The Stranger Hostel Krakow

Today is the day, we will finally put up the journal of the last month of our travels, and, theoretically, keep it up to date from now on. That or we will just forget about it and never update it again. We arrived in Krakow at around 5.45 this morning, after a bit of a stressful train ride. There weren't any sleeping compartments on the train so we were left in the free-for-all of the seated compartments, lying down, fearing that at any stop another 6 people would try and come in and wake us ...

I arrived in Krakow early in the afternoon and headed my way over to the Stranger Hostel for a few nights. Apparently so was everyone else and they only had a room for 2 out of 3 nights which wasn't a problem. It seems there would be alot of us checking out after the first day and then staying somewhere else and then coming back. The first night here was spent relaxing and hanging out with more and more people. I had an early morning trip the next day to Auschwitz planned so it was an early n...

On the way to Poland, I had a faily easy time through both security and customs (a first). Nicole on the other hand...hehe. Her metal leg set her up for special screening, and then the guy checking her passport kept giving her the staredown and asking her questions. I just handed in my passport, got the stamp and was on my way. When we got to out hostel (The Stranger Hostel) we dropped our bags, grabbed the camera and headed into town to see what Krakow was all about. The one think I'll never...

Thursday 13 July Finally arrived in Wroclow, went to hostel but they had a 10pm curfew so they recommended Stangers Hostel over the road. I rang the bell but the door was open anyway to much amusement. The receptionist was very nice and she helped me out with a few things and we exchanged war sites stories as she'd just been to Ukraine with her Irish boyfriend. Went to a micro-brewery and joined by some none English speaking women who were on a school reunion so had a great laugh even though ...

Day 10 Today I just realized I'm writing way too much on my journal. As I'm a lazy person I'm risking not to have the energy to type this all over again on my travelogue on the web (since I don't carry a laptop computer with me I'm mostly writing my journal on a notebook). I'll try to be less verbose from now on (let's see if I can!). Well, back to the journal, today I left Wroclaw to Krakow. I shared my cabin on the train with Polish 3 nuns, very friendly as all Poles I met so far. We were k...

Poland, for some reason, has a very high % of very high quality hostels. In Krakow I booked at The Stranger hostel. It was listed in the Lonely Planet Blue List 2006 guide as one of the top ten hostels to visit in the world. Although nice, I failed to see how it could be classified as top ten...IN THE WORLD. It may have been the fact that a large group of school kids was staying and had taken over the main floor that clouded my image. Or maybe it was their free computer that corrupted my came...