as the emotions of our polish trip are winding down
the famous opening sentence
from the first video in which Blonnie talked about what was strange for her in
Poland today we're recording a follow-up to that video in which she's going to
talk about what she loves about Poland and we're not doing this to make our
polish audience feel better but the truth is Blonnie really loves Poland so
maybe we should have started with that title instead of creating all this
controversy that came out from the first video if you haven't seen it the link is
on the screen right now and if you have we certainly hope
you'll enjoy this one too
before we get to the main subject of this video our last video was about what
an American found strange in Poland but that's a bit of a misnomer because it
was more about what I liked in Poland so now we're gonna talk specifically about
what I loved on my visits to Poland I've been to Poland four times now and every
single trip
four times?
yeah, was it four or three?
I think it was three times
I've been to Poland three
now and every single time I learned and experienced something else that I really
enjoyed and loved about Poland and the people there
I have been raving to all of my friends and family members here in the US about
how affordable it is to travel in Poland many people here in the US find European
vacations to be exotic and some kind of a bucket list item that they definitely
want to do one day in their life and I just keep telling everybody go to Poland
what just happened we went in there to get Internet for your old cell phone and we got a hundred
gigabyte plan for two dollars I don't understand those four dollars I'm sorry
oh it was double that up that's expensive we've never had a hundred
gigabytes on any plan and we've spent like so much money on our cell phones oh
that is strange positive to you right that's incredibly
wonderful I wonder why everything is so much like
why is the phone system so much more expensive in the US that's like that's
beyond a bargain
go to Poland because it's very very affordable the dollar
difference makes dining out and even souvenir purchases incredibly affordable
all of the hotels that we stayed in were affordable and they included breakfast
one story I keep telling people about is our trip to Torun and my favorite
restaurant I found it on Yelp and it was my favorite restaurant for the whole
trip through Poland it was called Jan Olbrecht, Albrecht I don't know how to
say it but we had food for all four of us plus an appetizer and drinks and you
just cannot get a meal like that for the amount of money that we paid in Poland
here in the US
something I found really appealing about Poland itself as
a country is how beautiful all of the cities were
I remember when we first went to Poland or when I first went to Poland with
David and we saw his hometown which he always described to me as just some
little hometown in Poland we walked to the main city square and I was just
completely enamored with how beautiful everything was I mean all of the
buildings were a beautiful representation of European architecture
and life style my favorite being in Gdansk there were many many beautiful
ones but that one really stood out to me because of the waterfront and the
buildings and all of the unique structures and it was just amazing
walking down that street where all of the amber sellers are I just thought it
was one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been in the past I visited
Krakow we also visited Sandomierz, Poznan, Torun, Warsaw, Gnieznow
Wrocław, I thought it was incredible how they rebuilt Warsaw using information
and photographs and paintings from the past rather than just making it some
modern representation of this city Malbork Castle is also incredible to me
because there was a photograph at the entrance to the castle that showed how
destroyed it was after the war and they rebuilt it instead of just letting it
stay in ruins and turn into nothing it's a very important part of Polish history
and I love how they rebuilt it as it was especially that Cathedral I was in that
Cathedral for quite a long time and then got to go back again with David and his
mom because I thought it was so beautiful
they were wondering for a very long time about
how to rebuild this church
so all the white parts that you see here, this was not there - it was all in ruin
and these parts here are the real medieval
oh, this connector here
if you visited this castle before, it was in different room
it was made available for visitors, it weighs 600 kiligrams [1300 lbs]
there's Holy Mary and Jesus [on it]
600 kilograms!
yes
and you see... that is what they say, that initially it was here in this church
and when the tower went down onto the church during the war bombings
the connector fell down and did not break
David's family is honestly the only polish family I have experience with but
from my an outsider's perspective of his family it seems like polish families are
very close-knit very insular and loving towards each other so he has all these
cousins and there are just like his siblings and they all go to family
gatherings together and they're just so close I mean I know that we have
families like that here in the US and perhaps David's family isn't a
representation of all polish families but this is about my experience and my
experience with Polish families is they're very close-knit very loving and
kind and wonderful
I was watching an American movie "two weeks of love"
and he was there, he acted a small part
it was definitely him, Trump
thin, young, the hair... oh well, the hair he has
I was very surprised
I think now his hair is acutally better...
I like American women because many are the same size as me
come over here talk with us
and I wouldn't have a problem with finding clothes, I could find them over there easily and here I have to walk around a lot...
who is that? you?
it's me and Zbyszek
where was this? when?
you were there for 2 seconds!
I loved how in Poland everything is relatively accessible to one another
because I grew up in Texas and I've heard that Poland is one-third the size
of Texas in Poland we drove around the entire country the longest drive was
like three hours and in the United States it would take you three hours to
get to just the supermarket I like that everything is relatively close and yet
there is such diversity in both the cities and the landscapes we didn't even
get to go to the mountains but we saw the Baltic Sea
we saw the countryside and I know I've seen photos and videos of this beautiful
mountain area that we hope to go to next time
did you enjoy walking around Baranów Sandomierski in the morning?
what?
what's it called?
