After an enjoyable 3-night stay in Wrocław it was time to check out Poznan. We arrived by train. Ride itself was smooth and easy. Once off the train it was another matter. For some reason we could not get a Bolt in less than 15 minutes. Jesus.
So we're sitting outside at the train station for a while. Temperature was fine. No rain. But there were a few factors making the wait a bit awkward. First were the taxi hustlers eye-balling us (on a 10 scale of aggressiveness these guys were a 2, but still, I was being eye-balled). Then there was the group of drunks / addicts on a bench over behind us getting a little loud. They mostly kept to themselves, but it was a variable to be aware of while waiting 18 MINUTES for the Bolt. And finally we had to fend off the super-enthusiastic solicitation fella going around to people trying to get donations or recruits or something. Very strange. We got him to bug off without too much hassle. (This might have been one of the times where we offered a 'gracias' instead of offering up English when trying to deflect promotion people. Couple of times we got surprisingly fluent Spanish right back. Most of the time they would veer off looking for easier targets.) All in all, nothing particularly threatening by any means, but not the best start to our stay in Poznan. Net takeaway: if you're arriving in Poznan by train for the first time, you should either be ready for this situation or have a car service pre-arranged. And I would imagine arriving after dark would make it all a bit less comfortable.
Bolt finally arrived and got us off to the hotel without incident. Next two nights would be checking out the
Fortune Old Town Boutique Hotel. As you can see in my Bolt screengrab above, the phone battery was low so I failed to snap my own exterior shots upon arrival and forgot to grab them later apparently. So these screengrabs from their Google listing will have to do.
Interior shot is mine, though
We booked the 'deluxe apartment' room or something like that. Pleasant 2-night stay. Close to all the action of the center but was totally quiet by us on Friday & Saturday night. Would recommend based on our experience.
First obvious objective was to get over the the center of town, near and around
, which was just a 7 minute walk from the hotel, más o menos. Picturesque, like everywhere else we'd been this trip.
As you might ascertain from those last two shots, the weather was not 100% on our side. Erratic showers in the forecast. Nothing too intense or long lasting. But disruptive. And poorly-timed. Or perfectly timed, depending on how you see it. The rain opened up before we had time to roam around and find a nice place to eat a late lunch, so we wound up at
. It was close, open, and covered under a portico with a view to the square. So we agreed on 'Z jalapeño' and enjoyed a big ol' basket of cheese fries with jalapeños and paprika. Pretty solid, actually.
The rain subsided right around the same time we polished off the fries, so we headed back to the hotel for a recharge before venturing off to part II of the day.
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