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132 – Salt Mines and bonus time

Sometimes plans go out the window. I had got up at 6:30 to get my morning run done and force me out of bed. I should have done this on the first day, it really is the best way of finding quirky shops/cafes and places to visit. I stopped in my tracks when I spotted a little dog sculpture…it has Ernest’s expression down to a T 😂

While I was out Mark nipped to Start Kerplaze food market for my daily ration of blueberries…the more he buys the more I eat/inhale. I forgot to mention yesterday but the food market is opposite the Obwarzanek Museum. I had been booked in to attend their workshop where you learn about polish history while making the iconic bread ring. However when I went in I was told it was only in polish and not worth me doing, which is a real shame as 4sz for fun and learning sounded perfect. I thus consoled myself by buying one for 1sz (20p) – there are mini kiosks everywhere!

Today was a driving day visiting the salt mines and auswitz. However Ernest had an upset tummy, so we booked him in to see the vet and he had to have blood tests and go back tomorrow morning so we didn’t have time to go to Auswitz – hopefully we will tomorrow. You would never he is poorly…he is still mad as a hatter, bouncing off the walls. And boy is he loving the posh wet food and bull stomach treats he has to have 😂

Wieliczka Salt Mine is phenomenal. You go down 135 metres and some of the chambers are collosal, which stunning sculptures made by the miners. It’s definitely a must see. Also don’t panic though you have to walk down steps all the way down…there is at least a tiny cramped lift shaft back up! With this experience the photos speak so much better than words.

With a bonus evening in Krakow we had to try out some more food. We took the pups for a lovely walk in a new area. Found a tiny dog friendly cafe with only two tables called A Hat full of Coffee which served a tasty lavender lemonade and pastry for Mark. No vegan options for me but I lucked out when I spotted a Good Lood ice cream truck. It has amazing vegan ice cream in really quirky flavours. I plumped for avocado, melon and spinach flavour and it was delicious…and possibly healthy? It was certainly very green 😂

While I was trying to catch up on blogs, our Pierogi dumpling dinner restaurant closed so we decided to visit Farma instead. This vegan restaurant regularly pops up in the top 5 and our burgers were both huge and divine. I’d personally not bother with the potato wedges though.

As it was still early I took us to a travel bookshop vegan cafe called Bonobo for a hot chocolate in my case and a beer in Marks. It just happened to be where the scrumptious food market was…which I knew served Pierogi. Talking with the servers, sadly they had run out of sweet ones but had two savory vegan options. However Mark wouldn’t share any with me, you couldn’t order just one to try and I was too full to eat a full portion so I had to accept this was a polish dish I’d have to miss. I must have looked so sad, as the lady handed me a fork with a free dumpling – honestly it made my night! What a lovely end to a scrumptious few days. Krakow, you have been brilliant and I will surely return to retest your foodie delights and pinball heaven.

Day 131 – Cafes and mooching

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? 😂

130 – From majestic cliffs to basement pinball

Poland is great, I really had no expectations but it is such a wonderful country and I’d highly recommend people visit. Krakow has now jumped in front to being my favourite of it’s cities as it’s a lovely size and filled with history, architecture, great food and fun.

But I’m jumping ahead. On our drive down from Warsaw we first stopped at Ojcowski National Park. It’s hugely popular and very busy, with lots of trek routes and eateries. There are striking cliffs a little church and various caves. For a less busy trail we walked uphill on the black trail to see a cave, but it was still busy when we got there lol.

On the way down, I fancied a snack from a cute little stall that I thought sold pasty type things. Seeing a few had names that looked like bacon, I tried in Polish, German and English to explain I was vegan or vegetarian but she looked so puzzled and just kept pointing saying cheese. We even spoke to her friend on the phone with no luck. In the end, I said no meat…she said cheese and pointed to some…so we bought it thinking if it’s got bits of meat the dogs can have it. Turns out the pasty was a roll of solid cheese known as Golka…it was a cheese stall 😂🙈 Mark is happy though as it’s delicious smoked cheese. She must have thought we were right Muppets, but it is odd looking cheese lol

Arriving in Krakow we were rediculously lucky with parking find a spot near the old square and with a free concert being set up for the evening. We had a lovely mooch around. Most places are max 30min walk away so you can see lots of sights in a short time. The Castle and fire breathing dragon sculpture were nice as set by the river. The main square is buzzing with atmosphere, people, bars, cafes, horse carriages and great architecture.

