The first impression I got from Warsav was pretty possitive. I guess that, unconsciously, the idea many of us have about the East Europe countrie is kinda decadent. We expect to find something sad and grey when in fact there is not a big difference between them and what we have in the rest of Europe. I dont know about the rest of the country but Warsaw is a proper city, a big financial centre with plenty of open spaces and skycrappers wellcomes the traveller coming from the aiport. In the middle of all this there is an impressive building called “Culture Palace”, a present from the soviets to the city.

By the way, this place was pretty funny, there was an exposition about the media in which one could do things like introducing the TV news or become a radio professional for a second. I dont know if this was supposed to be used by the visitor but, as Spanish people that we are, we had to try it…

After leaving the financial centre, you get into the old city. Warsaw was almost destroyed in the Second World War so all the centre had to be rebuild. For doing this, they used the few still standing pieces of building as models for the new stuff as well as the paints of the city which survived the war. The result is nice, a quiet place to walk arround, with houses painted in different colours, city walls, churches… Unfortunately I do not have to many pictures of these. Here you have a couple of ones with the real “steel partners”, a monument to the polish soldiers dead during the war and one of the churches…

Eating arround was also a must do and we did it in excess, affordable prices and very nice food. They say polish waittres are the slowest in the world, I dont think it was that bad. This place is specially advisible. One of the best restaurants I ever tried, hugh dishes and delicous beer. Next to Guerri´s place, if I was him I would eat there every day.

Not much else to say about the city, more information available here, let´s move to the party issue. This was mainly done in the spagethi´s house. First day we organized a very serious drinking party, for some of us this started at 5 pm and for almost everybody it ended very very late. A great night, I had a lot of fun. Plenty of pictures here, the best ones just below..

The three magic kings together again

And the second night … same thing. This time with some polish participation, steel partners joining against the polish vodka. A new member of the Captain Flint club (Tino), lot of fun in a night I ended up in a weird bar, opened till very late and sorrounded by polish people. In the end I slept in a huge house, property of a Spanish guy I just had met, he even had a jacuzzi! Sunday we were close to go out again but, just once and maybe motivated by the chezq experience, we chosen the quiet plan. We just went to the train station to say goodbye to the “chezq” friends and then for dinner to a french restaurant. This place happened to be the opposite to the one I mentioned before. Very sophisticaded but small dishes, you ordered a big piece of meat and you got a salad. French people..

Tino becoming Flint

Icex meeting

Bye bye…