Rellie Bashing in Wroclaw

The Rynek

Kamil, Ania, Vicky

We arrived in Wroclaw one day early as previously mentioned. We stayed with my cousin Kamil (camel, to Melanie) and Ania and their daughter Vicky. They had just renovated their apartment in time for our arrival, we didn’t know any of this of course, if we had known we would have offered to stay in a hotel . Camel was supposed to have had it finished by the end of June and he was still painting as we arrived.

Bye Bye Babcia!

We had a very busy 10 days in Poland visiting all my relies, there aren’t that many of them but seeing as I hadn’t seen them in over 7 years I wanted to make sure I saw them a few times. Our time spent with Kamil and Ania was great.  Ania is a great cook and treated us to many home cooked dinners, which for us has been quite rare.  Kamil was busy with work but finished early as often as he could to catch up with us. The kids were kept entertained by Vicky and her array of toys.  She liked to wind Noah up by pinching a toy he was playing with and running off around the furniture laughing, Noah would of course chase after her shouting “my toy!”. This went on day after day.

Lucky Gnomes

The weather we had in Wroclaw was stinkin hot, it hit 30 most days and it was very humid. We escaped the heat one day by going to the new aqua park they built there. It was pretty awesome with indoor and outdoor pools, waterslides, a wave pool which felt just like the waves hitting the shore back home, except without the horrible sand getting stuck in your jocks, and our favouite - the lazy river - great fun watching the kids faces as they got pushed by the current.  The only problem was that there was a thunder storm that day and the indoor and outdoor pools are connected so they closed the pools for about half an hour so we wouldn’t get electrocuted.

Wujek's (unkle's) garden

Wroclaw has changed quite a bit since the last time I saw it.  It is undergoing a major facelift in preparation for the Euro2012 Football Finals. It’s quite difficult to get around the city as a lot of the roads are being worked on. There are plenty of fancy new buildings but also plenty of buildings needing renovation so at the moment at least it’s all looking a bit mixed up.

Keepin it cool

Agnieszka, Babcia, Milly and Pooh

Being in Poland did take some time to get used to, especially for Melanie not being able to communicate, it does feel like a different world from what we’re used to. We had a great time though once we found our stride. We lived like locals riding the buses and trams. Melanie got thrown into the tram doors when the tram was jiggling about while changing tracks, luckily she didn’t get hurt. The kids really loved the public transport, we even caught the bus one night at 10pm coming from my cousins house, they were trying so hard not to fall asleep. Ohh and speaking of jiggling, for the first time in my life I felt my pot belly jiggle while riding the bus. It was quite an experience for me, I am cutting out the beer as soon as we get back to Austria.

Rorbach Senior

Rorbach Junior