Food: After perusing tripadvisor.ca for a while, we decide on the Polyester for our first restaurant meal. We order two beer (400ml draft), and two plates of perogies. One set is stuffed with ground meat and topped with fried onions; the other set was stuffed with cream cheese, slathered in strawberry syrup and accompanied with several scoops of whipped cream. The bill was less than 25PLN. Highly recommended.
Breakfast didn't work out as planned. The milk bar we wanted to try had vanished (replaced by Dominos Pizza?). However, we found a great little deli with pre-made sandwiches on wonderful bread. We split three; one with camembert, one with egg, and one with smoked salmon (<$5 for all 3). The latte was more expensive than any of the sandwiches.
Around 14:00, we started walking - first along the river until thwarted by construction, then mostly through parks until we finally reached Łazienki
Palace - a palace on an island in a lake.
By now, it's almost 17:00 so we head up the steep hill to leave, only to find the gate locked. So we go all the way back down, over to another entrance and climb the hill again. We found the place where we were to meet some internet friends and then looked for dinner. Around the corner was a huge place called Szwejka, jam-packed with students. I think they found us the 2nd last table in a cubby hole on the 2nd floor. What a feast. The zurek, Polish sour soup (8.90), a huge green salad with a slab of warm salmon (17.60), a monstrous schnitzel (13.80), draft beer (4.40), and a small bottle of cider (12.00), was more food than we could eat. Half the schnitzel came home with us. So the meal, with a generous tip: 70 PLN or about $25.
Our timing was great as we met our friends right at 19:00 at a nearby coffee place. We chatted for an hour and then caught the tram (wow, fast, quiet, they all have their own right-of-way) back to the hotel. That's it for today.
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