Trzy Kafki Plus Krakow

... experienced elsewhere. After talking to others that are familiar with the other hostels in Krakow, I can only guess that there is vote fixing since satisfaction levels of 95% plus across the board are very rare. This apparently is not uncommon. I may change to another hostel later.

I go to a local, Polish restaurant around the corner. Food is very local, good and very inexpensive. My entrée, 2 sides and a beer are less than $10. The room is full but we all crash early.

... without it I think I would have got lost 200 times on this 3km trip. We did found the city centre, park the car, and walked toward the pedestrian streets ahead. What a surprise, beautifully renovated medieval streets, clean as, and the town centre is a beauty not to be missed if you come this way. We treated ourselves at the local "Michelin ...

... mind walking but you know it is not my prefered method of transportation. I spent a total of 3 nights in Zakopane. The first day, I decided to head up the hill to see Morskie Oko Lake. The lake is located at an elevation of 1,400 meters. There is a second lake about 30-40 minutes further up the mountain. I did the trip with Fez (from the States), Alexandra (from Greece), Ashley (from ...

... be fewer place names in the world that when uttered conjure a more sickening feeling than Auschwitz, the location of the most heinous act against all of humanity. Auschwitz was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and its remains are located approximately 50km west of Krakow in the town of Oswiecim. The drive there is actually quite beautiful but it's hard to relax and enjoy it when you can't stop thinking about where you are going. The sense of foreboding just seems to ...

... This one was like a school dinner hall - filled with people of all ages - eating good cheap food) When we finished lunch we walked up to the Gestapo Headquaters (which is about 20 mins from the Main Square). This Museum is FREE!!! You can see the holding cells where they have orginal writing on the walls and all sorts of war artifacts - quite a sobering place. Worth it if you have time.

... their history and talk about it like it wasn't very long a go, a big difference from the US, I think. My tour guide (we were split into 4 groups) was absolutely wonderful which may have affected my perception of the city-some of my friends had a horrible guide who spoke slowly in monotone and didn't really care so they didn't like Krakow nearly as much as I did. Our tour guide, Katja, took us to the oldest University in ...

... about my life and my years in Belgium and my great appartment on the Brouwersstraat in Leuven. Her smile then, our sex life, her presence and care. We had a simple life back then but what I would give to live it again, such a great one. Besides missing her, what I feel the most nostalgic is to not have realised it and taken the time to live and enjoy every second of it. I'm sorry for the really sporadic arguments we had... enjoying the time being would have been great, instead of ...

... Afterwards we went into the Cemetery which was very pretty. Orthodox Jews put stones onto their tombstones instead of flowers because when they were being chased out they couldnt put flowers on the graves because they had no money or ability to find them, so they put stones. Also, it was interesting that the women had a different section of the synagogue to pray in then the men, in the back. But so we walked around the cemetery for a while and saw a wall ...

... it was a waste of money and that i should take the bus which costs less than $1. So heading out, the bus was waiting. On the way downtown, i was surprised by the amount of mansions on the route down. I was expecting to see lots of poverty, which as i came to learn this certainly is not the case with Krakow. Soon enough it was my stop and i walked down and quickly found myself in the Oldtown Square. I had made a starting reservation earlier in ...

... and headed back to the hostel. Oh yeah, the bathrooms in Poland all cost money to use. Anywhere from ½ a Zloty to 5 Zloty (3 Zloty is worth one USD). Andrew couldn't say Zloty the entire trip, so he called them Zoloft. The next day we woke up and caught the bus to Auschwitz. It was about an hour and 10 minutes from the center of Krakow. It was definitely an experience I will never forget. When I first got there I was really surprised by the look of it. It was all made ...