Poland vol 1

Lomza – Warsaw – Poznan – Rzepin

What I especially love about traveling, are the stories. Some of them so crazy you only tell to your bestest of friends, if even them, but you'll be forever laughing about with the other parties involved. Some you'll always remember fondly, some you'll learn from, some make you wanna go to so many more faraway places, some inspire, motivate, grow you. Why traveling is the best way to collect stories, is that you'll go out of your comfort zone, you put yourself into situations you wouldn't in regular everyday life, you let go. That's why I will never stop going to places and getting more stories on the way.

Lomza. A motel on the road with a beautiful restaurant and free breakfast. The dinner the night before and also that breakfast how cheap the food in Poland is and how damn delicious.

Next up: Warsaw.

We rented an apartment in Warsaw. Warsaw is on of the cheapest cities for accommodation. The apartment was a minute away from Nowy Świat – one of the main streets, and walking distance to old town. If not mind walking, everything else was walking distance too - central, Soho, dodgy districts across the river.

On the first day we managed to get locked inside our apartment, the key didn't turn the locks didn't move, the iron door was shut. We were close to calling for help when raw force of human nature helped us out.

Altho Polish food is exquisite, Mexican is also, and always so much fun!

Warsaw University Library and the park on top of it. First evening, we walked right in there, not knowing if we are in the right place. Knowing there has to be a rooftop garden, took the first elevator to the top floor. Found closed offices and a toilet. When back at home, double checked, went back the next day, swallowed our pride and asked a security garden. Where would you enter a rooftop garden.. take the stairs from an actual garden of course.

It's a beautiful spot. One of the greenest areas of Warsaw and on of the largest rooftop gardens in Europe. The library itself looks ultra-modern but the garden is cosy, which makes it all very harmonic.

Brzeska street and the neighbouring areas. Considered the most scary and dangerous one in the whole city, but also most authentic. The life is slow, locals catching up in front of the shops. Worth a walk!

The castle on Mińska street, created by the British artist Phlegm. Paintings on the streets don't need to be considered as vandalism, but art!

The keeper of the castle.

Next to it there's the Soho Factory. Fairly new area but up and growing.

with outdoors lounges like that..

and food like that.. oh pierogi. I still haven't dared to step on a scale, as we could not stop eating pierogi.

Hard Rock Cafe, expensive as everywhere, but the music and those cocktails!!! dragged us in.

Poznan

A city midways from Warsaw to Berlin. A lovely town with a lot of construction going on. We managed to get hopelessly lost searching for the Jeźyce neighbourhood and walked a few extra kilometres. Jeźyce itself is supposed to be a very Berlin-like are, we don't know we didn't make it there, but it wasn't really a problem as we were headed towards the real deal.