A Nice Sunday Winter Walk (6 pictures)

So after last nights frustration over the neighbor's party (which did go to 2am), when I woke up this morning and realized that it had warmed up outside (it was only -7C, instead of the recent -17C, and it's amazing how big of a difference that really is), I decided it would be a great day to go for a walk.

I had heard about a large swimming pool complex that opened up back in October out near Malta lake and decided to go find that place and look into whether I would want to go swimming there sometime.  So I hopped onto jakdojade (http://poznan.jakdojade.pl/, it's a great web site) and figured out that if I hopped onto the #6 tram, I could ride it all the way out to the far end of the lake and then walk back home.

It was a nice walk and I grabbed a few pictures along the way.

So I rode out to the Krańcowa stop, walked south to the edge of Malta lake (which is small), and started walking back towards home looking for the pools.  I found the pools quickly and will definitely go back some time.  It's a huge building complex that has two "sports" pools (including a 50 meter pool), a "water park" area with several pools and slides, and a "sauna" area that has 16 different sauna's in it.

A small area of the swimming pools complex.  No pictures from inside.

After visiting the pools complex and figuring out I wanted to come back, I headed to the path around the lake.  At the edge of Malta lake I looked across the lake and saw this:

Yes, that is a small ski slope that is right in town.

After seeing a bunch of other people doing it, I decided to actually walk across the frozen lake to get to the Malta shopping mall, which is one of the two shopping malls I normally go to, and which was on the way home.  You can see some of the paths people took in this picture.

At Malta I grabbed some swimming goggles at the sporting goods store (planning ahead), and took a quick picture of the main atrium in Malta.

As you can see, the Malta mall has 3 levels.

On the way home, I took a bridge over the Warta river, which has frozen over.  Of course, I had to grab a picture of that too.

The Warta river and one shore.

And as I reached the bridge and had just taken this picture, I heard a tram coming and grabbed this picture so that you can see what the Poznań trams look like (some of them, many of the older ones are not green).

So that was my chance to head outside and enjoy the warmer (somewhat) weather today.

Have a wonderful day!