Saturday, February 18, 2012
Postcards sent by us - Warsaw - 5.6.1970
Warszwa - Lazienki - Plac Na Wyspie, Swiatynia
Sybilli, pomnik Fryderyka Chopina, Belweder
To - Dr & Mrs M. E. Griffiths, Dominion Circuit, Deakin. ACT 2600. Australia.
Grand Hotel (Yes!!) Kruxza 28, Friday 5th June, 1970
Hi Folks - Going fine - two overnight train trips, from Denmark to East Berlin then Berlin - Warsaw have tired us a bit - but the hotel is a good one, super beds, bath and toilet included, phone, everything for a sum of $US5 each!
Warsaw fairly grim but very interesting, lots of people about, some decent shops, luxuries dear as poison. Lots of Police etc and our border crossings are full of form-filling, passport checks, but no hitches so far.
The currency market is a racket - most of the Iron Curtain official rates are absurd so a black market flourishes - they accost us in the streets in Warsaw offering fantastic rates of Zlotys (Polish money) to the $US. One day in Berlin East, very delapidated but fascinating. Today Warsaw. Sunday arrive Leningrad.
Love Dave and Pennie XXX
Lazienki Palace
Chopin Statue.
Belweder.
All three above from Googlemaps.
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