With Motorcycle to NORDKAP-Norway
Day-4 : 07 July 2016  Thursday
from Lviv (Ukraine)>>>to Warshaw :-Total distance : 392 km

I have got my breakfast at the Hotel around 08:30. The breakfast was poor but acceptable. The young girl was not able to speak english. It is cloudy and windy. The temperature is around 15-16deg C. After leaving the Leotel in L'viv, I followed the route to Northwest. I headed the border town Rova Ruska. It rode through the city into the countryside. I tried to reach to the border town. The roads are good. The weather was cloudy and windy. There are smooth up and downs. There are lots of orchards and agricultural grounds. As I came closer to the border I bought fuel. There was a little change office at the exit of the fuel station.  I bought a few Polnish Zloty against the Ukrainian money left in my pocket. I am watching the sky and trying to guess whether the rain will come. 
After a couple of km 's I came to the border. First there was a soldier and he gave a small piece of paper with my bike 's number. Getting out from Ukrain needs also some procedures. Nobody explains anything. I parked my bike at the end of the queue and 
followed an Ukrainian lady and did what she did at the counters with the documents. In one counter I took the stamped passport and in the next one I took the docs of the bike back.
10 minutes later one guy came and wanted to search the cases on my bike. What is the reason ? No sense ! What can I take away from Ukraine. I am riding out.

After being searched throughly I rode to the Polnish part. Polen is much more developed. The procedures are mostly like in The European Union. Things happen easily and smoothly. I passed through the Polnish border. After 10-15 km s the rain started. I stopped at a bus stop on the side of the road and put on my rain gear. The busstop was full of trash.
I continued to ride. The roads are good and paved well. I stopped for lunch break at a BP station just before the town Piaski (N51^07^53.60^ and E 22^52^26.27^). It is just adjacent to a high antenna pole on the left hand side. The restaurant was clean and good . The ladies were not able to speak English and German. But I managed the communication. Since the weather got clear and sunny I tried to get my rain gear dried. After the lunch, around 14:10 I rode away. And after a few km 's having passed around Piaski I took the high way. It is a new high way. I rode faster in direction to Lublin. After 20 minutes the route took me around Lublin and I headed Warshaw. 
Since I had already booked my Hotel on the internet I asked my garmin to get me to the Hotel Karat. My GPS instructed me to get out from the main road when there was around 16-18 kms left. As per the orders coming from my GPS I was riding in the suburbs of Warshaw. Through the clean and cute street etc. In general, Warshaw is a modern European city. Close to the city centre GPS put me on a wide street where I achieved a faster movement. In the city centre there was a hurry. I felt that there is a political meeting.
Finally, I learnt that during these days there was the meeting of NATO. There are lots of official cars with guards in the city. 
I arrived at Hotel Karat. ıt is located at Ul.Sloneczna 37  00789 Warshaw. The Hotel has got a nice front yard where I parked my bike safely. I have finished check-in and went to my room. Nice, big and comfortable room. Takes daylight from both sides. 
The building is old with modern architecture. Rooms are good but not furnished well. I am going to pay 46.-USD incl. breakfast. More then enough !!
After having a shower I went out and started to walk to the centre. Hotel Karat is only 2 kms away from the city centre. I came to the Pl.Unii Lubelskiej and then took the street Marszakowska. There are old looking buildings at both sides of the street.  

A few minutes later I came to the Pl. Zbawiciela where there are 6 roads which are merging.
The main building, there, is the Saviour 's Church.

Right at the corner where Konstytucji and Kosykowa Street are crossing each other I saw a 

girl and the breeze was blowing nicely her skirt.

I walked a little bit further to the Palace of Culture. It is very big place here. The tall buildings are also well seen within the downtown. There are lots of official cars and guards in dark suits. I am sure that the diplomatics who are in Warshaw for the NATO Convention are now returning to their hotels. I walked through the streets in the downtown.

Just for remembering the WW-2 Warshaw had been attacked by Germans' bombers and the people had lost and sufferde a lot. 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bombing of Warsaw
Part of the Invasion of Poland
An aerial view of Warsaw burning, September 1939
Date 1 September 1939 - 27 September 1939 Location Warsaw, Poland Result Surrender of Warsaw
Belligerents
Poland	Germany
Commanders and leaders
	Wolfram von Richthofen
Units involved
Polish Air Force Polish Army anti-aircraft artillery units	Luftwaffe
Casualties and losses
20,000 - 25,000 [1][2]	2 Ju-52 bombers lost

The Bombing of Warsaw in World War II refers to the bombing campaign of Warsaw by the German Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in the Invasion of Poland in 1939. It also may refer to German bombing raids during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. During the course of the war approximately 84% of the city was destroyed due to German and Soviet mass bombings, heavy artillery fire and a planned demolitioncampaign.^[3]

Most probably all these new buldings are constructed despite of the demolished buildings.

Modern part of the City Warshaw

Transition from Soviet to European Union

Modern part of the city also comprises old Soviet blocks

Shopping Mall in Warshaw

Technical University

For dinner I went to the Polska Rozana on the Chocimska Street 7. The ambiance and the service is phantastic there . It is not cheap but good experience with exclusive meal.