Enjoy Living Abroad. My Picks: Best of SF. The daughter of First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka was a fan, and she pestered and pestered until it was agreed. The concert was only for communist party leaders and their families. After, when the Stones received their payment, they go to the bank, and find out the money cannot be exchanged or transferred. The money must be used in Poland. They go to the store to buy something, but in those days there is nothing to buy.
A few potatoes. Some soap. And vodka. So they bought enough bottles of vodka to fill an entire railroad car. But then they learn the railroad car of vodka also cannot leave Poland. So they donate the vodka to the Polish Artistic Agency.
It took them 30 years to drink it all. Mick Jagger in Warsaw, We drove around town for hours in two noisy, sweltering Soviet-era vans. Shots of cheap, mint-flavored and cherry-flavored vodka went around, and we were supposed to view some s propaganda films and sample the traditional , down-and-dirty snack of bread with pork lard and pickles, but none of that ever materialized.
Two days later, on the gourmet Eat Polska food tour , we found ourselves sitting down to platters of pork lard, brown bread, and gerkins. It actually tasted pretty good, especially when washed down with high-grade, unflavored vodka. Many people here are quite nostalgic for food from the s.
Instead it turned out to be the mind-blowing Dark Side of the Moon. Go around? Hell no. When the crowd chimed in with the chorus, we did too. Hey, when in Warsaw…. Arriving too late for the early show, we wandered about until we heard sixties rock music wafting out from behind the Palace on the Island. We thought we were visiting Warsaw, but it turned out we were re-visiting the sixties and seventies. To follow our adventures as they unfold, subscribe to my blog , like my Facebook page , and keep checking the map of our journey.
