Rolling Traveler

I had planned on sleeping late this morning, but the upstairs neighbors are having a new floor put in, so it was a 7:30 am hammer-and-nail wake-up call followed at 8-ish by a buzzing floor polisher. Bear-with-a-sore-head awake, I decided to go for a walk instead of stubbornly trying to sleep with a pillow over my ears.

It’s a chilly autumn morning here, around 39°F (4°C). The neighborhood is a quiet one, with two parks within five minutes of the flat. I went around the block once, then over to the larger park which is beside the Wroclaw University of Technology Architecture Faculty building. There’s been a lot of work done on the city, but it hasn’t made it out here yet, so the sidewalks are still very uneven, and the pathway to the park is heavily potholed. It was still a pleasant walk though: the park was very lovely with the leaves starting to turn gold and russet and amber against the backdrop of the still rich green summer growth.

Stanislaw Tolpa Park in Wroclaw. Left: a view of the fountain. Right: The Architecture Faculty building 

I’m off into the city center now to meet Christian. I noticed on the way in from the airport that there are more and more low-floor trams in Wroclaw, so I’m going to try my luck. When I lived here, I couldn’t use the trams because of the steps up into them: hopefully I don’t take the wrong one and end up getting lost!

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