August 12 - Moving On

Trzebnica to Wroclaw
This will be a short day on the bike as it is going to be hot and Wroclaw is a big city - at 360,000 the 4th largest city in Poland. Since we skipped the top 3 we thought we would take our time and spend the night there. Also, Damien (from our night in Trziel) had recommended it.

Still we really liked it here in Trzebnica (pop. 12,000) and are a little sorry to be leaving.

Just outside of town we found the Eurovelo 9 route again and it is going where we want to go until we get to the border of the Czech Republic.

A very interesting entry in the outskirts of  Wroclaw. It is construction season everywhere.

This was a great bike path, except it was going the wrong way.....we went left when we should have gone right!

This one is good too.

The Odra River

More high altitude gardening!

The Edith Stein Park. She grew up in Wroclaw. She was a Jew that became a Catholic nun and was executed by the Nazis during WWII. John Paul II declared her the patron saint of Europe.

Church of St. Michael the Archangel...the church you can see from the playground.

Edith Stein's chapel

This is about domestic violence.

The Odra River has 2 branches here so a big part of the city is really an island. 

The art museum. We got to the motel at 1:00, changed clothes, stashed the bikes, ate lunch, and headed out on foot.

On a hot day, the mall seemed to be the place to be.

Still there were lots of people in the central square.....including us of course

We had heard that Wroclaw had elves everywhere. We saw our first one when we stopped at the post office to get some post card stanps

Guess someone thought this guy looked hungry (see the fork).

There are 78 of these little guys scattered around, We picked up a map at the Tourist Information Officc, which is where this one appeared.

We stopped to get some ice cream. As we sat down with our goodies, Donna said, "It sure seems like there should be an elf in a place like this." She then looked past Doug and there they were. The second one is up on the window ledge hauling up the goodies.

We had dinner at a buffet in that big air-conditioned mall. It worked great because we didn't have to interpret any menus, we served ourselves and then paid by the weight of the food on our plate.

Our last elf was back at our hotel, a fun way to end a good day.