A visit to Warsaw
A few days spent in Poland's capital, completely destroyed during World War II, drab and grey during the following decades of Communist rule, now a vibrant European city of 1.7 million people.
16-20 August 2022
Łazienki Park, a wonderful oasis in the middle of Warsaw, built by Poland's last king Stanisław August Poniatowski in the 1760s. He was otherwise quite inept as a ruler, and beginning in the 1770s, Poland was gobbled up by Russia, Prussia and Austria-Hungary and ceased to exist in 1795.