Travel.... What A Way To Go.... Part The End

At last our friends headed back to Amsterdam and on into Poland. That's when they got to see the Wieliczka Salt Mine that I talked about back at the beginning of this series.  However, our friends did get to spend some time in Warsaw. There they visited Lazienk Royal Park.

A prettier spot you couldn't find I am inclined to believe. Warsaw was mostly destroyed at the end of the second world war. In being rebuilt there was some thought put into its design. It is now a thoroughly modern city that mixes the old and the new quite well. You are likely to see archtecture looking like this....

And this...

But it will always be combined with architecture like this...

or this...

S and G had no trouble getting around there and though they spoke no Polish were able to feel confident and free in their moving around although the y did find this somewhat daunting.....

It made for a lovely trip to feel that they could move around the city with no fear or angst.


After Poland, they made their way back to Amsterdam and further into the Netherlands where S had family to visit.

Amsterdam was a city of cafes and canals....

and when asked about the drug situation... S and G said they did not see it and were not concerned about it at all.

I'm sure that if you are like me then you think of the Netherlands as this....

and indeed S and G were able to bring back flower bulbs of different varieties to us. Except that not all bulbs can be brought out of the Netherlands and into Canada. They have to be specifically marked as checked and ok for Canadian customs. An interesting fact to remember if I ever get to visit.

Finally Sand G headed off into the country to visit with S's relatives but while there they were able to visit a working windmill and while I don't have pictures of it I was able to find this which is similar to the one that my friends visited.

I also was able to find this video of a working wind mill... please have a look because it is quite interesting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNlc8Jj1F-Q

So I hope over the last few installments of Traveling to Europe with me has been interesting and informative... and if any of you happen to get over there because of these blog posts I would love to hear from you....

I do have to say that I feel like I have been on a mini vacation over the last week. I guess reality needs to finally hit home and bring me back to Hudson's Hope where for the last two days we have been getting higher than normal temperatures and with it has come freezing rain and slippery ice everywhere. Christmas as of today (being the first day of Advent) has brought a new atmosphere to us in our neck of the woods. teapot has been away in the bush winter camping with the Rangers ans so while the cat's away... the mice have played.... that being the Daughters and I. Teapot came home today to a Christmas tree and much decorating going on... I'm biting the bullet and thinking ahead... Now I just have to get those gifts sorted out.
 
I hope you will come back tomorrow and join me as we approach Christmas and all that goes with it. I will be back to working on my workbook for level 5 and knitting those S-cks... I can't believe how nicely they are turning out. So far there's be nary a complaint from the toes.... I think they are comatose from being stunk out in my now overly worn and seriously forlorn Christmas slippers of 2010. I may just have to knit them a pair of their very own socks!