First things first about Warsaw, I want to thank Lucazs (a friend of Jared's) for showing me around the city! Although, never again will I try the "meat jelly" -- that was just a little too adventurous for me! That said, we did go to very great restaurants!
Warsaw is about the same size of Columbus, and also has a very large mall -- although that's where the similarities end. About 85% of the city was destroyed during WW2 and was subsequently rebuilt -- with the old town being built in the same style it was before. It was the 4th historic site in Poland to be added to the UNESCO list.
I only spent one full day in Warsaw, so didn't get to fully explore it nearly as much as the other places that I visited on my trip, so this post is more bare than some of the others - sorry about that!
I will say, if you go - the Oki Doki hostel was a fairly nice hostel -- however, you may want to ask about the private rooms. Not that I didn't love being in a room with a 14 year old girl and her mother from Taiwan, but I did feel like I was at a middle school slumber party and had a chaperone. That said, there was a bit of a party in the bar that provided some entertainment, and made me wish that I had been drinking that evening.
The picture doesn't even come close to doing justice to just how awkward this was to watch...
Lastly, I was not as well prepared on this trip and missed some large events in certain cities -- but have no fear, I did end up in Warsaw for Retina Week. Not going to lie, all the eyes did freak me out a bit.
