I made my first trip on my own using the electric tram. This is an older above-ground trolley system that runs down the middle of the road, with one or two lanes of traffic on each side. I am not sure exactly how these things negotiate the intersections and rotaries, but apparently the trams and cars can accommodate one another. The amount you pay is according to how much time you spend on the tram, which is hard for the uninitiated to calculate, but I fortunately had some help here. You buy your tickets in a little kiosk/newsstand. I was going five stops, which I calculated at 15 minutes, and cost 2 złoty (about 65 cents), which seemed fair. Of course I have nothing really to compare these to – how many such systems are in Maine? (to my Polish readers: zero)

I made this trip to negotiate my first cash transaction on an ATM (thanks Marcin for the help).

As this is a typically European city, the roads are fairly narrow. Most of the roads are two lanes, with sidewalks on each side. These are often brick roads, which I find very attractive but I can imagine would be expensive to maintain. Parking is on the sidewalks, and the curbs are fairly low. Cars are mostly small. It looks like most apartments and businesses have parking somewhere in the middle of the block, with entrances guarded by some contraption or another. Unlike Belgium or Germany, there are almost no bicycles, and I can see that bikes would find unfriendly company on the crowded roadways and constricted sidewalks.