One of the daftest things we did was visit Klockoland – a Lego robot wonderland filled with 5/6 years having great fun playing with various creations. We could have done with borrowing some children so we didn’t look so put of place 😂 Still we had fun solving puzzles, competing against each other and driving Lego crabs. If you like Lego or robots it’s a fun half hour or so.

We had dinner back at the van but then I had a couple of surprises for Mark. Our evening entertainment was a Pinball Machine Museum. This blew my mind, it was awesome! For the entry price of 40sz (less than £10) you can stay and play on all the machines for as long as you like. There are some really old ones, lots of American imports, kooky funny ones…we had been playing for around 90mins when Mark suggested we leave…but then found another two rooms so stayed longer 😂 Basically either your legs or finger tips will give out in the end.

Flying high from pinball fun, we tried to find a Speak Easy bar called Z Ust du Ust. Having never heard of this concept before leaving Norwich we now hunt them out in cities as it’s part of the fun and the cocktail are generally great. For this one you have to answer riddles on their website to get clues to their address. I had also read reviews and other blogs looking for tips as it’s really hard to find. If you go hunting for it and get really stuck, I can help but best not to give the game away.

Your cocktail menu is a series of paintings made by local artists that depict the emotions they felt when drinking that cocktail. So you pick the painting that resonates with you and a few minutes later a delicious cocktail appears (you can check ingredients in the back if you prefer to). My head was swimming after just one, but Mark braved a second 😂 Another fun thing we noticed, whereas in the UK the drunken snack is kebab…here they reach for an open toasted sandwich! We found a chip stall as it just didn’t feel right doing anything else.

129 – The Climate Strike and more food…

Today we had specifically stayed in Warsaw to attend the Climate Strike marches. As we both have environmental degrees, try our best to live eco consciously and Markles being an encyclopedia of science knowledge, we wanted to show our support.

Mark had it all planned, we needed to be at city hall around 1pm. So that’s what we did…and then we stood there on our todd looking confused. I had a quick Google and turns out it was 11am not 1pm… what a pair of numpties 😂🙈 Still it is great to see all the actions around the world… fingers crossed it will activate governments, businesses and more individuals.

As well as this we also visited the lovely food market Hala Mirowska where a pigeon was helping himself to a huge bag of grain, and the world’s narrowest house – the Keret House. Today it was being rented by a couple of musicians. At 152 cm at its widest point and 92 cm at its most narrow, I wondered what the acoustics would be like – they did say they would be playing quite minimalistically.

Another perk of visiting the narrow house is that it’s next to a lovely bakery with different doughnut options…if I stay in Poland too long I will get addicted…there are so many bakeries!

They also had some public cinema posts, where you look through the eye piece and turn a knob and an old photo becomes 3D.

It was a fun precursor to our visit to the Warsaw Fotoplasticon – the oldest stereoscopic cinema in Europe, which has been operating since 1905. You sit on little stools, in a circle around a big drum and look through the eye piece at different slides that rotate around…yes very odd and hard to explain but a great way to see polish history. It was truly devastated during the war, but has been rebuilt with masses of building work still ongoing.

Before leaving our final foodie thing was to try a Zapiekanka – a polish open faced sandwich. We visited Zapiexy Luxusowe which was nicely tucked away. I ordered my ‘make your own’ in polish which raised a smile with my terrible pronunciation but she correctly guessed in English what I was after. Our best tip…go for larger toppings. Things like sweetcorn just fall off and go everywhere 😂

We are now enroute to Krakow and parked up in a moterway carpark for the night. It does the job. Any recommendations for things to visit or eat are always very welcome. We must try a milk bar at some point!

