Dziękuję Poznan

Just for this time I will write in English (Remember I’m almost a trilingual porcupine). The cause is simple, the friends we visited in Poznan don’t speak very good Spanish and we would like them to understand that we had a great time in their city.

As a birthday present Alejandro reserved a cheap flight to Poznan. We were not interested in the famous conference that was held in that city or in the cold weather but in visiting our first polish friend, Kasia. We met Kasia in Barcelona almost a year ago and she made very good friends with Alejandro because of a common interest in basketball and movies.

So we traveled as illegal immigrants (Alejandro had his ID card expired but he likes strong emotions) and hopefully we found no policemen in the airport. Even though it was the end of winter, the weather was almost polar and my thorns were almost frozen. Alejandro used the onion tactic, with a lot of layers of clothes.

We stayed at a cozy hostel where we were the only guests. The Hostel was inhabited by a nice dog that every time he saw us demanded Alejandro to play with him. We met Kasia in Poznan downtown and before we got frozen we found her and introduced us to one of the best beers we have tasted, Fortuna Czarna, according to Alejandro is rare mix between a Coke and a Negra Modelo.

Next day it was sunny and we visited Poznan Cathedral, and again we were the only visitors. We got the feeling hat it was not touristic season in Poland. We visited a nice park with a little lake for rowing and I could find some herbs and insects to fight the cold weather. Hopefully we met Kasia before dinner, because Alejandro was starving and I honestly doubt that he could have ordered something to eat in polish.

That same night we met with Magda, another friend we met in Barcelona a year ago and we danced some polish music in a rare and cozy bar. We passed very good time but sometimes we felt lost in translation, it is kind of bizarre not to understand what your neighbor is talking about just beside you.

For you to know, Poznan is a very beautiful city inhabited by a lot of students. It has a gorgeous downtown with a beautiful City Hall and colorful houses of ancient times. We also visited a park with airplanes and tanks in the middle, kind of scary but worthy of watching.

On Saturday we went to Wroclaw (it is not pronounced as it is written) one of the cities with the most bridges in Europe and had a very good time, we even had a beer in a bar with communist decoration, As you can imagine Alejandro was thrilled. I was thrilled we all the gnomes and dwarfes that inhabited the citie long ago. I even sat and talk with one of them.

As all the good times, this one didn’t lasted too much and we had to come back to our Catalan reality, but not without nice presents like a polish tourist guide, a little bottle of Vodka and a lot of Polish Music.

We are looking forward to see Kasia and Magda again!