Yesterday I watched Rick Steves’ PBS special about Poland. He starts in Krakow and follows the Vistula to Warsaw, Torun, and Gdansk. (A wonderful Rabanesque travel book could be written by someone sailing the length of the Vistula.) Steves covers the basics, most of which were familiar to me, and leaves out two of the things that appeal to me most about Poland: the humor and the folk art, much of which is touched by the humor. But I’m happy that he’s shed some light on what he justifiably calls “perhaps Europe’s most underrated and surprising country.”