128 – Foodie Heaven!

When exploring a new city there are two things that can be counted on…I will find odd things to do and great food!

I’ve been saving up my calories knowing today was going to be a foodie heaven day, and it didn’t disappoint 😋

Our morning dog walk was to a second hand book/record shop…nope I don’t speak polish but I just love mooching about dusty old bookshops and have a bad habit of buying books and albums solely on their cover design. If you are like me I highly recommend Antykwariat Grochowski. Most people either don’t do this or use Spotify to find new music. I’m way behind the times and as risky activities goes this is pretty tame 😂 So now we have 4 polish CDs that not even the shop owner had heard of…Mark is thrilled. Especially as I made him listen to an opera on the way to Warsaw (now that was on Spotify!) 😂

To console him a little we went to a gorgeous tiny cafe off the beaten track called U Krawiec (not on Happy Cow but do a vegan cinnamon bun and milk alternatives). The coffees were huge, the cake selection was devine, and we opted for pastries as I’d read the polish bakeries make really nice dough…they really do!

It was then back to the van for a rest before catching the tram into the Old Town. We somehow walked in completely the wrong direction but found a great hidden bar area (Pawilony Nowy Świat – best to go ), at night) with a cute vintage shop where I spent far too long but found great treasure – the best of which were £30 leather boots! My style challenge is certainly helping me pick things. Mark preferred the simpler days where getting dressed took me two minutes and didn’t involve him hanging around shops like a lost puppy. It was time to reward him with more food. A breakfast bagel at the funky converted train station ticket office Warszawa Powiśle did the trick.

Refuelled, it was time to head to the library…Mark was confused until I mentioned it had a rooftop garden worth seeing. It’s such a striking building and surely not difficult to create these extra pockets of green space within cities. From here onwards to the Museum of Caricature, which had a brilliant array of works. You don’t need to speak polish or know the politics. Most cover issues that affect everyone. I’ve included photos of some of my favourites.

We finally made our way back to the Old Town, found the Market Square, castle, beautiful architecture and the Uprising Monument which has a very strong dynamic feel to it. There is still much more to explore but we get easily distracted down side streets.

This evening we were initially planning on heading back into town to find a pub for Mark to watch the football in but instead we had delicious pizza at Viadomo – a sort of 70s throw back with relaxed vibe. And Mark’s pudding was a Paczki – polish donut filled with an incredible unusual jam. The bakery is 2mins from home, I may need to get him another.

We are going to bed with very happy full bellies and looking forward to marching it off on the Climate Strike marches tomorrow.

128 – Neon Lights

A very quiet day, while I planned Warsaw, Mark walked the pups, then a long but easy drive.

On arriving we didn’t initially realise we had parked right behind the Neon Museum so had the shortest walk lol.

The museum is small but great. An interesting video talks about how neon was used to reignite the city, but in a controlled way, with each design approved by the state. It was seen as information not advertising.

There are some wonderful examples but much was destroyed or lost. It’s definitely worth a visit.

Our evening was meant to be dinner out and exploring the many bars but it’s pouring with rain and very overcast so a restful night in instead…not sure I can face a run in the rain 😂🌧️

127 – Murals in the Rain

I woke stupidly early and decided to catch up on the blog. As my morning alarm went off and my new routine was set to start I was still beavering away at it. It takes so much longer than I thought, but I love doing it. So yeh not the best start to new beginnings and it was gone 10 before we were walking the pups around the Olympic stadium, but hey that’s life. I will juggle the day to fit it all in, and try again tomorrow morning.

My goals include taking more time over my appearance so I’m following a 7 day style challenge which is fun. I’m happy to send the link if you want to join in. I struggle a bit with vanlife and such a limited wardrobe but yesterday was statement sleeves and today was gold. I just about managed it with bat wing jumper and rose gold splash, but if nothing else at least I’m thinking and creating looks rather than just chucking on leggings and a hoody lol

Today’s destination was Poland’s former textile manufacturing hub Lodz.a We stopped at an arboretum part way to walk the pups, gave Mabel a chance to roll again and found parking right off the main central street.

