Poznan; Monday, 28 July, 2008

Of course, there was no way the train was going to stay on time, but it did a valiant job, and we left the last stop before Poznan just a couple of minutes late.

Then, about 5KM (as it turned out) outside of Poznan the train ground to a halt and then crawled virtually the whole way into Poznan Glowney, in the end it arrived 20 minutes late. I quickly popped into the tourist information centre in the station to buy a Poznan card before getting on the tram to the hotel.

After checking in and dropping off my stuff I headed back out and into the Old Town to have a quick look around. Obviously, this being a Monday, virtually everything was closed, with the exception of one exhibition the Makieta Dawnego Poznania which I visited.

From there I caught the tram out to the island of Ostrów Tumski to have a quick look around the island and the Cathedral. As it was late the whole area was deserted, but this also meant that only part of the Cathedral was open, so I would have to go back to have a fuller look.

I had a wander around the rest of the island and then headed back into town for a spot of dinner.

After a brief pause at the hotel I headed back out after sunset to take some more images of Ostrów Tumski.