Category: Wroclaw

I wasn’t intending to write this bus journey up, so I’ll admit that the photos aren’t quite as professional as I’d like. The bus stop is located by turning right after leaving the airport terminal, it’s right at the end although is clearly signed.

Given the poor quality of the imagery in this post, here’s a better quality photo from last year to add to proceedings.

Anyway, I digress. It’s possible to buy tickets on the bus, but there’s also a ticket machine and I prefer to use this when there’s time available to do so. It accepts cards and can be switched to English, with everything being self-explanatory.

One single ticket costs about 80p and it’s rather lovely that the authorities have made the decision not to take advantage of passengers here by surcharging the airport route. Other airports could perhaps make a similar decision….. I wasn’t intending to use an Uber, but I checked to see how much a journey would cost and it would have been around £8 which is probably a lot less hassle for those with luggage.

The bus was really quite busy on this occasion and although I got a seat as other passengers were faffing about buying a ticket on board, there were some left standing for the journey. It’s around a thirty minute journey to the city centre and the route ends up at the city’s railway station.

And the centre of Wrocław at around 02:00 in the morning. I wasn’t particularly trying to take a photo of the McDonald’s signage, just a night-time shot that came out blurrier than I wanted. I decided not to faff about any more, so that means this is another blog post that isn’t entirely optimal.

Anyway, this all meant that I arrived at the Ibis Hotel the earliest that I could have expected and I was once again delighted by the city’s transportation system. And I might take better photos next time.

Nestling in the leaves at Pawła Włodkowica 10-12 is the reporter gnome which takes its name from the adjacent Kładka Radiowej Trójki (Radio 3 Footbridge) which crosses the former moat.

It took me a little longer to work this out than it should perhaps have done, but it marks when each country gave women the right to vote.

There was a group of people sitting around the monument at one end, so I focused my attention on the middle bit.

There’s the right for women to vote in Benin, Gabon and Comoros (all French colonies) as well as Egypt in 1956, followed by Lebanon, Mali and Malaysia in the following year.

It’s quite an understated artwork in many ways, but if it makes people have a think about what it represents, that seems sensible and actually quite positive. It’s located on Słoneczny Boulevard and the artwork (or monument, whatever feels the best description) consists of 162 paving slabs. It was installed in 2018 as part of a redevelopment of the area.

Although most of the famous Wrocław gnomes are male, there are also representations of females and this is the Advocate, or Attorney, gnome. It’s located at Bolesława Prusa 1/50 and it’s hear because there is a legal office (or advocate office) inside the building.

The last time that I was in Wrocław I visited the Browar Stu Mostów bistro in the city centre. This time I headed out on the tram to visit their taproom and brewery, located to the north of the city.

The taproom offers views over their brewery and it all feels modern and organised.

I was the only customer throughout the entirety of my visit and I thought it might be slightly busier on an evening, but at least that meant it was peaceful. Well, peaceful in the tap room, they were busy in the brewery itself which was quite loud, but that adds to the authenticity.

The beer list is on Untappd and it’s also displayed here behind the bar, although I found it easier to just look at the online list. It’s a very competent brewery and I’ve had their beers many times in Poland and the UK, although I confess that I only relatively recently realised that they were based in Wrocław.

I ordered a flight of beers from the brewery and these were from left to right:

• WRCLW Schops which was an intriguing beer as it had caramel and banana notes, but was a wheat beer with hints of being a brown beer. It’s not a beer style that I’ve tried before, but that’s not entirely surprising as this is an historical recipe which the brewery are using, bringing back something from the past and I found it very agreeable.
• Lush Lime which was a nicely balanced pastry sour with a lot of gentle lime flavour, even pushing towards being decadent.
• Coco Drift which was my favourite of the four, it was thick like a smoothie with tropical fruit flavours, it was quite a robust pastry sour with just a little tartness.
• The Pumpkin Spice Sour tasted of cinnamon and apricots to ne, it was smooth, rich and pleasant.

The four beers were excellent, all of them of a high standard and I was impressed at the broad range of beer styles that the brewery was producing.

I very much like tartare sauce, so this was an agreeable amount to serve with the fish and chips I ordered. The meal was fine, I’m not sure what kind of fish it was and it was a little bland, but the batter had a depth of flavour, the chips were fluffy inside and the coleslaw added texture. It went well with the beers and the pricing for the whole arrangement was reasonable.

It’s worth the trip out to visit this brewery, it’s a clean and comfortable little taproom and the staff were friendly and engaging. I thought that it would be busier, but I’m sure that it gets quite packed on weekend evenings as it isn’t that large. They also have Concept Stu Mostów next door which is open from 08:00 until 21:00 every day of the week and is more of a restaurant. I think they offer the same beers there, so this is another option for those who don’t want to visit the taproom.