May 23, 2018 - Elisa's Upcoming Articles, 10 Facts About Wroclaw and From Kraków to Wroclaw, Poland

Elisa's Daily Scoop
Covering Long Island & NYC Boroughs
CURRENTLY IN: GARDEN CITY, NY

Upcoming Articles & 10 Facts About Wroclaw, Poland

Hello!  Is anyone else as excited as me that the sun is out today???

I'm not sure if she is going to stay, but it sure is nice to see her for a bit to brighten up the morning!!!

Well, here I am, mid-week, and I'm so excited about my upcoming articles for you!!  They are almost written!  (Did I ever mention, I work on multiple articles at a time?  Yes, I like to write a bit - and leave it - then I come back with more inspiration)

Interior of The Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, NY (c) travelincousins.com

So, here's what's coming - no dates yet!

Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City - The Largest Cathedral in the World

Elisa's Five Hot Picks For Afternoon Tea on Long Island 

Beautiful Churches of The Bronx

Check back later - I have to run out - but I'm gong to be adding 10 Facts About Wroclaw, Poland for you!!

Be Back in a few!!
​-E

GUESS WHO'S BACK??
Yup - finished with my errands.  Today was also Field Day for my kids - so there was a lot going on.

Gianna and her girlfriends - last Field Day at current school - high school bound next year (c) travelincousins.com

Kelsey and her class - two more Field Days to go before graduating (c) travelincousins.com

As promised...

10 Fun Facts About Wroclaw, Poland

https://www.local-life.com

1. Wroclaw is located on the Oder River in western Poland. 

2. Wroclaw is the largest city in western Poland and is the fourth largest city in Poland.

3. The consulting company Mercer ranked Wroclaw the “Best City to Live” in 2015 judged on 230 cities.

4. It is said that Wroclaw is home to one of the oldest restaurants in all of Europe (Piwnica Świdnicka), which is located in the old City Hall’s basement and has been operating since around 1275.

​5. Preceding World War II, Breslau (now Wroclaw) had the third largest Jewish population of all German cities.

Grunwaldzki Bridge (http://www.wroclaw-online.eu)

6. The earliest knowledge of Wroclaw dates to the ninth century, when a Slavic tribe made a fort here on the delightfully named Tum island. The tribe was soon mopped up by the Czechs, whose legendary ruler Vratislav provided the origins for the city's name.

7. The Market Square has cobble stone streets, horse-drawn carriages, open-air restaurants and is the center of the city.

8. Wroclaw has 72 Roman Catholic churches and the largest collection of these can be found on Cathedral Island which is also considered to be the oldest part of the city.  

9. The Jewish community whose origins date back to the 13th century and its White Stork Synagogue built in the 1820s by a famous German architect, K.F.Langhans, is a masterpiece of art. This three-story building erected in the NeoClassical style is mostly noted for the large exterior Corinthian pillars and interior galleries.

10. Wroclaw is situated on 12 islands connected by 112 bridges - is often referred to as ‘’Lower Silesian Venice.’’ Before World War II within the city boundaries there were as many as 303 bridges and footbridges. Nowadays taking into account modern criteria i.e. all the river bridges, canal bridges, footbridges over the railway tracks and the streets, there are about 220 of them. The most famous being ​Grunwaldzki Bridge

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 Hope you enjoy this information - and I hope Tanya gets to see many of these sites listed!

-E
xoxo

Tanya's Daily Scoop​​
Covering the West Coast & the World
CURRENTLY TRAVELING IN: WROCLAW, POLAND

From Kraków to Wroclaw

Hi Guys - Tanya is making her way from Kraków to Wroclaw, Poland today.  Here are a few pictures taken by Tanya from St. Mary's Basilica Tower in Kraków this morning.

