Wroclaw, Poland

Yesterday me, John and Becky (my new best friends in Poland) jumped in the car and drove the 270km to Wroclaw, Poland. When we left, it was gray. Then on the way we ran through rain and about the time that we actually passed the exit for the city we were headed to the clouds parted and it was blue skies. We get up the road a bit and in a twist of fate, are about to run out of gas. We pull of at a small town and get gas only to find out that we had actually passed Wroclaw by about 40km!!! (Imagining we had actually started out with a full tank of gas, we would not have run out of gas til AFTER the German border and would have spent a lovely afternoon in Germany, instead of Poland haha) Anyway, we go back and get there, find a parking spot and get out into the sunshine. BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!! The city has a main square like the one here in Krakow, but it's much smaller (still pretty huge) which makes it much more accessible. The buildings are all shades of different colors, absolutely stunning. The town of Wroclaw itself was started as a city on an island in the middle of the Vistula. We walk over the bridge and walk around there a bit. There are like 400 churches in this city. Ok, maybe not 40, but a lot! Did I happen to mention how beautiful it all is? It may be that we hadn't seen warm weather or the sun for that matter, in about a week if not longer here at home.
The city of Wroclaw is a gnome city. They have about 400 (this is a literal count now) little tiny 8 inch statues, strewn about the downtown and main square guarding treasure, drinking beer, wishing people good luck and just being gnomes. You know how those little buggers are!
We left at dark and made it home in 2 hours. For those of you converting the distance 270km in about 2 hours... yes, that means for the majority of the time we were doing between 100-115mph. Not the best part of the trip, but we made it safely. Gracias a Deus!!!