Tip №1 When you are in Poland NEVER confuse Dworzec Glowny PKS and Dworzec Glowny PKP. We did. And as result instead of going to the bus station (PKS) we went to the railway station (PKP) when we took the public transport.
Anyway, wasting 1,5 hour to get to the right station didn't appear to be a problem for us, because there were plenty of buses going to the capital and just in some 2 and a half hours from Lublin and we were already in Warsaw.
The big capital didn't welcome us very well. A pouring rain with a thunder was the way we were greeted. But before that we had a whole adventure getting on the tram. The main station was huge and surrounded by so many different bus stops, that we had to spend 40 minutes there in order to find the stop with the tram we needed. In the tram itself we payed to the driver, but in some 30 seconds the tram stopped and that very driver approached us and told us to pay more. After we rejected, telling that we payed everything, she just turned back to her cabin. I din't quite understand what that scene supposed to mean.
The first thing I saw there was an unusual tall building , which, as I further found out, the Polish called "the most hated", "the tallest" and even "Stalin's Building" & "the Communist". In fact it turned out to be a Palace of Culture and Science.
The next day the weather was a bit better. We went to the city centre. After Gdansk and Krakow it didn't impress me. But that was only at the first sight.
After having walked the main streets for dozens of times I understood why its city centre belongs to the UNESCO heritage. The weather, indeed, played a great role in the perception of the city. In the late evening we went to the amazing multimedia fountain park that presented a whole colourful show for the visitors.
The next day started with going to the Wilanow Castle and feeding squirrels at the "Krulewky Lasenky" royal palace. Wilanow castle was one of the most amazing things to see in Warsaw. It is a big palace with vast territory around it, where a beautiful garden and a lake create an atmosphere of calmness and joy. Walking through the garden I could possibly imagine people having fun without TV and internet. The heavenly place, only for a royal family, however.  |
| A symbol of the modern world: the male peacock is hiding from the female one :D |
We found a lot of interesting details at each building in the city centre. The more I walked there the more I was falling in love with Warsaw. I liked its historical "stare miasto" and new business districts with scyscrapers, that were glittering at night and seemed as ones in New York rather than in some European capital.
It perfectly combined conventionality and modernism, its pace was lively, calm and quick at the same time
One of the places that are a must-sees in Warsaw is for sure Copernicus Science Centre. I've never liked ordinary museums , they were complete boredom for me until the Schindler's Factory. But I heard about it so much that it went without a doubt that I 
After queueing for 45 minutes and my strong intention to stay till the very end, we came inside. It was...fun. We composed our melody together with Mozart, met a supercute master of poems, built a bridge, checked the speed, heat of the bodies, looked at different experiments with radio waves, electronics and other funny scientific stuff. All in all we spent some 2 hours and that's considering that we didn't stop at each of the interesting invention that were there.
The rest of the day was as pleasant as it started. We had opportunity to climb the tower in the city centre, where we observed a stunning panorama of the city and I tried a strange but tasty Bubble Tea for the first time.
The song of the day:
