Krakow

It's raining in Gdansk so I have a lot of time to catch up. I also missed a train this morning so I'm hanging out with French Canadiens, a couple of Aussies, two Americans, and a kiwi.

Krakow. It's the new Prague. The original Prague is amazing, but the new Prague has less tourists, and the shit weather finally broke. Every day except for one was warm and sunny. The main square in Krakow is the largest in all of europe, measuring in at 200 meters square.

After getting off the train from Budapest, we were shut down when it came to finding a place to stay. Iain, Adrian, and I hooked up with Pete from New Zealand and Elton from Canada and followed them to two hostels - Dizzy Daisy and Bling Bling. Both were full, but the girl at Bling Bling sent us to The Stranger. The first thing I thought about was Dave Chapelle.

Once we got our packs off we took a nap cause sleeping on the train sucks and carrying a thirty pound backpack around for an hour at six in the morning takes a little bit out of you. We woke up from disco naps around noon and went to check out the city.

Krakow survived the bombings of WWII intact so everything has a certain authenticity to it. It's also well maintained and the blue skies and sun added to the amazing scenery. We spent the day just wandering and ended up sitting by Wisla river as the sun went down. We went out for beers and I started to fall asleep the way I do when I have too much beer and went back to the hostel for the night.

The next day we were supposed to go to Auschwitz, but since the FA cup final was to be played between Arsenal and Manchester U we stayed to watch it. Adrian donned his Arsenal jersey and we were on our way to find a pub to watch it. Arsenal won in a shootout and Adrian was ready to celebrate. I was a bit trashed when we left the pub, picked up a kebab on the way back to the new hostel, and checked in to Bling Bling drunk as a skunk, skunk, skunk, skunk.

My stomach was fucked so I went to sleep until about six in the morning until Iain and Adrain came stumbling in with the Swedish girls from our room. The Swedish girls were birds of a different feather and I never got along with them the way the other two did, but if I can't say anything nice about them I won't say anything at all.

Considering Iain and Adiran went to sleep around seven in the morning we missed out on Auschwitz that day as well. Iain and I went to the salt mines instead and Adrain went on his own to figure out his travel plans. We met another Australian couple (Adain and Michelle) and hung out with them for the day.

Sorry I'm losing concentration so more later.