Pszczyna

Today the sun was out and everything looked bright for a great day trip to Pszczyna to see the Palace of the German Princess Daisy. We were moving right along when suddenly traffic came to a dead stop. Arrgh, as Charlie Brown would say, we spent an hour stuck behind traffic in road construction. When we arrived, parked and made our way through the beautiful park to the Palace we discovered that we were one half hour too late to purchase admission for the last showing. We were so bummed. All that time, all that driving, all that disappointment.

Fot: Pszczyna Palace, Aneta

We tried tor retrieve something of the day and wandered around the town square taking pictures of the beautiful old buildings with their minaretes, steeples and watch towers. We finally decided on a sidewalk cafe for lunch, secured a high chair for Ania and ordered a nice beet root soup with a Krokiet, a pastry roll of ground pork deep fried. It is quite tasty, actually. I also had a lovely Kava Agnes, which is coffee with freshly whipped cream and dark chocolate shavings atop. Absolutely delicious. Ania had a plate of French fries and managed to eat every single one. They call them "chips" here. For a two year old she was remarkably agreeable on this day. The entire bill for three of us for lunch, with drinks came to just under the equivalent of $17 and my coffee accounted for a full 1/3rd of the bill.

Continuing our exploration of the town square we secured a nice ice cream cone to eat as we wandered. We discovered a plaza with children's rides and treated Ania to a ride on the fire engine. The ride was fine but getting her off the fire engine was another matter entirely!