Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there

And the prices are affordable too :)

More of their stuff:

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@Paulina
I'm about to gain weight just by looking at it. 😋🤗

Haha... :D Yeah, look at that wuzetka... and the nut cake... ;O 🤤

More photos :):

1. Staff with faworki (angel wings) :)
2. Staff and the owner with St. Martin's croissants.
3. The interior.
4. The exterior - their ogródek kawiarniany has a view on the Kielce's main promenade (the café is located on the Sienkiewicz Street).

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Same here😃

Give me three of those croissants and a pot of coffee and they would magically disappear.
If the girl sitting by herself left her purse in an empty chair like that on the public streets of Chicago or New York......she would be looking at buying a new one within ten minutes.

Johnny the Magician ;)

@ Paulina.

I love the cafe interiors you posted on the other thread :)

I really dislike coffee chains such as Starbucks as the coffee isn't very good. I much prefer independent coffee shops and I go out for coffee and cake quite often:)

Those cakes look amazing btw :)

@Feniks, I'm glad you like them :)))

Same here. Those look smart though.

I tend to like the old-fashioned ones, not changed much from the PRL era however in Warsaw most I've gone now. There's just a few left. My favourite is the one that has donate just saying "Bar Kawowy" close to Metro Ratusz just by "Gruba Kaśka". It's in an 70s concrete pavilion unchanged for half a century and has a nice atmosphere.

I like places like that. In Kielce I've eaten a few times in a basement cafe under the market. Hearty food and of the past.

There's a newish chain in northern England (an Ulster firm, a lot of the staff have NI accents) called Bob & Bert's. They aren't fancy like that (some are in shipping precincts) but the coffee is top notch and the food is amazing. A different menu from most. A Polish version would be really popular..

I haven't seen many of those to be honest although I've been in some very nice cafes in Poland. I've been to a couple of milk bars but that's not quite the same thing.

I did have coffee in Restauracja Stylowa in Nowa Huta once.


I've heard of them. There's none in my area though :(

There's the new generation of milk bars (a logical evolution) and there's also so ethical g else that you see in a few places. Sort of two-in-one or three-in-one places. One kitchen and a milk bar and one or two better places all adjacent. I used to live near one. The prices and appearance differed; milk bars have a subsidy and in Warsaw they usually accept food stamps, there was one with high tables, cheap set meals and beer next to it where people often just went for a drink, and there was a third with tablecloths and waitresses.


There are a few nice ones there, good atmosphere and very traditional.


Hopefully they'll open one. They really are good.

Last night there was the wildest storm I've probably seen in Kielce in my life. Earlier I left windows open to air the rooms at night and I had to close them quickly, because hail, leaves and small pieces of tree branches were falling into the rooms through the windows :O The wind was really strong. Since the morning I've been hearing fire trucks sirens throughout the day. Unfortunately the hail broke one of the windows in my father's car :/

kielce.naszemiasto.pl/ogromna-nawalnica-z-gradem-i-ulewnym-deszczem-przeszla-nad/ar/c1-9752317

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The insurance company should pay.

It's yet another winter during which you can admire a frozen waterfall in Kadzielnia nature reserve in Kielce. It's both a tourist attraction and a practice ground for climbers. In order to climb it you have to be very experienced though and get a special permission. This waterfall is made artificially by pumping water through pipes from the Kadzielnia's emerald lake.

Btw, the Big Frost is back in Poland and apparently it's going to be -17°C in Kielce tonight 🥶🥶🥶

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It was exactly -17°C in Gdańsk at 8 am, when I was driving to Oliwa. Tomorrow it's going to be even colder...



... it's exceptionally cold for Baltic Coast. Especially with high humidity and wind, it feels like -30.

But we don't have such impressive frozen waterfalls like in Kielce :)

Masakra 🥶


But you have higher chances of seing northern lights up there! I'm jealous! 🥲

Looks amazing :) Doesn't often happen here as it's not usually that cold for long enough.


I've seen pictures of people skating on the frozen Motława. I think I would be worried the ice would crack but looks like good fun.

I was in Poland over Xmas in the winter of 2009/10. It was -20 C then but I've felt colder in the UK. Different type of cold in Poland.

Depends where you are.

Away from the sea, with less wind and low air humidity, -20 is not that bad. I used to go hunting in białostockie with my Dad - it could be as cold as -30 but still we enjoyed our hunting walks in snowy forests and slept in a travel trailer! :) However, -20 on the Baltic Coast is a different story altogether. Brutal.

Coldest part of Poland I think. Not been to the north east yet.


I'd love that but without the hunting part. I like the outdoors. Just about every part of the country had snow a while back but not where I am :(


I went to Gdańsk years ago in late October. It was about 5 C but the coldest I've felt in Poland. Biting wind the whole time I was there.

the coldest I ever felt was in London on a February day with a strong northerly wind - I was supposed to do small job using a scaffold and I forgot my working gloves - after assembling the scaffold I was unable to do anything with my hands they felt so cold

The UK can get very cold and the atmosphere is damp so you feel colder. A couple of weeks ago Scotland got down to almost -19C.

oh wow - must have been somewhere in the Highlands though, I guess (Ben Nevis? :P)

Yep :) A place called Altnaharra:

itv.com/news/2025-01-11/temperature-falls-to-18c-in-scottish-hamlet-as-cold-spell-continues

you know what: the coldest we got this winter here near Opole was -16 I think

In our area it is supposed to be "only" 0 C° today.

@Torq, that's so cool, it looks like a scene from an old painting :)

@Paulina

Well, this painting comes from the period called "Little Ice Age" in Northern Europe (when you could ride a sleigh on the frozen Baltic Sea). I hope we are not entering another one. :)

@ Torq, thanks for the video. Looks like great fun. Makes me wish I could skate...

I guess everyone knows how to do it, just like riding a bike. 🤷‍♂️