So for study purposes I had to go to the German-Polish border and cross to Slubice, Poland. There is an archive there that I had to visit.
Here is the bridge that I walked over, in the distance is Poland.
Hello Slubice! Sister city, Yuma Arizona! Hello Yuma!
The interesting thing about Slubice is that until 1945 it was part of the city Frankfurt on the Oder River. After WWII though anything east of the Oder river was given to Poland. So along the Oder river there are old German cities that were cut in half.
This is a picture of what was called Friedrichstrasse in Slubice. It is now named after a Polish freedom fighter.
From what I have read and also saw, Slubice understandably tends to focus more on the 'EU'-Polish present rather than its German past.
So as always, going to a new place gets me very excited and probably even more so is sampling the local cooking. These are called Piroggi - they're dumplings with a filling that you choose. Good, but a bit on the 'greasy' side....
This was the inner courtyard of the institute/college I went and visited: Collegium Polonicum.
Here is my first Zloty bill. You say it Soo-woh-tee....
There is Frankfurt on the Oder (they say that because there is Frankfurt on the Main River in western Germany) on the other side of the Oder river.
'Once you cross that bridge my friend...' (it's a quote from 'Ichabod Crane')
Heading back to Germany....
The German side of the old border crossing...and that is what the EU does for Europe - no more border crossings! ;)
On to Frankfurt....
