Poland & Görlitz

(As written on August 28th, 2011...)

While we were in Dresden, we couldn't help but make a trip to visit Boleslaweic Poland (Polish pottery, baby!) and Görlitz (the eastern-most city in Germany). We stopped both places last time in 2009, but it was still so fun to go back. And it was even more fun to add to my Polish pottery collection! (Evan wants me to add that I have a bunch of Polish pottery and no hutch to put it in... YET. I'm looking all over Craig's List. Working on it.) If you've seen Polish pottery that's blue and white with the circles on it, (some pictured above), that is made in here in Boleslaweic (pronounced Bowl-es-la-veetz).

I'll tell you what, though, going to a non-German speaking foreign country sure makes my students (me too!) realize how much German we all understand. We ate at the same pizza place as last time. It was too delicious to not go back!

We stopped at Görlitz on the way out of Poland. It is a beautiful city that lies directly on the border of Poland. It's so fun to visit and be able to walk across a bridge to Poland. Even more fun, though, is the famed "whisper arch" (Flüsterbogen) where one person whispers on one side of the wide arch and feet away the other person hears it amplified louder than the person even whispered it. SO COOL! I love going to Görlitz if only to go to the whisper arch!