[vgtvgt]

I am also living in an apartment block in Wrocław next to this river. I was also born here and what you describe is a gross misrepresentation. While it is not considered clean enough for swimming, you cannot actually smell it going over any bridge. Crowds of people spend evenings and weekends in outdoor pubs right on the banks of Oder and seem unfazed. None of my friends or family has ever mentioned being overwhelmed or even feeling any sort of odor. I wonder how is it possible to have so different impressions of the same place? I also wonder what makes you want to discredit the place where you live so much and create false image of it in other people's heads?

[Ralfp]

I invite you to cross it by either Sikorski bridge or Dmowski bridge when its 30 degree celcius on summer day. It absolutely reeks. The stench goes down with temperature, so I guess its okay when you are drinking at Słodowa or past Grunwald bridge at later hour?

Here is news story about this from 2015 where people complaining about river smelling terrible over other bridges: https://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,18834396,czemu-w...