Christmas Market In Wroclaw

 So, I finished the blog yesterday with our arrival to Wroclaw. When we arrived to the city we saw a sign we haven’t seen before. I suspect it meant from that point in the city all parking spots are not going to be free. And they weren’t! Kinda. We drove into a small street near the building we booked a room in, while I was waiting in the car — so we didn’t have to pay for a started parking hour — Sari went exploring. She found a parking lot with ‘Personal cars only’ sign. We had no idea what that meant, but there were a few spots left so I parked there and tried to ask locals if the place was free or not. Unfortunately I didn’t find anyone who spoke any English, but with the help of all my Polish knowledge and a patient local lady we’ve worked out the place was free and we were allowed to park there.

After saying good night to the car we went on an accommodation-hunt or maybe that’s not the correct expression because we already had an accommodation, we just didn’t know where it was. We ended up in a nice front door, the usual code-y thing to get in the stairs — the stairs were beautiful wooden stairs, it was staggering. Up the stairs was an apartment with maybe 5 rooms, and a kitchen in the middle of it. All the rooms had their on bathrooms, only the kitchen was shared. All the rooms looked pretty good and well designed, they’ve even put on signs asking us not to destroy the whole place. The only weak point in this equation was our roommates… They left all their dirty dishes in the sink… Wtf…

When we’ve finally gathered all of our energy and went out to explore the city or at least the Christmas Market. We started walking towards the old town we came across the University of Wroclaw, a huge university with shameless amount of beautiful buildings, buildings with amazing details it really felt like a fairy tale.

We contacted our walk to the old town and soon got to the Christmas Market. A rather big market, with many-many stands, roller coaster and what-have-yous. They even had some food-stands. Oh, yes. When we visited Poznan I found a dish I was dying to try, but we didn’t know its name, we didn’t know its price, and we didn’t know what was in it, and too much uncertainties talked me out of trying it. However here we found signs with dish names. And frankly that was enough. Haha. The miracle we are talking about here is called Bigos which is a Polish dish usually translated to English as Hunter’s Stew. *Yes, as it turns out I have already eaten this dish before in our favorite Polish food chain* Its cabbage with meat and bread as far as I can tell. And it’s absolutely mind-blowing! While I was demolishing my taste buds Sari was having a sandwich. 

Sari’s sandwich and my bigos with some tree in the background.


We enjoyed the food and the scenery, however it felt really cold — although it was 7°C it felt like -1°C! — so, after a few short walks around the market we were headed back to our nice warm bed.

So, I’ll end here our first day in Wroclaw, simply because it was the end of the day, and I’ll continue soon with the second day!

Till then take care and be safe!

Almos


Location: Wrocław, Poland

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