Friday, May 20, 2011

European Outing

This week I met up with some of my American colleagues in Europe for a trip to our plant in Poland.  Overall, it was a great trip although now I’m just completely wiped out (more brain dead than anything) and ready to spend some time not traveling.  I was also able to reconnect over a few beers with an old friend who is now stationed in Poland, which I enjoyed immensely.

Our plane connected through Zurich and I almost cried at how beautiful the Swiss Alps were in the background during our descent.  The below picture is an absolute travesty, but hopefully you can make out the alps in the background, past the jetway.  I’ve got to figure out how to get the family back here.  I also picked up some flavors of Ricola that I’d never seen before – cranberry and orange.  Oh, yeah.

We landed in Berlin and took a train into Poland, below are a few pictures of the Poland leg, I’ll cover Berlin in a separate blog.
My apologies to the Zurich tourism board for this terrible picture.

Berlin train station.

I had never seen Canola growing before, it's the yellow stuff.

Best hotel in Kutno where there were no sheets on the bed, just this odd terrycloth cover for the mattress.

Beautiful church in the background; Poland is almost completely Catholic.

Picture down a walking street.  On the left you can see the beer garden, which was quite common in both countries.  The beer was great, although the street was just not full of life like I had hoped.

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