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Day 5 (June 20, 2018)   Warsaw

Before       This day will be spent entirely on exploring Warsaw and, specially, the Old Town, where we're allocated.    The spots marked at map are:  0- Apartments Spichlerz  1- Old Town  2- Krakowskie Przedmiescie  3- National Museum  4- Ulica Miodowa  5- Palace of Culture and Science

After    As we are in an apartment, we take our breakfast from the food we brought from a supermarket last night. With this, we leave the place some minutes after 10AM. Our plan is starting with the further visits.    We start by taking avenue Krakowskie Przedmiescie, which may be the most popular street in Warsaw, by observing the monuments along the way. Holy Cross Church stands out here, which has an urn with the heart of Chopin inside.    Once the end of the street is reached, with the Staszic Palace and Copernicus monument we walk forward beyond until reaching the beautiful building of the Palace of Culture and Science.    We turn around here and come back to the Old Town, where we plan to have our lunch.   We explore Old Town Market Place, which is always full of live, and then take St. John’s Street to visit St. John’s Cathedral. The street is too narrow as per being able of getting distance for a good picture of the front of cathedral’s front.    We end in the Royal Palace and choose one of the restaurants with terrace in the Palace Square for our lunch. It’s an Italian named “Dolce Vita” and we pay 100 zlotys for two pizzas: my four seasons and Eva’s asparagus one. They’re very big and thin.    We come back to the apartment for a rest and wake up at 5:30 PM from an involuntary nap. Then leave to see the Barbican and the Old Town’s walls.    From there, we walk to Ulica Miodowa, which is completely in improvement works. It looks like it will be a nice street in the future, but now it’s just a mess. Besides, Cathedral of the Polish Army is completely covered by scaffolding. In front of it we can see the Uprising Monument, though.    We’re done with our visits, so we walk by the Old Town, enjoying its atmosphere in these streets, and making time for the Spain match in World Cup at 8 PM.    After that, we go back to the apartment for our well-deserved rest. We’ve leave it one more time, though, to enjoy this Old Town in lights by night.