Even with the potential lure of breakfast out, I couldn’t get out of bed early enough. I’d found a lovely cafe called ZacZayn which does fresh sourdough with spreads, but by the time we got there the tiny place was full and all the pastries munched!
This proved to be fortunate as we went instead to Massolit Books and Cafe which was recommended by a friend. It’s my ideal place…like stepping back in time, with floor to ceiling bookshelves filled with English books – a little taste of home ❤️ The pups were welcomed in, and took up lots of space. We had a lovely coffee and they had a vegan sweet potato bread cake for me, and delicious quiche for Mark. All was going well until 2 other dogs came in and Ernest in his screaming desperation to play, knocked the table and sent a vase of flowers flying to the floor. Which set Mabel off grumbling. While Mark struggled to get them out of the cafe, Jasper calmly wagged his tail and waited for me to clean up, then met the dogs. One out of three ain’t bad 😂🙈
With the pups resting back at the van, Mark and I went to explore the hip jewish Kazimierz area. It definitely has a different vibe with lots of cafés, craft, vintage, a bit more graffiti and noticably younger people walking around. This is typically recommended as the place to stay and I can see why. I dropped Mark off at the Irish pub so he could watch the footy and sample the polish beer while I pottered about. To be fair if I lived here, I’d be dipping in and around the lanes all day long, its so nice to explore.
There are masses of great vegan food options and it’s so cheap that it’s tempting to eat out for every meal…but we practiced a little restraint (we are eating a lot in Poland…with amazing ice cream for 80p it would be rude not to!). Sunday evenings call for a more relaxed atmosphere, so we headed to Cybermachina Game Pub. If you love guitar hero, playstation or traditional board/card games it’s a great basement hub to hang out in, with peels of laughter crossing the room. Our only problem was that the games were all in polish. However we had come prepared with a German copy of Hanabi (a collective firework building game) 🙈 Mark quickly googled the English rules and we had a fun evening bending the rules to hide how useless we were at the game.
As an important side note, there is an amazing food market near to the pub with too many delicious options (the bread!!!). We bought some Turkish Helva – after hearing someone saying it was the best they’d had. As usual we had no idea what it was but it’s like a coffee flavoured sugary chalk. Can you tell I’m still trying to fatten Mark up? 😂
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