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Article: Poles apart; traveleurope Forget Prague and its stag parties - Warsaw remains Eastern Europe's undiscovered gem. MARKPORTER takes a drink on the quiet side.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2005
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Byline: MARK PORTER
EARLY evening in Warsaw's Old Town, and I am sitting in a bar, sipping a beer and thinking about British drunks. Call me a hypocrite, but I can't help reflecting on how hard it now is to enjoy a tipple in the grand old cities of Eastern Europe without being jostled by a reeling British stagnighter.
But Warsaw is different. Enjoying the perfect medieval setting, I breathe a sigh of relief: not a stag-nighter to be seen, and I've already been in Poland for ten days.
Warsaw is still like Prague of a decade or so ago when it had recently emerged from the stodgy days of communism. The city is chocolate-box charming, inexpensive and ever-so-slightly ...