Warszawa

I had a reservation at 4 pm at the Byelorusskiya Station for the train to Warszawa. My last reservation. This was the end of the package I had arranged with Executive Travel in Osaka. For the rest of my trip I would need to make my arrangements day by day.

Somewhere in the night I awoke to the sounds of the train wheels being changed again. The train pulled in at 9:30 in the morning and I managed to get a room at the Metropole Hotel for 590,000 zloty ($45) a night. The Holiday Inn wanted $160. About 1 pm I started to explore the city. First though, I needed to buy a ticket to Dresden at the train station. While I was waiting in line I struck up a conversation with a woman who warned me about the Russian Mafia in the event I should go to Russia.

At this time there were about 13,400 zloty to the dollar. You bought bus tickets like this one and cancelled them when you boarded.

A movie ticket . . . I saw Nagi Instynkt, i.e. "Basic Instinct" for $1.68 (25,000 zl) at a first-run theater. In Japan the movie prices ranged around 16,000¥ (about $13). You wonder, then, why American movie makers would bother with Poland when they could get ten times the ticket price for the same movie in Japan. I'm sure there's an answer.
The truth is out there somewhere . . .

	At this time there were about 13,400 zloty to the dollar. You bought bus tickets like this one and cancelled them when you boarded.
A movie ticket . . . I saw Nagi Instynkt, i.e. "Basic Instinct" for $1.68 (25,000 zl) at a first-run theater. In Japan the movie prices ranged around 16,000¥ (about $13). You wonder, then, why American movie makers would bother with Poland when they could get ten times the ticket price for the same movie in Japan. I'm sure there's an answer. The truth is out there somewhere . . .