06 Aug 2025
We had a very good guide/driver. We were pleasantly surprised when he picked us up at our hotel in a very nice Mercedes sedan. We assumed he was taking us to join a small group tour, only to find out that we were a tour group of 2, chauffeured about in the Mercedes. He spoke English well, but was understandably more comfortable in Polish, which wasn't an issue, as my wife was born in Poland and is conversationally fluent. The Riese tour was a bit disappointing as the tour guide on site spoke only Polish. We had headsets in English, but they were inadequate and gave only the briefest of information about what we were seeing. The church, however, was stunning.