She will be back later with some pictures from Wroclaw today!! - E

KRAKÓW, POLAND

View of Krakow from tower in St. Mary's Basilica (c) travelincousins.com

(c) travelincousins.com

WROCLAW, POLAND
Unfortunately, a bit overcast and raining, so the lighting is not great - but still so charming!! - E

Clock Tower - "Ratusz" or City Hall, Wroclaw, Poland (c) travelincousins.com

Old Town Main Square - Wroclaw, Poland (c) travelincousins.com

Old Town - Wroclaw, Poland (c) travelincousins.com

Old Town - Wroclaw, Poland (c) travelincousins.com

Old Town - Wroclaw, Poland (c) travelincousins.com

Hello everyone!

Travelin' Tanya here again to bring you some more Poland vacation highlights...

Once again we found ourselves waking up at The Imperial Hotel located right in the heart of Krakow all with views from our bed of the Town Hall Tower.

What an absolutely awesome location!

But boy am I quite glad that I stuck to my planned agenda/schedule and therefore having already taken so many pictures of this great Polish city.
Because as you'll see today was quite overcast/rainy and the lighting just wasn't at all that great.

Strange as it is, some of the local restaurants that serve breakfast don't open until 10am!

Soooo of course I need to fill in the earlier part of the morning with things to do and although this morning it was all about St. Mary's - which you may or may not recall being one of my very favorite cathedrals from around the world. 

The first stop would be to take a few pics of the giant Head - ‘Eros Bendato’ (Eros Bound), the work of Polish artist Igor Mitoraj. 

Me and the Giant Head (c)travelincousins.com

SIDE NOTE: From the moment we arrived, I knew of this sculpture. But I just could not put my finger on what city I had seen it before. I knew that it was while traveling with the kids and I could picture it - but I just could not put my finger on it until today.

We had come across this sculpture in 2013 while touring Lugano, Switzerland. ​

Lugano, CH circa 2013 (c)travelincousins.com

BACK TO KRAKOW...
​Upon arriving to the St. Mary's ticket window we found out that the church didn't open until 11:30a.

Weird if you ask me.

What was open however was the Straży Tower – the only tower in the world from which a trumpeter has played the Heynal (bugle call) every hour throughout the entire day for over six hundred years!

We all know that I have climbed many a tower to catch a view, but I honestly don't recall climbing this one during my  2015 visit to this cathedral.

So this would be a first time (I think - lol); Dave and I climbed the 239 steps to the top and were rewarded with amazing views of the city and the surrounding hills in the background.
​It was well worth it and we stayed up there longer than most with all the different views, camera angles, etc that I had to take.

​The only thing that would've made this eye candy any sweeter would've been those beautiful blue skies that we have become accustom to!

Then we were off to go eat breakfast back at my new favorite - Veganic.
Since we ate 2 breakfasts and 2 dinners there, we were starting to get to know the servers. And today the server (who we also had last night) had asked me if he could ask me a question...

He wanted to know if he's seen me in the movies! 
Well, maybe but that would've been before his time. Unless Krakow shows a lot of reruns! LOL

I suggested that perhaps he's seen my picture online and he believes that he did in fact know me from either or.   Could be! 
HECK I am....Famous in Peru!

Anyhow it was time to do a bit more shopping before loading up the car and driving about 3 hours to Wroclaw.

At first the weather was all rainy and the pictures were coming out useless. But once the rain had let up, I had snapped away regardless of the sucky lighting.  

WROCLAW - 

Eventually having a yummy dinner right there in the heart of the Old Market Square. And strolling afterwards in hunt of some famous little fellas that are all over Wroclaw. GNOMES.
And from what I've been told - there are now over 500 of these little statues.

We even bought a map to show us where they are heading in plain sight. The map only goes up to 212, sounds like they might need to update the publication! LOL

But the night was still young and so I wanted to continue strolling. We made our way to Cathedral Island, the back to the Market Square capturing some great evening lighting. WHEW!

Then poor Dave's feet and legs were getting all sorts of tired. I calculated the milage that we've been walking since our arrival - as of today we are up to 51 miles and we are so much more to go!

On that note I'll do just that...go
-Travelin' Tanya ​