<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Poland</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</link><description>Poland</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Poland's Sweet Comeback]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25101-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25101-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:11:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   On a recent trip to the Wedel chocolate shop in Warsaw, I stood before a counter covered in crystal jars filled with foil-wrapped chocolates. Chocolate boxes decorated with roses lined the back wall, and Wedel's signature candies were modeled in a glass display case finer than those found at many diamond merchants. Hot chocolate came crowned with a scoop of fresh whipped cream, and the five-layer chocolate torte was topped with the most natural accessory: caramel and raspberry sauce.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA['This Silent Place']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29445-2004Sep17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29445-2004Sep17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:11:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On a visit to Holocaust sites in Eastern Europe, a  Washington tour group celebrates Jewish life -- and witnesses the attempt to destroy it.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Krakow's Religious Dining Experience]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55529-2003Jun13.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55529-2003Jun13.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:11:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Soon after Alef Jewish Restaurant opened for business in Krakow's Jewish quarter 10 years ago, a gaggle of Polish schoolgirls wandered in during their lunch break. The anxious students asked the restaurant's co-owner, Janusz Benigier, whether they served non-Jews.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[KRAKOW]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12074-2000Mar5.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12074-2000Mar5.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:11:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you do only one thing when you come to Krakow, go to Wawel Hill.<P>Stand in the open courtyard atop the hill, and through the surrounding architectural clutter--for the hill is like an eccentric collector's living room, crowded with all manner of exotica--millenniums of Polish history and legend press in on you.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Krakow, Salt of the Earth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60504-2000Jan2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60504-2000Jan2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/poland</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:11:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The crystal chandelier is elegant--and made of salt. The bas relief of "The Last Supper" is delicately carved--and made of salt. And the statue of Pope John Paul II? His Holiness is made of salt, too.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>