Aparthotel Kazimierz & Lorenzo Krakow
Bozego Ciala 14 Krakow, Southern Poland, 31-059, Poland
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Poles apart
... city, however, means the religious folk scamp about town in their traditional gowns accompanied with leather jackets, beanies and doc martens. In fact Krakow feels more central European and less Soviet than I had expected, although I sense this is an exception to the rule in Poland. Krakow has benefited from it's lucky geography throughout history that means it collected a fancy set of period architecture pre-Communism, and plenty of ...
Goodbye Poland (For Now Anyway)
... in the Tatra mountains to the south.
Now off to the station and back to Warsaw by train. There was a German couple (our age) in our carriage on the way back and we had a number of very interesting conversations with them as you might expect being in Poland. They were going north of Warsaw where they were joining a bike tour. Tomorrow morning we will be off to the airport to catch a flight to Calgary via Frankfurt.
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Polish Hospitality - Great and Terrible
... us, pointing and shrieking, we start backing away from the door pointing and yelling back at her. Well, that’s when I noticed the police hanging out down the block. This gets their attention. She sees them. She starts pointing at us and yelling to them in Polish. They start jogging towards us. We quickly decide that we are not going to stick around and find out what lies she is telling them. The three of us begin a dead sprint down ...
Warsaw to Krakow
... to get on an earlier train but what we didn't realise was that it was an all stations train. It wouldn't have been so bad if we hadn't just spent 17 hours on the train from Moscow.
We managed to find our way to the hostel pretty easily but it is pooring with rain and cold. We were dripping wet from head to toe when we walk in the door.
Our Room is nice. Themed ...
Just one day out of life - it would be so nice
... though, how a communist suburb looks no different to some parts of Richmond. In fact, many Melbourne suburbs look far more communist than Nowa Huta.
I had a look through the Japanese museum before. There was a collection of samurai swords, all very old and precious, and a tad boring. It is run by the Krakow-Kyoto society, and I would like to know more about this societies' origins. I can see the bond between these cities - both were ancient capitals that were ...


