Day - 9 Halfway through the trip

We're halfway through our trip today.  We spent the morning in Wroclaw walking over to Ostrow Tumski, Cathedral Island. It's not really an island, just on the other side of the Odra from Wroclaw proper.  Besides, Wroclaw had the third largest number of bridges of all the cities in Europe, so you can't visit Wroclaw and not cross at least a couple of bridges!

This is where Wroclaw started about a thousand years ago.  Besides the beautiful cathedral which was carefully reconstructed after heavy damage in World War II, there is a single church that has two separate parishes - one that worships upstairs and the other downstairs.  There is a chapel from the 13th century, as well as a Greek Orthodox Church. 

From Ostrow Tumski we walked back for one more trip around the Rynek, and pictures of the town hall, a modern glass fountain, and a small square with several flower stalls that is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  So there's no excuse to show up for dinner empty-handed!

Next stop, Poznan.  We took a train from Wroclaw to Poznan and were met at the station by Piotr.  It was a short walk to the hotel.  It was already time for dinner, and armed with directions fora 15 minute walk, we headed to a restaurant in the Rynek.  Thirty minutes later, we found it!  We went right when we should have gone left, and since it was dark, it was hard to see where we were going. No matter, a delicious dinner and piwo at Gospodar Pod Koziolkami and we were ready for a good night's rest.