Bob comes to visit

Bob, a friend and fellow blogger, visited us from the UK for a few days this week. It was nice to show him the bright lights of Warsaw!

He arrived on Tuesday night via Easyjet. Amusingly one of the passengers on Bob's flight mistook him for English referee Howard Webb (there is an uncanny resemblance). It was the worst possible case of mistaken identity, as after Poland's Euro 2008 debacle Howard Webb is currently No.1 on the country's 'most-wanted' list.

A few days earlier even usually level-headed Polish Premier Donald Tusk, issued a death threat against Mr Webb.

There are currently 588 'Kill Howard Webb' movies on You Tube.

As a result it put a bit of an edge on his visit as we were always watching for knife brandishing football thugs to jump out at every corner and slaughter Bob by mistake. I guess it didn't help that I took to calling him 'Howard' whenever there were groups of likely assassins around. Remarkably he managed to survive the trip without having to buy funny glasses and a fake moustache.

We went to Wilanow Palace on Tuesday and then walked down Nowy Swiat and the Old Town on Wednesday. The weather has been lovely in Warsaw for the past few days, so it made being outside even nicer.

We even took in the Euro 2008 semi-final between Germany and Turkey at the "Belfast", our local pub. Given the Howard Webb confusion, I thought it was brave of Bob to take up a seat at the front of the bar, but fortunately the place was quite dark so I don't think anyone really noticed us. The Poles were enthusiastically supporting Turkey and everyone trudged home sadly when Germany scored a last minute winner to win 3-2.


Bob headed back to the UK on Thursday morning - Audrey was especially sad to see him go as she had taken to giving him big smiles whenever she saw him. We all enjoyed seeing him and we hope he enjoyed his trip (despite the potential death threats hanging over him during his stay!)