[PRCo] Re: Location?

[Fred Schneider]

Agree.  Warsaw is worth a visit.  Sadly the national hotel system which
was still in place when I went there booked me into a westernized hotel.
Food was purely western and bland.  The best meal I had was a bowl of
onion soup in a kiosk on the main downtown street ... it was cooked for
the natives and damn it was tasty.

Joshua Dunfield wrote:

> Harold Geissenheimer wrote:
> > Do you attend college in Pgh?  Live in Oakland or the East end?
> > I have lived in Shadyside, downtown (The hill), Dormont and
> > Penn Hills (12419 Frankstown Road)
>
> I'm working toward a PhD in computer science at CMU (should be done
> in about two years).  I live in Squirrel Hill, just a couple
> minutes' walk from Forbes & Murray.
>
> > By the way, graffiti and fare evasion heavy in Europe.
> > Holland has returned conductors
>
> I visited Warsaw last year.  It's a proof-of-payment system, but I
> never saw an inspector...  Warsaw's definitely worth a visit, there's
> quite a variety of stock -- everything from ultramodern trams to
> rattling artic buses that looked like they hadn't been painted in
> decades.  Both the buses and trams stop infrequently and have more
> sets of doors than is customary in the US, and it seems much more
> efficient.
>
> -j.