The day home started with frantic packing, distributing heavy objects in amongst all the luggage to lighten the load of other cases. We arrived at the airport well ahead of time and the next challenge was to find where to return the car.We started by following the signs for rental car return.Our first attempt ended up with us driving through the arrivals passenger taxi rank, yet in sight of the Avis signs.Confident now we knew where to return the car we tried ag...

Starting the day on the back foot, we decided to go do some walking tours of the Old Town. We had the guide book, and thought we should make the best of a bad situation. At about 10 am we headed out from the hotel accompanied by a phone conversation from BMW, informing me that they had still heard nothing from the local dealer but would update me as soon as possible. We headed out and then took a wrong turn, spending about 30 minutes waling in the wrong direct...

Everything was so well planned for today, my bike trip to Warsaw would take about 5 hours, so I decided to leave for about 10 am and Amanda's train was at mid-day, and take 3 hours. We would/should arrive in Warsaw for about 3pm. I retrieved my bike from the underground car park of the hotel, but as I tried to start it to move away from the lift entrance the bike would not start. I assumed, as it had run in the underground car park, that I had flooded the bike...

We didn't do too much today, we took a walk through the Jewish quarter of the town, found some markets, then walked back into town by the river, and through the gardens.

Having sampled far too much beer, wine and vodka the previous evening we missed the 9:30 trip to the salt mine, so thought we would just head off on foot into the town to take in the sights. We walked about half a mile into the old town. The sun was shining, the temperature was over 30 degrees Celsius again. The sights in the main square are fantastic. The centre of the square is dominated by the old cloth hall, which is filled with stalls selling amber jewell...