Street Art Central
I wouldn’t have guessed it, but Poland turns out to have a lot of complicated, beautiful, and interesting street art. A few examples: Warsaw: Kraków: Sopot: Łódź:
What We Ate in Warsaw
Restaurant Eteria: This was our first meal in Poland, and it was a great start. I ordered zucchini cakes – like my grandma makes, which came with salmon. The quality was quite good, as confirmed by the next time I had zucchini cakes: the latter ones were fairly saturated in oil. B ordered the schnitzel. We sat…
What We Ate in Kraków
Bar Targowy: This was a ‘milk bar.’ We trekked to it, out in a decidedly non-touristy part of town; the moment we walked in, eyes were on us. I imagine they were wondering who in their right mind would make a trip to see something that would be reminiscent of a US high school cafeteria. I ordered surówki (pickled cabbage) and…
What We Saw in Kraków
We spent two days in Kraków. Stained Glass Museum: The name is a bit misleading: this is actually a tour of a workshop where stained glass windows are produced. It’s a great look at the process of making them: from colored glass characteristics and cutting with diamond tools to lead joiners between glass pieces and paint layered atop glass. It…
Uneven
Today, we took a 3-hour walking tour of Kraków, plus a few hours of strolling on either end. The result is this magnificently-uneven souvenir. B has a much more even version that exactly follows his t-shirt line. Thanks Poland!
Adventures in Polski
The good news about the Polish language is that it’s in the same family as a language I speak. The bad news is that it’s not a close-knit family. What that means is that I can understand about 30% of what I hear (up to 40%, if someone magically speaks slowly), but I can say…
What We Saw in Warsaw
We were in Warsaw for nine days. That might seem strange, once you read how little we saw, but we did a lot of sitting in cafes and people-watching: enough so that I feel confident saying one entire day passed that way. No regrets. Multimedialny Park: This was the first thing we really saw in Poland, and…
What We Ate in Sopot
Sopot is a resort town, something I generally dislike for being crowded, overpriced, boring, and loud. But Sopot turns out to be my favorite resort town, at least partially because of its excellent food. U Kucharzy: This was the first place we ventured for dinner, and while it was on the expensive side for Poland, it made me…
What We Saw in Gdansk
We spent one day in Gdansk. Amber Museum: In the words of B, ‘I would have been happy with just that first room, but this thing keeps going!’ In total, it was about 5 floors worth of exhibit, though each was just one room, with a few offshoots. Climbing from floor to floor was also…
What We Saw in Łódź*
We spent two and a half days in Łódź*. *pronounced Wuh-dge Rynek (Market) Górniak: This market is held inside and around a big metallic dome. It’s a bit of a flea market, mixed with a green market, with lots of random shops thrown in (‘Why hello Mr. Butcher, next door to bins of bargain basement…