Baranów Sandomierski
that's the name of the town?
yeah
it was a short walk though
what was your favorite part?
the dog
a cute thing about Poland I discovered was that the dogs always seemed to have an agenda and
somewhere to go they always have to walk with a purpose like we saw some dogs
a few times in the same towns and they always seemed to be like very very
distinguished dogs with a thought and a focus of where they wanted to go they
seemed they have no time for trivial things like petting and love and if you
may or may not have food they have a mission and they have to go see their
great and Esmerelda down the road
they mean business
right, maybe it's the great aunt Agata
on our trip throughout Poland I noticed that a lot of the roads are lined with trees that
are specifically planted there they're not just random trees on the highway but
they were trees planted on the local roads on either side so it was like a
natural border for the road and I just thought those were so beautiful we do
have a few of roads here in the US like that but in Poland they were
overwhelming everywhere that we went every single Drive that we went from one
city to then to another had these trees lining the roads and I thought that they
were just really really beautiful and obviously they'd been here long a while
because the trees are very tall by now and I wish we had more stuff like that
here in the US another incredible thing about Poland is there are so many
amazing castles all throughout the country and we kind of learned about
these castles or at least I kind of learned about these castles somewhat
towards the end of our trip but I find them to be amazingly beautiful and I
hope that we get to see more I've always been infatuated with that
type of part of the European culture because here we have these silly things
called renaissance festivals where they're kind of like small amusement
park things that last for a period in the fall you go ahead in Poland people
use these castles for real live medieval war reenactments
so basically what I'm saying is I personally have an infatuation with this
Renaissance time period and we cannot see anything like that here in the US
of course because there were no medieval structures built here in the US
we're visiting a castle of the Teutonic order here in Ostróda you could have a
Renaissance Fair around a real castle here why don't they do that
I loved how so many of the buildings and structures in Poland are made with
longetivity in mind they're not disposable houses or stick built homes all of the
buildings are built with the idea that they're going to be there for hundreds
of years and with that in mind I noticed that even the fences were built to be
there for many many many years this is just one design but they have so many
different pretty patterns and I like it because they're made out of concrete
which is basically just rock so when that person is done with the fence what happens?
it just gets crumbled-up and it can be put back into the earth or used for something else
whereas in the United States we have all these vinyl plastic fences they don't
decompose and naturally go into the ground like something like a rock would
and I also like how the color of these is something that fits into the
environment it doesn't stand out and it's not tied to the petroleum industry
which is how the vinyl fences are made and their prices fluctuate based on the
price of oil which i think is just ridiculous I'm so glad we were able to
talk about this while we're still in Poland
one thing that we miss here in
the US because we are such a melting pot of so many different cultures and
countries and so many different people is this very defined sense of culture we
don't have our we have certain customs but everybody kind of has their own
customs that they intermingle and I find that in Poland there's a very
well-defined sense of culture and history and this is how things are and
this is how we are and these are our traditions for many many years past that
we still hold on to and I feel that we don't really have that well-defined
sense of culture here in the US because we have so many different
countries that have come together we kind of diluted our own sense of culture
so I really loved how in Poland you have these are the things that we love and
this is what we know about our country and these are the defined things that we
know are totally polish because I feel that we don't really have that in the US
and I loved how you have that in Poland I envy that
now on to desserts I know
I talked about food and the meals and the restaurants earlier but another thing
that's amazing about Poland are the desserts
every time that we went into a restaurant or a cafe that had desserts
it was amazing to just look at all of the different desserts lined up and how
beautiful they are first that's number one first and
foremost they're very very beautiful they take a lot of skill to make and
number two as beautiful as sweet as they look none of them were overwhelmingly
sweet and you could eat a whole piece of cake and not feel that you just had
three spoonfuls of sugar shoved into your mouth they're very well balanced
and I love the light deliciousness of the desserts in Poland
didn't make me feel like I was breaking some rule to eat a dessert before dinner
I noticed that in Poland there a lot most people in Poland are normal average
weight they're not chunky or thick in any way and I feel like that's because
you're walking all of the time
this is closed to vehicle traffic here
in Poland all of the cities are very walkable from
what I experienced and you eat all the time
I could not keep up with the amount of food you ate and yet you're very thin
country you aren't overweight in any way I think that it's because you're eating
very wholesome solid ingredients without a lot of preservatives and you're
walking all at the time and I really liked all of the food I had but it was a
little but too much for me
and now that we are in Poland it's only 10:00 p.m. and it's a party not directly
look at this home made food
not directly related to Poland as a country itself but we seem to notice that Polish people
are hungry for YouTube which we love which means you can expect to see us
again there soon because obviously David loves Poland I love Poland and you seem
to like seeing as in Poland so we want to go back again very soon
I feel like Polish people don't really have a big sense of self-awareness and
pride in their country I mean I just feel like they kind of don't care about
their country there's not a sense of nationalism and loyalty
I would never dress in any national colors or any promotion for Poland
because I feel like I would look as we looked at kind of strange by even Polish people
this is like torture to me because I don't like doing this
beause we're also hungry to give people videos on YouTube
and then where am I going with that?
and here comes its snuffleupagus
snuffleupagus is gonna suck your camera up
David made me make this video
because...
is that what you want me to say?