After a morning visit to Sellin, it was time to visit the northern part of the island. The island of Rügen is famous for its coastal cliffs and we decided to explore one of them. We had once been on a cliff in Denmark and wanted to compare how they would look here. The area north...
We'd never had a chance to visit a submarine, so visiting this place was our top priority that day. HMS Otus is a British submarine. She was launched in 1962 and served in the Royal Navy from 1963 to 1991. It ended its service in the port of Portsmouth. Later, it was bought by a German...
Sellin is a small village we found on Rügen Island. There is a unique building on the pier. It's a house that contains a restaurant. This place is so unique that it often appears on lists of the most beautiful places to visit. It is also often shown on postcards and brochures about Rügen Island....
We are off on a new adventure. This time we chose a bicycle trip on the sunny island of Bornholm. The ferry departs on Sunday from Sassnitz. We decided to spend Saturday on the German island of Rügen. About the ferry - it was a funny situation. When we wanted to book the ferry tickets, we...
During the long May weekend, we decided to visit Wrocław with the kids. Our plan was quite ambitious: two days spent seeing the most interesting kid-friendly attractions. We had booked a hotel in the suburban town of Siechnice. The plan was as follows: SATURDAY visit the Kolejkowo model railway exhibition at Świebodzki Railway Station, enjoy the...
Hydropolis is a center of knowledge about water. It is located in Wroclaw in a historic building on Na Grobli Street. In the past, a clean water tank was located here, and now it has been replaced with a modern educational center. Fun fact: Hydropolis opened on 5 December 2015. The exhibition fills a neo-Gothic underground...
Quite an unusual attraction for a city is a ride across the river by cable car. This type of transportation is more popular in mountainous areas. Wroclaw University of Technology decided to connect two areas of the university in this way (Geocentrum and the main buildings of the campus). They named it Polinka. The cable car...
It is rare to have the opportunity to enter a church tower and enjoy the view from the top. Wrocław Cathedral of St. John the Baptist offers just that. It is true that we had already seen the city from the Sky Tower in Wrocław, but it is not the same. We got to the...
We saw Afrykarium under construction when we visited Wrocław Zoo last time. It was in September 2014. Since then we wanted to come back here. And here we are, two years later… The new building of Afrykarium-Aquarium is located inside the Wroclaw Zoo. It is not possible to buy tickets only for that attraction (as...
51 floors, 212 meters high, 1,142 steps, 30,000 tons of steel, 144,000 m3 of concrete, 40,000 sq m of glass and 2,700 km of cables. It is hard to imagine. Those are the numbers behind Sky Tower, the tallest building in Wrocław. How many floors does Sky Tower have? The tower has 51 floors above...
We visited another place in Poland where we could see the world in miniature. Last time, we were at "Mikroskala" in Konin, and now we went to Wrocław to explore "Kolejkowo". It advertises itself as the largest model railway in Poland. Kolejkowo is located in the building of the old train station - Świebodzki Railway Station....
We took the children to visit one of the buildings of the Poznań Fortress. We chose Fort Va "Zwischenwerk Bonin" located on Lechicka Street. It is one of 18 forts surrounding the city of Poznań, built by the Prussian army between 1887 and 1890. Fun fact: the name Bonin honours Eduard von Bonin, and in...
