Just a quick note on eating and drinking here. The food in Eastern Europe is heavy. Coarse and wonderful bread, meat and potatoes, dumplings and cabbage. Lots of meat and cheese for breakfast, The local wine disappointing, hearty burgendy like. In Poland we discovered "wodka", delightful and varied. Beer is good too.

In general we have found Poland very cheap. Our hotel is half what we paid in Prague and great. Rick Steves cautions about being "ripped off" in Prague and we had a personal experience. The Poles pride themselves on being honorable and it has been our experience that that is certainly been the case.