Toruń is a medievil town that lies in northern Poland. It is best known worldwide for being the birthplace of Copernicus, and within Poland for it’s great fudge.
I arrived there with Marta at around midday after a three hour train ride from Łódź. Marta loves walking around and has a very good knowledge of her home country, so we took up hours wandering around looking at the old city walls, the ‘Leaning Tower’ on the Vistula side of the city fortifications, the house where Copernicus was born and of course the town hall in the centre. Toruń was untouched during World War II so all of the buildings and gothic structures are original, not reconstructions, which makes it all the more impressive.
We had a drink in a very old fashioned bar, to enter which we had to descend stairs from street level. This style of bar is extremely rare in Poland and is quite a novelty in Toruń. Marta reminded me how lucky I am in Edinburgh to have so many bars like this to choose from as well as modern bars and clubs all in one small city. We sat for the best part of an hour to rest and heat up from the harsh cold outside.
Before taking the train back home we walked around the brightly lit town centre and shopped for the best place to buy some fudge for me to take home to my family.
Other places I visited:
- Łódź
- Warsaw