The creative hub with independent shops and restaurants is called Off Piotrkowska which is a nice place to explore. I treated myself to a cap and drooled over a banana/spots biking jacket I don’t need on account of not having a bike 😂

We then grabbed a delicious hot chocolate from the Chocolate Cafe E Wedel…none of your powder nonsense here, it was pure melted dark chocolate and soya milk 😋

And then the rain came. Mark doesn’t like getting wet, he was almost as grumpy about it as Ernest gets 😂 We dashed to the dazzling Rose Passage which is made of mirror, saw the Israel Poznanski’s Palace, stumbled upon a great anti plastic pop up exhibition and saw some great murals on the way home.

We are now hiding in the van hoping the rain will stop so we can do the food shop. Exciting Tuesday evening lol

126 – Gnomes and Reset

So the day after the big race and I can still move! My knees and hips are surprisingly ok, I have a couple of bruised toes that bled and friction rubs on my thighs and underarm…but mentally I’m still thrilled.

Now 8 weeks into my new fitness regime, I’ve achieved more than I ever dreamed possible, however I had noticed my mental discipline was slipping on the healthy eating and bad habits were creeping back. It was time for a ‘reset’ day.

Oddly as our bodies get used to a routine, around the 8/9 week mark we hit a dip in our energy cycle and need to shake it up, take stock and remind ourselves why we are on this fitness journey. So today’s task – active/total rest and goal setting.

With three dogs and a city to explore, I opted for active rest in the form of a gentle walk around looking for gnomes. Wroclaw love gnomes, and have lots of little sculptures dotted around the city. I’d initially started tagging them on google maps, then read there were over 300!

So after a lovely walk to the centennial park and multimedia foundation with the dogs, Mark and I caught the tram into town, visited the creative courtyard of murals and began the gnome off! Yes we made gnome hunting competitive 😂

This is actually a genius idea by Wroclaw, as you walk miles and are constantly engaged, scanning the ground, features, buildings for little gnomes. If anything you are so busy scanning the small stuff you forget to look up and take in the big picture or key sights. Mark thought we had missed the cathedral, but I remembered a trio of gnomes was next to it 😂

Things really sped up around the beautiful Market Square with a flurry of gnomes and us dashing about trying to be the first to spot and claim them. Haha I know it’s so rediculous, but here are some of the ones we found.

Fast forward an hour or two, Mark is bored of gnome hunting (I’m winning), we stop for coffee and cake at a lovely bookshop/vegan cafe called Vegedajnia Nalanda, take in a few more sculptures then head home.

Then for the goal setting. I spent the whole evening, playing with washi tape to make my journal pretty, and watching my nutrition/fitness coach Dean Byers (Primal Tribe) video on the holistic 10, and thinking up goals around each of them.

The holistic 10 are ten areas of your life that aid your overall well-being. If too few of these are in order then you risk burn out. So you read through and give yourself a point for each you have in order and then strive to get as close to 10 as possible by thinking of new goals and ways of achieving them. I scored 6/10, but am happy there are a few easy wins I can put in place to improve.

Holistic 10

Clothes/Trinkets – are there things you wear that make you feel good (I love my Fitbit and am still wearing a string bracelet as it reminds me of last acro festival with a friend.
Morning and Evening Routines – do you have one? A regular wake up/bedtime
Food – I aim for 40% carb : 30% fat : 30% protein, vegan diet and use MyFitnessPal to track
Sleep – aim for 8hours
Exercise – are you getting some? Doing something you enjoy?
Reading/Inputs – are you taking in knowledge?
Meditation – doesn’t have to be daily but a fortnightly/monthly ‘think hour’ with just pen and paper is a nice exercise for the mind.
Environmental – do you have a place that makes you feel happier? Perhaps the coast/forest/friends house. Do you make time to go there?
People/Relations – we tend to lean towards specific people depending on what our mind/body needs. Do you have a network around you? Do you reach out?
Miscellaneous – something in your routine that has been out of place.

