We recently picked up and moved across the country - from Mazury to Lower Silesia. I'm not changing the blog name just yet, because "Missouri in Śląsk" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Not only was this a big move, because of distance (it's 580 km / 360 miles, or a 6.5 hour drive from our previous location), but it was a big move due to the fact that we're no longer in a tiny village. Our previous street address listed the village name as the street, because the village was too small to have street names. Now, we live in Wrocław (pronounced vrots-wahv). We went from a village of barely 100 people to a city of almost 700,000. We went from me being the one of three immigrants in the county, to being one of hundreds.
Wrocław is currently the European Capital of Culture. It is also known as the "miasto spotkań" (the meeting place) and the city of bridges, as there are around 100 bridges in Wrocław (if you include footbridges in parks and bridges for trains, it's more like 303), which sits on the Oder.
Wrocław is also the city of dwarves (info in English)! Needless to say, I need to go dwarf hunting.
It's a lot warmer here, and we also have a bidet (which B called "his" sink). So that's fun.
Here are a few pictures from our first few days here - there's a lot more sightseeing to be done, but so little time to do so. Stay tuned.
Not only was this a big move, because of distance (it's 580 km / 360 miles, or a 6.5 hour drive from our previous location), but it was a big move due to the fact that we're no longer in a tiny village. Our previous street address listed the village name as the street, because the village was too small to have street names. Now, we live in Wrocław (pronounced vrots-wahv). We went from a village of barely 100 people to a city of almost 700,000. We went from me being the one of three immigrants in the county, to being one of hundreds.
Wrocław is currently the European Capital of Culture. It is also known as the "miasto spotkań" (the meeting place) and the city of bridges, as there are around 100 bridges in Wrocław (if you include footbridges in parks and bridges for trains, it's more like 303), which sits on the Oder.
Wrocław is also the city of dwarves (info in English)! Needless to say, I need to go dwarf hunting.
It's a lot warmer here, and we also have a bidet (which B called "his" sink). So that's fun.
Here are a few pictures from our first few days here - there's a lot more sightseeing to be done, but so little time to do so. Stay tuned.
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