Boleslawiec, Poland

The weekend of 18 October, we caravaned with a group of friends to Boleslawiec, Poland. The sole purpose of the trip was to buy handmade pottery! Since it was a longer trip, about 6 hours, we stayed in Dresden, Germany, on Friday night and were on the road between 6 and 6:30 on Saturday morning so that we were sure to be shopping by 8. We got to see a beautiful sunrise as we were entering Poland. Luckily, we had a couple experienced Polish pottery shoppers with us, and we were able to hit between 8 and 1o shops before they closed by mid-afternoon.

A bit overwhelming at first...so many patterns, styles, and qualities of pottery to choose from, but we quickly started making purchases. While some people come home from Poland with entire new dish sets, we went with two goals...several serving dishes for ourselves and the majority of our Christmas shopping done. We are proud to say we accomplished both of our goals! (Probably the first year ever that about 95% of our shopping was complete before December!)

We stopped for lunch at a really cute restaurant and had traditional Polish food for lunch...including pierogis, which were amazing! Although we didn't have a lot of time for sightseeing, Kurt and Melanie explored the main square in Boleslawiec, on our way out of town on Sunday. They said it was really pretty and took some nice pictures.

Click below to see our album from the weekend: