Sunday, can’t believe we’re already in Poland! It’s about 5:30 am and I thought I’d scribble a little before we arrive in Krakow. Had a bit of a broken sleep (sort of was expecting that) as we stopped at lots of stations and there was a fair bit of shunting of engines and carriages. The Polish passport control came through at 3:00 and didn’t even give us a stamp! (maybe at the train station?)...
It’s a beautiful morning, sitting in a park at the old city gate and things are slowly starting to wake up. The expected ‘park bench’ people are around but also young lovers and others heading off to where ever. The trams are running, the traffic is getting heavier, the birds and chirping, the pigeons are fighting over an old bagel and some Japanese tourists have made an early start. The light is amazing as the sun comes up behind me, lighting the green tinged (moss/lichen) trunks of the trees and giving some warmth. We can’t check into our apartment till 10 so Ash and Wendy have gone off on a reconnaissance to see if there’s somewhere open for a coffee, and I’m looking after the luggage. There’s a fly sunning itself on the top of my laptop screen and I reckon he’s fallen asleep.
We found out yesterday that there’s a mistake in our itinerary because I got a call from Damian from the P&J Apartments asking where we were. We’d said we’d arrive on the 9th, but our train was leaving on the 9th and arriving in the morning on the 10th, oops! I think I mucked up the dates because of the late departure and early arrival, which means that now we only have 2 days in Krakow, dang. We’ll have to do some good planning to get to see what we wanted to in the time we have. Anyway, checked through the rest of the itinerary and it all seems OK. Wandered down to McDonalds and bought 3 cappuccinos for 9 zlotys and checked our the tourist information. Decided on checking out the old city this morning and then off to the salt mines for the afternoon. Tomorrow off to Auschwitz and Birkenau and then back to the old town and the Jewish quarter.
The old city looks great with it’s gates and wall and is all decorated with bunting as they had a festival last week celebrating a defeat of the Tartars. Looking forward to poking around a bit further. Finally checked into the apartment and had a freshen up. Damian (our host) was interested in our itinerary and how must it costs for Australians to travel. He knew it took 8 hours to fly from perth to New Zealand! I agreed with him that Europe was easy to get around in and he told us that last weekend he drove through three countries! Well, now off for some adventures...
It’s a beautiful morning, sitting in a park at the old city gate and things are slowly starting to wake up. The expected ‘park bench’ people are around but also young lovers and others heading off to where ever. The trams are running, the traffic is getting heavier, the birds and chirping, the pigeons are fighting over an old bagel and some Japanese tourists have made an early start. The light is amazing as the sun comes up behind me, lighting the green tinged (moss/lichen) trunks of the trees and giving some warmth. We can’t check into our apartment till 10 so Ash and Wendy have gone off on a reconnaissance to see if there’s somewhere open for a coffee, and I’m looking after the luggage. There’s a fly sunning itself on the top of my laptop screen and I reckon he’s fallen asleep.
We found out yesterday that there’s a mistake in our itinerary because I got a call from Damian from the P&J Apartments asking where we were. We’d said we’d arrive on the 9th, but our train was leaving on the 9th and arriving in the morning on the 10th, oops! I think I mucked up the dates because of the late departure and early arrival, which means that now we only have 2 days in Krakow, dang. We’ll have to do some good planning to get to see what we wanted to in the time we have. Anyway, checked through the rest of the itinerary and it all seems OK. Wandered down to McDonalds and bought 3 cappuccinos for 9 zlotys and checked our the tourist information. Decided on checking out the old city this morning and then off to the salt mines for the afternoon. Tomorrow off to Auschwitz and Birkenau and then back to the old town and the Jewish quarter.
The old city looks great with it’s gates and wall and is all decorated with bunting as they had a festival last week celebrating a defeat of the Tartars. Looking forward to poking around a bit further. Finally checked into the apartment and had a freshen up. Damian (our host) was interested in our itinerary and how must it costs for Australians to travel. He knew it took 8 hours to fly from perth to New Zealand! I agreed with him that Europe was easy to get around in and he told us that last weekend he drove through three countries! Well, now off for some adventures...
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Thanks for sharing so much...the pictures are stunning!! Hope the rest of your trip goes really well, will keep on reading to see what comes next :-)
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