Nov 5 Thu - Warsaw, Poland

Today I walked down to the old town and went to the Tourist Info office to find out if I really need to buy tickets for transit, the website says over 70 is free, just show ID... well, the Tourist info people were 2 young people with "trainee" badges on it was like I was the first tourist they ever saw they didn't know anything... lol ... but they new the Castle was free today, they have so many museums here they make a number of them free every day. But I wasn't in the mood for castles did that a couple times this week already I just walked around Old Town and came upon the Uprising Museum which i read the info there outside but did not want to go in, it too was free... but just reading about it outside, lasted 63 days  in 1944 August 8 to October whatever... ! but in the end they were crushed by the nazis and 150,000 people killed, 12,000 uprising soldiers and another 25,000 injured badly, and then Himler said raze the whole city, and the did... 

But a block on came to a nice big old park and walked through there it was more uplifting, saw a thing about the Marie Salomea Skladowski Curie museum thought I might go there, maybe tomorrow... did you know she is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice ? Once in physics, and once in chemistry. 

So back to the grocery hunt well google maps puts me on this route and then says i'm walking the wrong direction so i say hell with it there's supposed to be a Biedronka within a few blocks of my apt so I walk where i remember it to be from the map last night, and I walk right into the central market... 

where there is a little grocery store inside (don't know if its Biedronkas or not) the market and it's a great market so i get everything i want and need and go back to the apt by now it's past 2 so make a salad look for a hotel in Sosnowiec for saturday night find it get it and book my train ticket to there... and get to thinking well I'm not really wanting to do more old town and museums in Krakow, maybe i skip it and go straight from Sosnowiec to Prague and maybe stop at a spa town for a few days on the way... 

Next I read about the Milk Bars cheap fast good pierogies and traditional food so I tried that for dinner and it was great, just a short walk 600 meters or so the other side of the opera where they are filming something the lot is packed and there are tv trucks and a bunch of campers out there for actors or I guess singers ... and it was good. Texted with Grace a little gonna have a video call tomorrow. OK i'm all caught up yay !