Wroclaw - place worth a visit

In my opinion Wroclaw is the friendliest city for students in Poland. Indeed, it seems very cozy and it quickly becomes a second hometown for many incoming students every year. It reflects how this city is great and welcoming.

It is not a mistake – here you can count more than ten big universities - and students have many choices to spend time on in Wroclaw, depending on what they really want to do. Here, you can find a large choice of museums and also many pubs and clubs. There are many places worth visiting not only around the city centre. There is an enormous number of places for entertainment (conventional and special theatres, cinemas ( as Nowy Horyzonty that implements various movies festivals), museums, the opera house, many sport facilities ( with low cost), etc). All of the biggest universities have well-stocked libraries.

Wroclaw is also a good place to rest while exploring the exciting area of Lower Silesia full of very interesting tourist attractions. It's not far from the nearest mountains, so you can visit them in the weekend, or even in one day (but not all of the mountains like the Karpacz mountains). There are many more reasons to recommend this city as a good visiting and living destination.

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Polish cuisine is rich in meat, especially and most frequently in pork, chicken and beef, seasonal vegetables ( cabbages and beetroots), potatoes and herbs. It is also full of various kinds of noodles, the most notable of which are kluski or pierogi as well as cereals. Prices, quality and taste, as everywhere, vary, and depends on the place you go to. In general, I would recommend students' canteens like Cynamon, Wanilia, Bazylia and other similar ones (good quality equals higher prices) or bars like Miś, Mewa, Jacek i Agatka and others (not of a bad quality and with lower prizes).

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Living costs are related to the preferred standard of living but it is easy to underline that in Poland the cost of life is lower than in Western Europe countries. It's not a big deal to have an accommodation for about 150-200 euro, spending other 100 euros on food and a 100 euro on additional outgoings (if you know what I mean) per months.

Sometimes finding accommodation can be a bit complicated, especially when you are looking for a cozy room after the academic year has started or short before it does. There are many websites (FB groups, Gumtree, OLX and others) offering different kind of adds, but the main problem is that those websites are only in Polish. The few adds in English are for sure more expensive because of Erasmus students' adjustments ( increase of the prices for Erasmus). I recommend contacting with your international office first and ask for help from Polish students. I'm sure they will help you with it.

I'm perfectly sure that Polish language won't be easy to learn (if so), but there are language courses available at any University and some language schools for the most ambitious. Honestly, I would recommend peer lessons which are becoming more and more popular nowadays. It has been scientifically proven that learning a language is easier drinking a beer with any Polish student, which gives mutual benefits.

Wroclaw has an airport, so it won't be difficult to get here from furthest cities. But be careful, there is also PolishBus, which is a quite cheap way to get here from Prague or Berlin.

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My other pieces of advice?

Use your local thriving students' committees, that are present at any university. They will help you with your problems and tell you how to spend your free time. Also contact any Polish student – it would be much more easier and authentic for you to get to know something about polish culture, monuments nearby and maybe there will be the possibility to travel around Lower Silesia and Poland together. For more specific information, help, tour guiding, feel free to contact me here, or via Facebook.