5 super-unique places for those who seek new experiences

  

 

 
 
 
 

A few words from Slowhop:

"Odethnij od miasta. 62 wyjątkowe domy gościnne w Polsce" ("Take a break from the city. 62 unusual guesthouses in Poland"), is a pocket guide, where to run away for the weekend, where to cure your soul from the city fever and where to dust off from smog. Ola Bogusławska points with the finger - go there. She went there, checked, talked with the Hosts and she guarantees with her own pen, that there'll be fine. She prepared for Slowhop 5 places where you should go to get new experiences. And as usual, we encourage you to book them via Slowhop.

 
 

What, if we renovate old guesthouse and make it yours? Gosia Szumska and Maciek Dziczkowski, the most cheerful young couple in the Lower Silesia, set themsleves such task. The neighbourhood of their wooden guesthouse, from the sixteenth century, was the area of gold concentrates extraction and melting. Later, the ravine Złoty Jar, became the point of the German tours, and in 1926 there was built a wooden guesthouse. At the beginning it was very popular, however, after war, it ran-down a little bit and became a typical holiday resort that hosted patients' summer camps and residents of nearby villages coming here for discotheques. No wonder Gosia and Maciek fell in love with Złoty Jar. The very appearance of this triangular wooden guesthouse is impressive. And staying here for the night is a real experience: you can hear the board creaks, see stars from your bed and hear wild  boars and deer from the window. The aura of mystery and the pre-war formation that surround Złoty Jar, is contagious.

 

In Masala there are no clocks, television and signal, instead, there are long night talks about life and travelling, with Asia and Jacek Kowalski, called Masalski. Their house is an Orientin in a nutshell: carpets, curtains and drapes, Indian painted furniture, lamps, sculptures, candles, the incense sticks and the smell of biryani made by Asia, coming from the kitchen. Guests live in the royal apartments, with canopy beds. But from the outside Masala is a tribute to rural life and wild mountains. On the hill behind the house, Masalscy arranged an unusual garden full of herbs and flowers. It's a place where you should come in the summer morning, sit down with a coffee and just delight with the sounds and smells. Unique experience.

 

- This is the first decision in our lives taken based on heart and not reason - say Paulina and Przemek Siudak about their agritourism. Their wood scented house is located in the small village of Bieszczady, where often wild animals go for a walk. Smolnikowe Klimaty is a cameral place, there's only five rooms. Siudaki cook for guests, they serve large portions everyda, they also probably know all the trails in Bieszczady and will help you choose the most appropriate one for you. The hosts were always outgoing and happy to invite guests. Wherever they lived, their door was open for their friends and colleagues. Paulina and Przemek feel good when the house is filled with laughter and conversations. When it's a full of life, cheerful, real. Therefore, Smolnikowe Klimaty is not a place for rent. It's home.

 

The heart of the Old School is a huge twelve-person table. By this table, meals can last for hours, because it's guests' and hosts' favorite place. The table has place of honor in a huge, yet cozy kitchen, with plates hanging and covered with posters from movies about food. Thanks to that you can watch as Jacek and Ewa Tracz cook delicacies that soon will land on your plates.

- All my life I was looking for flavors that I remember. In old buildings there is something from holidays spent in the countryside - says Ewa. - I found it here,in Wysoka Wieś. In fruits, vegetables and cereals growing among unspoiled nature, cultivated by people with passion and understanding of the earth.

Ewa and Jacek have such an approach towards cuisine and cooking. Stara Szkoła is a real kingdom of food, located in the former school built from Prussian bricks, set among landscapes of Dylewskie hills. Anyone who once has visited Stara Szkoła and sat by the big table, will come back there many times!

 
Fajne Miejsce Dębki

In 2007, Ewelina and Kuba Rusak invented the name "Fajne Miesjce", built a small settlement of blue houses in the Scandinavian style, and moved to one of them. Because, as Ewelina says, this is their place on earth. They live here and host guests all year round, because off-season it's also a great address to rest, relax, write a book, mold something from clay, sit by the fireplace in the evening. Run away from the smog, to clean Baltic air, hole up in a cabin with a loved one, or walk along the empty beach.

Year-round cottages of Fajne Miejsce are fully equipped, comfortable and functional. On the walls hang hearts with the inscription "Dębki is a state of mind." And, indeed, to Dębki arrive people with a particular attitude. Those, who want to be close to nature and who not only look for discos and booths with waffles by the Baltic Sea. Dębki is a small village, which, despite the popularity of the Baltic Sea, remains an oasis of tranquility.