Poland between the Virus and choice: To love everyone whom he wills

Who now travels with the car through Poland, and the poor condition of the roads and the level of the Hotels twenty years ago, in memory, will be surprised: Today you have cars on the country's new motorways and expressways already a thousand miles to go, before we discovered the first small pothole.

Gerhard Gnauck

Political correspondent for Poland, the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, based in Warsaw.

the hotel industry has changed. Even in an Eastern Polish city of Lublin have opened in the last year, several Hotels in new. The Corona-crisis is hitting the industry painful. In the past few days, many of the properties were utilized only slightly, and good with disinfectants equipped. In most of the Hotels mask are compulsory and is often dispensed on the cleaning of the rooms, in order to reduce the risk of infection.

In the small town of żory (Zory) in upper Silesia, we met at the new, glass-and-light-wood-built bus station, a small architectural gem, on the tiny Hotel "Stary Młyn" (the Old mill). German guests are likely to be familiar to the gentlemen in the portraits above the piano in the Breakfast room: In black picture frames, Goethe and Schiller can be seen.

The Breakfast served to Nadia. "I'm here to Intern and must complete 160 hours of work," she says. Just recently she turned 18. With the hotel management degree, you will learn not to stop. "I want to study English. I'm not a Fan of the American culture, even if I know there is still good.“ She likes Rap and pop music.

upper Silesia is Poland's largest Corona-Hotspot; also, Nadia's father, a miner, had already been in quarantine. Appropriate care of Nadia in to your social contacts. But to the polling place you want to go on a Sunday, and for the first time of their right to make use of.

the criteria by which you decide who should be the President of Poland? What keeps you by the liberal candidates, Rafał Trzaskowski, the current Warsaw mayor? "The looks after all, well," she says and giggles. In the social media are most likely the non-party candidate Szymon Hołownia is met. He had spoken in his Videos, clever and compelling; what, exactly, you can no longer remember.