It’s a great exercise, and my mind was still musing over possibilities as I was trying to sleep. I say trying as Jasper and Mabel had opted to sleep horizontally across our bed leaving Mark on the sofa with Ernest and me snuggled same as the dogs grasping as much of the limited duvet as possible. At some point in the night Ernest and Mark swapped in and Jasper left. We might need to think about dog discipline again 🙄

If you fancy trying the holistic 10, do let me know. Or if you have any fitness challenges you think I’d enjoy, I’m always game to hear them.

125 – Just one foot in front of the other…for 26miles

So I hinted yesterday of a surprise…I’d only told three people (hubby, James Dunne a running coach and Dean Byers my fitness coach)…a week ago I signed up to run Wroclaw marathon! They all thought I was mad but wished me well.

It was an insane idea, given I’d done no training – most training plans are 16weeks with previous running experience before that. However my logic followed that if I was considering doing the Istanbul Marathon in 9 weeks (because it was the only one enroute this year), and knew I could run a half marathon, then I’d be doing a long run on Sunday anyway, and at least this was a good way of seeing a new city with no pressure to finish. It sort of makes sense 😂

So here’s what I did…its definitely not the best approach and there are far more sensible ways…but it taught me a few lessons.

Day before

On the back of walking 30,000+ steps looking around Prague until 1am in the morning, I got up on the Saturday tried to run 2miles and my knees/hip were screaming at me. So I came home, did a short home workout and spoke to Dean about how I’d fallen off the fitness regime, was binge eating, and needed a reset. He suggested a complete rest day on Sunday…so I confessed I’d signed up to run a marathon. So Monday is my reset day…and while I likely won’t be able to move much, I can remind myself of my goals, truth doctrine and why I am making these lifestyle changes. I then walked another 20,000 steps around Prague, many of which were up steep hills…not nice or sensible 🙈

Night before…

After a 4 hour drive we rocked up at 9:45pm, I abandoned the van/Mark and ran to the admissions office which closed at 10pm. I got there just in time but my ticket wouldn’t display online (thankfully I’d screenshot it), and then they said my passport ID was wrong…in my haste I’d grabbed Marks 🙈 My jaw hit the floor, but they were so helpful, asked me a bunch of questions and let me get my race pack…do people really lie to get into marathons?!

That night, I was watching tip videos, nervously eating too much and did mobility stretches while worrying my knees and hip, given I’d struggled to do 2miles! The earliest I could get to sleep was 11:30pm, which isn’t ideal.

Race Day

Hubby was a godsend and woke at 5:20 to make me a big bowl of protein porridge, as I’d read you were meant to eat 3 hours before the race began. I ate then dozed until 7:30am, did my meditation, found my comfiest running clothes, rubbed deep heat on my hip and knee, took a paracetamol, taped up my toes that tend to bleed/rub and put a compeed on a bit of my foot I thought was sensitive.

I then packed a load of chocolate coffee squares into a freezer bag and shoved them down my bra top as I didn’t have a running belt. I was pleased with my edible third boob as its a naughty favourite and nutrition advice says not to try new gels/foods on race day. As it happens, I had only one square of my then melted sweaty boob chocolate (and don’t think it was a good idea), and ate two sugar cubes and three Dextro energy tablets as handed out on the route. I also sipped small amounts of water at each water station (not the isowater), as too much makes me feel sick but it was 25degrees so hydration was a must.

I was at the start line with 15mins to spare, did some warm ups, felt like crying, wondered whether my mix of arrogance and naievity had landed me in deep trouble…then breathed reminded myself there was no pressure, other than what I put on myself. Just enjoy, soak up the atmosphere and put one foot in front of the other for as long as you can.

