Slubice, Poland

On Saturday, when we heard that Poland was only 40 miles away we decided it would be a good use of our time to visit a border town and plant our feet on Polish soil. Mostly to say we have been there if we get sent back before we can visit Warsaw (which is a little far down the list). So in TJ fashion he google mapped a good place for us to go and it happened to be Slubice, across the Oder River from Frankfurt Oder. FYI, there are a couple of Frankfurts...the huge one near us, Frankfurt am Main, and then this one, Frankfurt (oder). Both are small border towns so there wasn't much to see, but we did take a couple of snaps.

We parked in Frankfurt and decided to walk through the old checkpoint and over the Oder to get to Poland. The checkpoint is certainly eastern looking and very big, but of course closed down when Poland joined the EU. Here is a look...

The Oder River kind of reminds me of the Savannah River near Augusta. It is quiet and not very wide.

A few short minutes and we reached Poland...or Polska if you are Polish.

The town is small and has a German looking altstadt. But you can see the Eastern European influence in some of the surrounding architecture as well. Here is a downtown street of Slubice..

Frankfurt Oder is much larger, so we got a better photo of he eastern blocked apartments. TJ said they reminded him of Moscow except these looked much nicer.

It was a quick trip there that turned into a nine hour car ride back home due to horrid traffic conditions. I would like to visit Warsaw sometime, but clearly not until we can visit some other places we desire to see more. Warsaw will have to come after Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Paris, England, Portugal, Scotland, Denmark, and of course our already booked trips to Sweden next month and Belgium in August.

I hope you enjoy hearing of our adventures as I hope there are many more to come!

Auf Wiedersehen!