I’m glad the Christmas and New Year holidays are over. Having just relocated to a new country where I don’t know anyone and I don’t speak the language, I definitely got the holiday blues this year. Being so far away from family and friends made me feel quite lonely at times, especially around Christmastime. It
It’s good to be back. Back in Poznań, Poland, that is. I took the train from Łódź to Poznań on 11 December 2018, as I did from Warsaw to Łódź a week earlier. This time, however, instead of a direct ride, I had to transfer. Twice. I rode from the central train station in Łódź
It’s interesting how different historical fates can make two cities, even in the same country, look completely dissimilar. Warsaw was pretty much completely flattened during World War II. Between the Nazis blitzing their way in in 1941, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, the Warsaw (entire city) uprising of 1944, and the thorough German reprisal