Apartment Hunting
Trip Start
Jan 10, 2005
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Trip End
Ongoing
Kraków,
Poland
Sunday, August 14, 2005
After a few days we headed to Kraków and stayed with our other friend Monika who was flat-sitting for someone while we did some apartment hunting. Luckily Greg's school helps with that sort of thing, so we didn't really have to do anything except look at flats. Most of them were absolutely horrible, but we found one without much trouble, and moved in four days later. It's a pretty big flat (52m), with two rooms (basically a living room and a study - we sleep in the living room), and it's nice and clean, with a newly renovated bathroom
Our new apartment
. Best of all is the location. It's in an area of Kraków called Debniki which is across the Vistula from the Royal Castle. We're about two minutes from the park by the river, which has really good bike and walking paths, and is a great place to sit and relax on a warm day. After moving in we spent a week settling in, and found it really difficult to motivate ourselves to continue travelling. It was so nice to have our own place in the city we've been dreaming of for so long. While in Kraków we managed to do a few things other than looking for a place. We found some cool bars and a little cafe in Kazimierz (the old Jewish district) that sells fresh bagels with real cream cheese. They claim that the bagel originated in Poland, however these are the first we've seen. It was almost overwhelming to eat one. It reminded me so much of home, I can't even explain it. We saw a jazz concert, part of the summer jazz festival in Krakow, and saw the museum of the famous Polish artist, playwright and stained glass window designer, Stanislaw Wyspianski. We also managed to meet up with Witold while he was here and then later Matt and Meaghan, which was really awesome. There's nothing like seeing friends from home when you're abroad.
