Magdeburg Germany to Lodz Poland

A long hard day of riding. Torrential rain, 100kph winds and ambient temperatures below 10 degrees C all day. Any sunny breaks we experienced were very welcome. Unfortunately they were quite few in number.
The Polish highways were mostly very good quality. Petrol stops were not plentiful but at least they were available right off the highway as we commonly see in Australia or the U.S
On one of our food stops as shown in the photo where Sol is eating some hot soup, we had an interesting welcoming committee on the short road leading to the restaurant. A young lady was sitting on the edge of a brick wall, rather scantily clad and openly displaying her genitals to all and any passers by.
This young lady was a working girl waiting for clients and openly used her bodily features to promote her services.
Sol had asked me as we parked at the restaurant..."did you see the girl displaying her wares?" I told him I did notice the girl but actually missed her promotional display.
We were on the road again soon enough. On the final late afternoon food stop we were watching a middle aged man selling all sorts of "tax free" products mainly to passing truck drivers. He had alcohol, cigarettes, perfumes and more.
After arriving in the center of Lodz in the early evening our physical condition added to the emotional realisation that Sol's father's original home and that of hundreds if not thousands of their Jewish neigbours were now only a memory.
The sight of their original homes were now the Lodz Zoo. A convenient way to reduce the memory of a whole Jewish Stelt (town) that stood there for probably several hundred years, to zero.