It's Prounounced Varshava

So Warsaw was miserable. To be fair I was sick. But I was also quite bored. Speaking to other Polish people outside of that city, they say the people they know there love it. It must be some really REALLY underground culture that's hidden from us outsiders. Let's just say it's not tourist friendly.

Because everyone bombed the shit out of the city it was rebuilt. However, it was rebuilt during the time of communist rule. (Did you know that communist buildings are quite similar to Nazi buildings, except Nazi buildings are more aesthetically pleasing?)
The communists built large cement blocks, with sculptures of creepy looking working class folk everywhere. And by large I mean huge. Communist architecture, especially that built by Stalin makes you feel small. But not small like big trees make you feel small. I'm not in awe of the building, they're just scary.

There is a series of ugly underground malls. A lot of big buildings with not much in them are on the ground level, and the most useful stores are underneath...where the trolls live.

There is no major highway bypassing the city, so everyone has to drive through it. This makes the roads unnecessarily big. Like wise the sidewalks are huge for only a small number of people actually willing to walk. I must admit we took the trams a lot and *cough* didn't pay.

Really, the city has not a lot to offer tourists. But what it did have to offer was poorly signed, therefore difficult to find.
We did manage to find the geeky technology museum which is a throw back to the 50s. This museum essentially lined up 20 different vacuume cleaners from the 1900s to the 1950s. Because the signs are in Polish, the only thing any of us could learn was the aesthetic evolution. ...Lovely.
They also had iron smelting Dioramas. Awesome!
The coolest, and slightly saddest part of the museum was this really keen, well educated older lady who explained to us basic scientific experiements - like that ball thing where they keep hitting each other in a row. It's sad becuase she obviously has no one to talk to ever, and is clearly really intelligent. The museum was primitive, with mostly hand painted pictures, and hand written signs. I liked it. But that was actually the highlite of the trip.

We managed to find a bombed out bank which was part of the non Jewish uprising in 1944. That was really cool looking! We also walked through a the royal park and the old city. The old city was built in 1960-2000 becuase it no longer existed. It was pretty, but a very typical tourist trap.

On our last night there was a free charity concert going on, so we walked over to see that. We stayed for aout 10 singers (each singing two songs and went home)

.....and that's about it.
Happy we went, can't say I'd ever go again.