila 18 by Leon Uris, this is the area he wrote about in that book.