Poznan

Poznan, a city in western Poland is the place where I heard first about Osama bin Ladens death, while eating cornflakes. The main square was to big for the developers of the past, so they built the Town Hall (Renaissance style with baroque tower) and several other buildings into the middle of the square. Not very odd for Poland, but it seems wrong. While I was there the Polish People celebrated there Independence day. There was a small fair on the main square and a military parade with old uniforms. All the schoolchildren were forced to take part and were visibly bored.

I walked around till exhaustion. I visited an old wooden church, the cemetery, monuments about past wars, Lake Malta and Ostrow Tumski. A small island considered the birth place of the Polish culture. The cathedral dates back to the 10th century. Pope John Paul is celebrated everywhere and by anyone. The Polish people think of him as the new face of Poland after the dark years of Communism.

Further more also the Champions League final and the Polish cup final took place during my time there. I missed the first half of Barcelona against Manchester because Warsaw and Poznan went into overtime.