Walking the Promenade in Poland

It's an established fact that Mickey Mouse makes the best ice cream with chocolate sauce in Rzeszow, Poland.  Apparently people queue for hours in a little corridor inside a building in the promenade to eat this specialty.  This is the ultimate reward for walking the promenade.


Walking the promenade seems to be people's favorite activity in Rzeszow.  Of course, you must wear the latest couture and bring along your partner, children, or medium size, well-behaved dog on a leash at a perfectly synchronized stroll.  You must pretend not to notice anyone else who may be watching you.  Of course, you know they're watching, because you're watching them.

If you do happen to see someone you know, then hugs and kisses (three on alternating cheeks) are acceptable.  Otherwise you are oblivious to the other people walking beside you or sitting on benches and sidewalk cafes.  Holding on to the hand of your significant other to establish ownership, you must stroll down to get your ice cream, and then stroll back eating it, without getting any ice cream or chocolate sauce on your perfect outfit.

Clearly I'm spending way too much time on the promenade, but there isn't much else to do.  I could go to the church across the street from my hostel, where I can hear the bells toll and people singing day and night.  I could go to the Polish museums, where all the signs are in Polish.  I could watch the street musicians in the town square.  I could see old B movies in Polish at the cinema.  But I've already done all this.

I even went to the Irish Pub, which is aptly called the Irish Pub, to try to find English-speaking people.  No luck, but I did find a group of Polish people trying to learn English. 

This is not really a tourist city, so the only organized tour is the underground cellars beneath the town square.  There you can see a plastic replica of the remains of some poor Jewish people who supposedly hid there trying to escape the Nazis. 

According they weren't successful, because the guidebooks say only a few hundred of the 24,000 Jews in town survived.  Naturally, they left town.
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