Hotel Alef Krakow
Swietej Agnieszki 5, Kazimierz Krakow, Southern Poland, 31-071, Poland
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Happy New Year!!! 2012!!
... in the room (because of course it wasn't on already so, again, it was freezing) and stole the space heater from the room next door. We stayed inside for an hour or so and then headed out to see some sites. It was already dark though (it got dark in Poland around 3pm) but the city was pretty with all the lights.
We first walked over to the castle and looked around. It was another castle from the Middle Ages and it was too bad because the inside was already closed. ...
Poland
... exists and though the steel mill does not employ the 40,000 works it once did it was great to see how it would’ve been. We did this whole tour in a 1960’s East German Trabant car – again another glorious example of Eastern Bloc technological prowess! Built over 30 years with little change the cars ran on two-stroke, no fuel gauge, were manual only and offered little luxuries – including no sound deadening!!! We had a great guide and even ...
Polish Hospitality - Great and Terrible
... and duck into the first alley we come across. We are running down a dark cobblestone street when I learned, for the second time in three months, that it is not the BEST idea to run in cowboy boots; especially broken in boots with bad ankle support. Crack goes the right ankle (two months before this I did the exact same thing to the left ankle while running trying to catch a train in Kuala Lumpur). I am now limp-running from the police under ...
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
... 8220;Praha”. The outskirts of Prague near our hostel shared similar features to Budapest in that living conditions were a bit more on the unconventional side. However, as we made our way to Prague’s city center, we discovered what everyone had been talking about. Downtown Prague is a center booming with life, as there are stores, restaurants, monuments, churches, and bars scattered throughout the area. We found that Prague is actually a ...
Krakin Krakow
... which was OK and very informative. The same guide did an afternoon session in the Kazimieraz area of the city which was the jewish quarter and the jewish ghetto, so we decided to go along to that one as well. It was a LONG day of walking - about 5 hours in total, and really informative but very tiring, especially after a night spent on a train!
The next day (14th May), we went ...



