Hotel Abel Krakow
Jozefa 30 street Krakow, Southern Poland, 31-056, Poland
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Krakow - The Mines and the KL
Krakow has been a blast. Minibus from the station to the Wieliczca Salt Mines….. The highlight of the visit for me was to bump into Brendan, the Tour Leader/Presenter of a Channel 4 reality TV show called Coach Trip. Instead of being locked in a house the lucky participants get to travel around Europe until they get voted out by their fellow …
Auschwitz
A short 3 hour train journey took us to our next port of call, Krakow. We were staying at the small, quaint Hotel Abel. After dumping our bags, it was straight off for an orientation / sightseeing tour of the city since our time here was limited.
Krakow is renowned as the most beautiful Polish city. Certainly, one thing I noticed during …
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Happy New Year!!! 2012!!
... the entire trip and we were freezing. It was probably the worst train ride ever.
Once we made it to Krakow around 2pm the first thing we did was go into the nearest restaurant (which was Burger King) to warm up and get food since we hadn't eaten anything yet that whole day. After we ate we stayed in there for a while just to warm up some more. Eventually after we thawed out we bundled up some more and headed out to find out hostel. After checking in we cranked up ...
Sad places and a pretty city
... but not in this neck of the woods. After spending too much precious time searching for the appropriate canisters, today we finally forked out for a (cheapish) new backpacking stove, canisters for which we have seen everywhere. Lucky we did, as our last canister ran out mid-rice-boil this evening. So if anyone needs a new backpacking stove when we get home (we bought a brank new one recently...bummer!), you might want to seek us out.
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Poland
... was an interesting day. In the morning we went on a 'Crazy Guides Communist Tour' of Nowa Huta. NH was the soviet idea for an ideal Communist Workers City. It was constructed around a steel mill they built (a present from Stalin), however they had to train the iron ore in and then train the steel out – a business model I am sure even Daniel Lock would not be keen on. The city was built with great fanfare and lots of glorious soviet communist architecture. The ...


