Not your chips!

Question: what's more difficult? Finding a decent nachos in Poland or drawing a plate of nachos?

Turns out "nachos" in Warsaw simply means "bowl of corn chips".

Literal yes, satisfying, hell no.

Study of a sugarpot

Sometimes it's hard to do something you've never done before. Like drawing a sugarpot. Sometimes you get worse before you get better, like when you attempt your second drawing of a sugarpot. By the fourth time it somewhat resembles what you're trying to do and on the fifth time you're pretty happy. But do it a hundred, or a thousand times and that difficult thing you've never done before, is as easy as pie...or sugarpots.

Piano

This is a piano.

Hey piano! One day I'm gonna know how to play you properly #chopsticks #rugratstheme #athousandmiles #shhhh! 

...and the music's not too loud #coffee

Traveling is great. But when you're used to a culture of good service traveling can be difficult. When you're used to great coffee from pretty much any cafe traveling can be difficult. You're told that people in Eastern Europe grew up without the smile and not to mistake directness and a frown for impoliteness. But when you've worked for years in customer service and believe that a smile makes all the difference it's hard not to feel defeated when you're constantly being served by grumpy faces. Just smile!  You wanna say. But maybe they don't have anything to smile about. It's a miserable day after all and if my cup of hot brown liquid (if it had any resemblance to coffee it would be acknowledged here) only cost me 30cK ($1.50), I doubt wages are high. You're not used to negotiating a replacement if your espresso tastes like they've used the same coffee grinds all day. Actually, looks like they have. Luckily you find this cafe in the courtyard of an old church.  It lacks the novelty of being allowed to smoke inside, but that's far from a criticism. Their espresso machine isn't branded Nespresso, they have a selection of coffee beans and you choose your favourite and their menu includes V 60 drip coffee and aeropress. Coffee wanker? No, you just want a coffee that isn't burnt, or watery, or both.

Thanks for the nice coffee and the smile.

You welcomed it warmly after seeking in vain a laundromat that seems to have turned into a Swedish health spa and consequently giving into to the hostels ridiculous demand of 280cK ($14) for access to the washer/dryer combo in a tiny, stuffy room in the basement that only had one temperature setting only to discover that not all clothes fit in the machine so you cross the street to the previously hidden-in-plain-sight dry cleaners, more affordable, but you're greeted, greeted is the wrong word, presented with a lady whose courtesy extands to slapping a basket down on the counter and taking your 200cK ($10).

Am I a spolit traveler?