Poland: On to Warsaw
Note: Still catching up on the northern European trip from last summer.We finally got to Poland and the roads just turned crap with one-lane roads being the mainstay. Very disappointing that POland can't get its act together and invest in the road infrastructure. We entered Poland north of Bialystok which is in north eastern Poland and we drove to Augustynka a small hamlet further south. This is where Veronika's mother's family comes from and where they use to have a home and land.
There isn't much there of the hamlet as it is so small and nothing of the house where they had their house. Only a couple trees that marked the entrance gates to the path that went to the house. Under Communism, private land could and was confiscated from landowners and redistributed to farmers. This is what happened with their family land. The family could go through the courts and claim the land back but at present their is no desire to do so.
Like I said the roads weren't good so it took a lot longer than we wished to get to Warsaw. We spent about four days just hanging out with family as it gets tiring being in the smart car, no matter how smartly they designed it.
posted by NV @ 8:25 pm
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