Zoo not Z.o.o.

What to do before the leaves all fall away, and when you are a cheapskate like me on the turn of the month? Well of course use the fact that it is low season prices at the zoo! Let us go for a stroll.

The gardens in front of the zoo were all awash with leaves.

time for a mars bar or maybe some coke, right?

whiskered slug

Rescue storks, or maybe this why the birth rate is down, all these storks not delivering babies.

Well it all seems too much for this thinker. Same for me. day over.

Trip to Wedel, like a greedy school kid.

Every year in December Wedel, the most famous Polish chocolate company, has an open day. You have to book in quick as tickets vanish in seconds on the internet.We got in the second it opened online and had to get the third time we wanted! It is that popular. But I do recommend it.

because you get samples

of all sorts

even new things. like this watermelon flavoured chocolate.

Not everyone likes chocolate on the weekends.

Chocolate on the move

boxed up for the masses

And wrapped for transport.

These guys

make cool things

bears too

Frogs and elephants

Even the board room table has the company symbol built into it.

And the light fixtures

It is always chocolate time on this clock.

The arrow points to where all the chocolate went.... in me.

There is also chocolate art

Balerinki

Everything in this display is chocolate.... except the woman.

Even though it was Decemeber we could still walk outside.

And headed into Nowy Swiat where the Christmas decorations were going up.

with a small army

Everyone seems to be happy.

Biking about Warsaw

As the threat of snow looms high in the air, let us remember the time of t-shirts and sunshine when we could bike about town freely.

Other hotels are available.

Other reptiles are available

other cancers are available

I do love that a major supplier of wedding and engagement rings is called... Apart.

Powisle spaghetti and meatballs, other forms of pasta are available.

And city bikes in the foreground other forms of transport are available (but biking is best)

National stadium

free hammocks next to the national stadium

Or tai chi, other forms of relaxation are available

In Praga (the East/Right bank) there is a nice park called Park Skarszewski, next to the Wedel chocolate factory. There is this little cafe which has received rave reviews.

However, the cakes were rankly over sweet, even this orange cake

After eating half of each piece we nearly wanted to vomit.

Not even the super weak and disgusting coffee could cover the flavour. It is built in an old public toilet so kudos for that, but the food and coffee taste like it still is a public toilet. My hot tip, avoid.