Agata i Szymon byli w Gliwicach dzisiaj

As the title says, Aggie and Simon were in Gliwice today. We spent the day browsing shoe shops (as shoes are usually much cheaper here than in Australia), wandering around Gliwice, drinking hot chocolates at the Wawel confectionary store, having lunch at the crepe restaurant, going to the Gliwice radio station tower, and having a coffee in a cafe called Gwarek.

Here we are in the Wawel confectionary store consuming our hot chocolates (Gorąca Czekolada). We purchased three of them, one for each of us, but Aggie found that she was unable to drink more than a smidgin of hers, so I gallantly finished it for her. They are made of molten chocolate, and very delicious. (This is also the shop where I buy my Krówki sweets.)

Radiostacja Gliwice, the Radio station museum in Gliwice. This is the site where WWII basically started. Some Nazis pretending to be Poles "took over" the station and broadcast a message saying that the station was now in Polish hands, using the same microphone that Aggie is speaking into. Hitler used this as an excuse to invade Poland on the grounds that it was in defense. The tower is also the tallest wooden structure in the world. Well, the tallest man-made wooden structure. There are some taller trees. The tower itself has the peculiar ability to appear as though it is leaning, depending on how you look at it. The two photos below are taken from the same side of the tower to demonstrate this phenomenon.



The cafe called 'Gwarek' is in the main town square (Rynek), and is inside perspex domes, so that it looks like a fishbowl in summer, and from what I've been told, like an igloo in winter (you can see the shape of the structure from the photo). The coffee was good, I had a cappucino with whipped cream on top, but I think it's a bit on the expensive side. It seems to be the sort of place that one goes to for the main purpose of being seen by others. The chairs were comfortable though, which was a bonus.

Unfortunately the weather wasn't wonderful, as it was drizzling all day and cold, but we still had fun.