The main pedestrian thoroughfare in Wroclaw – on a BEAUTIFUL autumn morning.

Despite my fluency in at least three words of Polish, I failed to realize when purchasing that this is not milk, but buttermilk – it didn’t do much for my breakfast cuppa!

Sushi burgery: impossible to find words for this one.

A Martin Luther gnome outside the oldest Lutheran Church in Wroclaw.

So this is what a real autumn looks like…

A photo was taken near the archeological museum, but I think these are actually statues. I don’t think they are real human cadavers that were trapped and preserved in an ancient peat bog, then exhumed and put on display on a Wroclaw sidewalk outside the museum. However…

Ignacy Paderewski’s memorial. This is a country where a classical pianist and composer becomes the prime minister. (Given the number of times Poland’s been invaded, perhaps they might have done better with a military genius instead of a keyboard maestro? Today is Independence Day in Poland, they celebrate the three times in their history they have achieved independence – firstly bit by bit from the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires in the 19th century, then the Germans in 1918/19, then lastly the Soviet Union in 1989. You can’t say the Poles haven’t had to work for self-rule.

One for Catrina – A gnome orchestra outside the Wroclaw Conservatorium of Music.

Independence Day in Poland

Zander (freshwater pike-perch) and artichokes in a beurre blanc sauce. An absolutely delicious meal. Yes, the good lady ate fish!!!

Love from Wroclaw (i.e. Row-Claw – I still can’t get the locals to pronounce it properly!)

F C-S