Travels With Lonely Planet: Exploring the riches of Wroclaw Poland's Silesian state capital straddles 12 distinct islands and retains a medieval charm By Tom Parkinson Eastern Europe is opening up at a dizzying pace, and nowhere more so than Poland. Ever since the fall of communism in 1989, the country has been modernizing rapidly, and in 2004 it finally joined the European Union, cementing its crucial position at the corner of the continent. Around the same time, the budget-airline boom reached the major Polish cities, connecting them to London and a host of other European airports at laughably low prices....