This post will range a bit all over the place as we ranged a bit all over Poznan that afternoon (May 23). Some of it intentional, some of it accidental, but most of it interesting.
Started a bit aimless, taking general shots of the city vibes.
Then the
Muzeum Czekolady got our attention.
Didn't actually by anything. Not sure why. I do remember it all looking pretty good. Maybe the effects of a belly full of jalapeño cheese fries suppressed the impulse.
After a bit of wandering we decided to get onto the main goal of seeing
Srodka, which I understood to be a charming little neighborhood anchored by a now famous mural. While we could walk it (about 30 minutes from the hotel), or take a Bolt, we decided to rent scooters. Skies had cleared and the weather was now beautiful. So we found some scooters and headed east toward the river, from where we'd make our way north to Srodka. Except we went the wrong way, as illustrated by the dark blue line heading south here.
Turned out to be a lovely detour. The river vibes reminded me of the path along Lake Michigan on the north side of Chicago. It was a Friday afternoon / evening and we passed by a few groups with ad hoc hangouts and grills fired up. Low key, informal socializing and taking advantage of the city's chill common areas. Nice. Also passed by
KontenerART, which looked very cool. Something for another visit with more free time and warmer temps.
We eventually did get turned around and made it up to Srodka. Saw the mural. And saw the two streets that make up the majority of Srodka. I expected it to be small. We learned it's actually tiny. Cool enough, but I'm glad we scooted over there rather than walked 30 minutes each way. Not something you really need to go out of your way for, in my opinion. I'd rather spend the time at KontenerART enjoying a craft beer.
This place
Humhum looked to have the best outdoor space in the area. Some other time in some other weather it'd probably be a good hang.
We scooted our way back to the center then hopped off for a bit of wandering along Półwiejska, which runs north-south from the main square toward Stary Browar. Lively-ish stretch of shops, cafes, retail, restaurants. Bit of everything.
There is Pyraland, a baked potato concept that looked amazing (
4.8 rating on google).
There was the instagram-bait ice cream truck.
There was an upscale-ish non-Zabka type of grocery / convenience store that taunted me with more craft beer than I had time to even think about.
And then, in retrospect, was one of the highlights of Poznan. A discount store named "
Dealz". Just an explosion of random snack and drink brands from all over the world. Probably a lot of test-market line extensions that were discontinued or miscellaneous overstocks. The selection was glorious. Had I known just how much I was going to enjoy these "relaxed paprika style' knock off cheetos I would have bought an extra suitcased and loaded up. Damn.
(also, is the red thing with the eyes supposed to be the paprika? not sure. but he / it doesn't appear especially 'relaxed' there)
I did at least convince Judy to stage an 'action shot' where she's grabbing for those relaxed paprika Chillers, so I'll always have that.
Having covered a good amount of ground for the afternoon it was back to the hotel for a little pre-dinner regroup.
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