I went to Warsaw last weekend with Kelly and Danielle. We flew out late Friday night and came back Sunday evening. So didn't have to miss any work. Our flight was suppose to be at 7:05pm from Liverpool airport but we were delayed by 2 hours and didn't take off till 9:51pm which meant just chilling in Liverpool airport bar.
Kelly got wedges - literally 1 potato...
The flight was only 2 hours to Modline airport we landed at 12:45am and straight in a taxi to our Air BnB which was in the old town. Taxi only 20 minutes and cost less that £13.
Was a nice Air BnB - spacious and enough for just 2 nights. Me and Danielle had the bed and Kelly was on the sofa.
Saturday
We didn't get to sleep till 2:30am and got up at 9am ready for a day of exploring.
It was 3° real feel -1° but it wasn't that cold. I had fur lined Dr Martens boots, thermal pants, thermal top, roll neck jumper, coat, scarf and hat fully prepared and was sweating. My back was actually wet! It was colder at home and the temperature was higher! Really didn't need my thermals.
We walked to a bakery I'd been recommended for breakfast.
Couldn't wait to get my coat, scarf and hate off to throw into a locker but the museum was hot too. I did eventually cool down luckily. It was £8 and you got an audio guide which automatically came on depending on where you were.
It was interesting a lot of stuff I didn't know.
It cooled down after the museum so I was no longer sweating and could put my hat back on and didn't need my scarf.
After we walked into the old town
Went to a E.Wedel cafe. Danielle got a hot chocolate and Kelly got the tasting hot chocolate - milk, white, dark and bitter hot chocolate. Tried Kelly's and they were very sweet. It was basically just melted chocolate in a glass. She couldn't even finish them.
There's a random water fountain in the middle of the cafe that was right behind us.
Danielle didn't go a very good job at directing
So take 2...
Waited ages for this to be clear!
We finally got our pierogi fix!
Mixed traditional fried
Mixed traditional boiled
Mixed croquettes
Before going to Warsaw I Googled Polish food as I had no idea what was traditional food and found pierogi which sounded well up my street. Dumplings very similar to gyoza. Think the outer is made the same as gyoza just different fillings and you can get both fried or boiled/steamed. We couldn't decide on fillings so just went for mixed traditional. This came to just over £10 each and that included drinks - water and 2 Mirinda (orange fizzy drink) and 3 random charges no idea what they were.
This was the only place that had mascots trying to pull customers in but they didn't need it as all restaurants that were doing pierogi had a queue out the door. We had to queue but didn't have to wait long at all. It was a very late lunch early dinner at it was about 4pm when we had this meal and was dark when we left.
I got conned into getting a pistachio pretzel... Bit into it and it had JAM INSIDE! All it had was pistachio drizzle on the top no pistachio inside!! Was so disappointed and sad. They had a matcha one but wasn't sure if matcha meant matcha so who knows what that would have been if I got that. Danielle got bounty which had a lot of coconut covering the top and milk chocolate inside. She didn't like it so I ended up eating my own and hers post pierogi and croquettes. I was SO full.
We stubbled on an immersive museum - Melt Museum
Danielle made up
Museum cost £12. Thought the first room was the best. They had some other random rooms where I didn't get any photos as they were crap.
After we went to a cafe and Kelly taught me and Danielle to play card games.
Kelly and Danielle got non-alcoholic mulled wines but Danielle said they were alcoholic.
I got a vanilla oat milk matcha latte that didn't taste of any matcha. The vanilla and oat milk were the only option on the menu not what I would choose for a matcha. They didn't end up charging for it either.
After we walked back to the Air BnB.
Stumbled on a Christmas market - very suprirsed there wasn't more
Kelly got this cfried cheese - pretty sure it was halloumi
Danielle got churros with Nutella which were so much better than the ones I had in Barcelona as they were actually hot and fresh and not stale! They were £5 for 6.
Sunday
We got up at 8:30am to go to the Palace of Culture and Science.
It only cost £5 to go up the viewing deck. We were going to do it the night before but I wanted to go up in the daylight but for that price we should have done it in the day and night. It's not that high only 30 floors and the second tallest building in Warsaw. It was gifted from Russia after the war as they didn't want it give them money.
Views weren't great as it wasn't the clearest day.
After we went to The Communist Museum which cost £6. It's only small
Potato pancakes
Mixed boiled
After we went to a restaurant round the corner for our last pierogi fix. Got mixed friend and boiled again and potato pancakes. The pierogi were better the night before but this had more interesting fillings as it had spicy ones and one had salmon in it.
We then got a taxi to the airport. We were flying back from Chopin airport which was 40 minutes away which only cost us just over £7 each. Airport was tiny basically Ryanair's private airport as all the flights are Ryanair. We managed to play 2 card games then it was time to fly home. We took off at 4:25pm and landed back 5:40pm - which was a lot earlier than it said as it was meant to be 6:25pm which was more Poland time.
It was a nice little weekend away for my first time in Poland. Definitely expected it to be colder but at least it stayed dry as teh weather up until the day before was showing rain/sleet. It was cheap and good food would recommend and do it again. Another capital city to tick off the list!
