"Where Am I?" a Warsaw Travel Page by johngayton

Being excreted from the concrete bowel that comprises Warszawa Centralna I had to have a double take of my first impression of Warsaw - there was a certain familiarity to the immediate visual. Who stole what from whom? The pics that aren't Warsaw's town hall are in fact from Buffalo NY - plagarism or coincidence?

Hmmm?

I'm not sure whether I enjoyed Warsaw or not: I had a few beers, a few wodkas, pleasant enough place to wander, nice people, but not a place that I found easy to connect with - perhaps my own mood at the time, perhaps the fact that the weather was so dismal (admittedly it was early January) and that the daylight hours were so short - a revisit I don't think would go amiss - maybe next year and get a visa for a Russian visit to loop around.

I wandered: old town and new; main drags; off side streets; miles and miles, quite often finding myself as the only customer in what should have been John bars - but the only one I found that sort of suited me was an "Irish Pub" - everywhere else was just too upbeat for me. The "Irish Pub" was OK - not really Irish at all: it did sell Guinness and Jameson's, though these were perhaps the only Irishnessnesses about the place - but I do feel a certain disappointment in that it became my local haunt (Zwiec and Wyborka rather than ....) - not a John thing - but the food was good, the service friendly; I may as well have been in London, apart from the different language - all a bit of a nowhere, a city looking for itself - just like London!!