We Built Our Dream House in Communist Poland… Then Crashed Cars & Drove a VW Across Europe
n the mid-1960s we finally moved into our new Scandinavian-style house in Warsaw’s upscale Mokotów district — complete with a basement kitchen, coal storage, garage with repair pit, and custom furniture ordered through the Minister of Forestry.Life was getting better: we bought our first Polish Syrena car (and had two minor accidents), our son got his driving license, finished high school, and went to a French youth camp. Meanwhile I was invited to West Germany for six months at the University of Giessen, where I bought a used Volkswagen with help from my sister-in-law in Canada. My son…
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