Absolute key to my enjoyment and ultimate success was spotting a runner following the same strategy as me. I’d been advised by James Dunne from Kinetic Revolution to try the Jeff Galloway technique of running then walking. Originally I was going to do 9min run: 1 min walk, but 9mins into the marathon I stopped to walk and felt an encouraging hand on my back saying keep running. Not speaking polish I couldn’t explain it was a set technique, but then I spotted Bartlomiej doing stop/start and got chatting to him. Bless him, he was doing 7:1 and was happy for me to tag along, with the proviso that if I was too slow he would run on without me. As I was just hoping to go as far as possible, this was great. He had run 20+ marathons, set a great pace, and lived locally so pointed out the sights along the way. He introduced his running friends – one of whom was 77, had run the 5k parkrun the day before, had only taken up running at 65 and had since run 30 marathons! What an inspiration ❤️

Mark was hoping to spot me somewhere along the route but the marathon had buggered up the tram routes and he was surprised I’d past the half way Mark much sooner than he anticipated. He spotted me around the 31k with another bag of chocolate coffee squares in hand but I hadn’t eaten any of the first lot.

It was around this point Bartlomiej confessed he was having a bad race – the sun was sapping him and he felt I should go on alone as I had more power, felt fine and was slowing my pace for him. I really didn’t want to, as felt it was his pacing and discipline that had got me this far. However after the 20+ prod of him saying run on, I reluctantly did. I still followed his 7:1 pace right to the end and confess the last 6k was mentally hard. However at least with this technique you can barter with yourself…only 3 more minutes…only 1 more minute then walk time. I pushed on and ignored my knees as they started to hurt (hips and knees were generally ok considering this was their first time running beyond a half marathon).

Entering the boulevard of the Olympic park, I caught a glimpse of the medal – it was huge and the competitor saw me looking and cheered me on. By a miracle I did a sprint finish and was so in shock I almost cried. I finished at 4hours 40min and was elated! I have a tendancy to throw myself in at the deep end with mixed results but I have more grit and determination then I realise.

Mark gave me the biggest hug…as long as not injured he had thought I’d finish, as I’ve got that personality that doesn’t like to give up. He really does support me in all my crazy ideas and life. Thank you!

Having run so far, the typical reaction might be to slump in a grateful heap, but I knew I had to keep moving or else I’d seize up. I had no appetite for the free pasta, banana or chocolate…my body was likely still in shock. And so we walked around the grounds, rested a little then did post run stretch routine, walked the pups for an hour in the park, had an iced coffee at a cafe, dinner in the van…and I was still restless. While Mark was happy to chill, I was still wired and so we went out for another long walk to see a mural in the dark 😂 With 65,555 steps under my belt I’m praying all this walking will mean I can move a bit better tomorrow 🤞I can then decide if the recovery is worth it…and sign up for Istanbul Marathon, or another crazy challenge 😂

124 – Views, caves and yet more sculpture

Compared to my first visit to Prague over a decade ago, there seems so much more to see or do…or perhaps I didn’t research it well enough the first time. There definitely wasn’t the high density of stag parties and drinks I’d been warned about. A few but no worse than Norwich.

My legs were tired after yesterday’s walking so it was a rude awakening to have a steep uphill walk to the Magical Cave – an artist’s surreal grotto with artwork situated in Kinsky Garden. The cave was ok, artwork not really to my taste but the views from the top were so good we figured we didn’t need to do Petrin Tower (a replica of the Eiffel tower).

We then walked back down to a simple but lovely sandwich shop called Bread Gap for some lunch and managed to find the Quo Vadis car sculpture which is hidden in the back garden of the Deutsch embassy.

Mark was keen to see the castle and palaces so we visited the drip wall in the Czech senate – spotted a few faces and a white peahen with chicks, had cake at a open market event, and then had the long climb up the city steps. Top tip organise your route to only go down them, it’s hardwork 😂 I rested outside while he went in as I was tired lol

Having ticked off our sights list we would definitely recommend it. I’m sure you could tailor your trip to suit your tastes. If we had more time we would have visited Cross Bar, Dox centre for contemporary art which has an airship on the roof and a r2d2 bunker…but sadly we had to dash in the afternoon and drive 4 hours to Wroclaw for a surprise!