No love for a good Polish Smaleć?

But otherwise standard response. Trust Michał, spend your time relaxing or outdoors, do grab some cash in advance or at the first ATM you can find (couple hundred zł should be enough to cover you in an emergency until you get there) but there's a WBK on Lipowa if you need it. Or any other bank, really, but I have more experience with WBK.

Street view also shows lots of cycling infrastructure, if you're into biking around town. However if you're also planning on driving note that drivers in Poland are (IME) generally a bit aggressive yet quite competent. This combines with a general impatience off the main roads, because of a combination of narrow highways, low speed limits through every little town out there, and the chance of traffic being blocked by something large and slow, like a tractor or horse. Usually not a horse. Usually. But it can lead to some interesting driving. Not necessarily dangerous, just different than many people may be used to.

As far as food goes, if you're doing a lot of shopping for groceries you may want to check out Biedronka - it's the equivalent of Aldi/Lidl. But if you want the real experience, check out a small "Sklep" anywhere you can. Or if there's a market in the Rynek ("Rin-ek", n. - town square, an essential Polish word for a tourist) that could be good fun, too.

EDIT: Just remembered! Bring along a few movies/shows from home. If you need some screen-based downtime, it's going to help. I doubt you're going to find much in the way of English-language media (unless you have a Cyfra box at the apartment, because then you have the chance to swap the audio tracks) and relying on local broadband for streaming is going to be hit or miss. E.g. our place in KRK had a 12Mb line, but I have yet to get anything better than a good dial-up connection at my in-laws'. I'd be interested to see if Fi works, though. At the very least bring a few shows, because despite the universal belief that you can still hear the English track over the Lektor... it's still hard. But do watch some TV, though. Just for the experience of the Polish translation.