Boiled sausages, cabbage, and strong beer — it’s looking like the Irish fans will fit right in Poland.

*Poznan has never been on the tourist trail — something it’ll prove hard to believe when you find yourself rambling through its myriad of cobbled streets or sipping a cool beer on a sweltering day in the old town square. Although parts of the suburbs are clustered with social-realist blocks of flats, the city centre’s 19th century German architecture is eye-candy for building lovers — Poznan was part of the German Reich for 150 years until it was handed back to the Poles at the end of WWII.