What, a rainy day?

6472 This is my sandwich at the cafe in Poznan.

6474 The Poznan Cathedral

6480 To keep our minds off the rain Nic had a trivia contest on the bus.  60 general knowledge questions.  You could have up to 6 on a team.  We had 4, a couple from Australia and D and I.  We got 51 out of the 60 for the win.  Our prize was a large box of the chocolate sticks you see flanking the frame.  We passed them around the bus and still had some left over when they came back.  The postcard is Poznan on a better day and the large delicious thing in the center is a sweet perogi in Poland.  We call it a raspberry filled glazed doughnut. 

 

June 25 – Warsaw to Berlin, Germany.  Another travel day today.  It's been nice staying two nights at every place.  Gives you time to regroup and do some laundry that would not dry in just an overnight stop. 

 

I knew it was bound to happen and it finally has.  We have our first, cold, wet and windy day.  A good time for a travel day except for Paul, our driver.  He's got a tough job.  In addition to driving he has to load and unload the luggage from the bus when we change locations.  He has to clean the bus and wash the windows.  I'm sure he has more duties but I don't know what they are.

 

We are stopping for lunch in the town of Poznan, a historic place in Poland.  It's got a very pretty town square that was spared from damage during the wars because there are no strategic targets here and it's so small.  We'd have taken a short walking tour with Nic, our Tour Director if the weather was nicer but today we're getting the whole stop for lunch time.

 

Diana and I hit a small café on the city square that had a menu with soup and sandwiches.  She had Polish cabbage soup and I had a sandwich of Parma ham, buffalo mozzarella, tomato and lettuce.  The bread was dense and dark, almost pumpernickel but not quite.  It was delicious.  Diana's soup had lots more than cabbage in it, I might have called it a stew.  She reported that it was very good.

 

I went to the church on the square but it was locked up for the day.  Maybe it's always that way.  It's pretty from the outside.  The lower part looks very Venetian and the upper part Gothic fortress.  I'm pretty sure that this church also served at the city's line of last defense, keep if you like. 

 

When we reboarded the bus everyone was a little wet but no one seemed to be complaining.  I think we all know how fortunate we've been with the weather.

 

At our afternoon stop Nic brought a large bag back to the bus with him.  It was full of sweet raspberry pirogues, known as glazed jelly doughnuts in the USA.  We had to promise not to eat them until we got to the hotel because they'd make a mess on the bus.  We all happily agreed.

 

We drove a long day today and there's no evening program so it was definitely time to do some sink washing and rest up.  Tomorrow is going to be busy.