Today we did something different than we have ever done on one of our previous motorcycle trips. We hailed an Uber ride from the hotel to the Central Railway Station so that we wouldn't have to hassle with parking (it's a real issue in Warsaw). while waiting for our UBER ride, we noted 2 Gold Wing motorcycles in our hotel's parking lot with Russian plates. And one of them was a 2018 model. The UBER worked really slick and only cost about $8US. At the Railway station we looked for the Hop On Hop Off (HOHO) bus location and a tourist information lady assisted us and pointed out where it was located. With that settled, we enjoyed a quick and inexpensive breakfast at McDonald's in the train station. We caught the 10:30am RED line bus and enjoyed a brief chat with a Colombian couple who had just returned from Russia after watching two Colombian World Cup Soccer games. They were on an extended layover before continuing on their journey back to the US where they live.
Riding the Red Line HOHO gave us a good initial understanding of the city layout. We hoped to ride the blue line, but in the end that didn't work out because of what we chose to do after riding the Red Line bus. BTW, this HOHO bus was the cheapest of any we've taken in the world. After doing the loop, we got off in the Old Town and hopped on a little train for a more intimate ride. Then we walked the OLD City and enjoyed a Polish lunch before deciding to walk over to the Jewish Museum to take a 2 hour guided tour of the history of the Polish Jews. It was about a mile walk there but the tour was so worth it. After the tour we walked another mile and a half to the Chopin Museum and it was free because it was Sunday. The Chopin music playing in the various exhibits was wonderful. We then hailed another Uber for a ride back to our hotel. There we ate a nice Polish meal for dinner and watched the Croatia-Denmark World Cup soccer game.
Tomorrow we head for Vilnius, Lithuania and it's expected to be at least a 6 hour ride to cover 440 kilometers or some 270 miles. Some of Angela's choir members have already arrived there, but we don't need to be there until 8pm for a group dinner.
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