Poland, Belgium & UK Dec 2013

In December of 2013, Larry Rexford, Ron Sizemore and I flew from DFW to the UK and then to on Warsaw Poland.  We spent 4 days in Poland, then met up in Brussels, Belgium for 2 days and then back to the UK for 2 more days before returning to Dallas.  

I have been to Belgium before and the UK many times, but Warsaw was new territory for me.  While we were there in Warsaw, the people of Kiev began their protests which eventually led to the Ukrainian President running away to Russia and to then Russia moving into the Crimean Peninsula.  I watched this on CNN, not knowing that this would change European history for many years and lead to Russia invading Ukraine again in 2022.