WOW I SUCK! I've been completely and utterly slacking on these blogs, which is unforgivable. I just hope I can remember enough detail from a month ago -- A MONTH! That's how long ago I was in Poland. Crazy!
So I stayed up really late the night before we left for Poland to finish my British Studies paper. It was an intense marathon writing session but it paid off, as I will detail later. So I slept through politics since I was really tired and I hadn't packed yet. Ed was mad, but oh well. He saw me at lunch and glared at me. One of a few drawbacks of living in the same place as your teachers.
So right after lunch Jessica and I grabbed a cab to the train station, hopped on our train to Stansted, and got there in PLENTY of time. Jessica was nervous since she hadn't done any of this before, and I hadn't either, but I ended up taking charge and just pretending like I knew what I was doing. We ate in the airport and found Ryan and Sam, boarded our flight and all was peachy!
We landed in Poland and took a cab to our hostel Can I just say that this hostel was AMAZING!?
It was nicer than our room at Harlaxton for sure. And the people were amazing. We met this drunk guy from Liverpool who sang me High School Musical songs, it was so great. But we were exhausted so after a dinner of Polish chips and a Carlsberg we went to bed.
Next morning was the beginning of a very long, but very awesome day! We woke up early and went to the Wieliczka Salt Mines which was amazing. I saw an entire cathedral carved out of the salt. After that we had lunch then we went to Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was incredibly depressing but I'm so glad I went. Not many people can say they have been to Auschwitz, but now I can, and it made me really proud that my papa and great-uncles fought to liberate the people from the camps.
We didn't get back to the hostel until about 9pm, but Jessica and I had to change hostels so we got our stuff and walked around Krakow looking for it. We found it and once again it was super nice and the people again were AMAZING, we got free hot dogs for dinner and free shots (Polish Mad Dogs, SO GOOD! And I'm not a shot person.) Then we met up with Sam and Ryan back at the old hostel and went to dinner. HOLY LORD IN HEAVEN, THE PIEROGIS! So so so so good.
Can I also mention that the currency, the Polish zloty, has an exchange rate of roughly 1 USD = 3 PLN? So I got a liter beer for 12 PLN which -- yes -- means I got a liter of beer for FOUR DOLLARS. AMAZING.
Then it was back to the hostel for Jessica and I, we got a good night's sleep then in the morning we checked out of our hostel, but they said we could leave our stuff all day since our flight wasn't until later that day. So we roamed around Krakow, went to THE BEST MALL I HAVE EVER SEEN, people-watched a souvenir shopped. It's an amazing city, I loved it so much.
We caught a train to the airport, and camped out for a while because our flight didn't leave until about 10pm. I had a beer before I got on the plane, haha. When we landed in England we got a shuttle to our hotel at Stansted, which was nice, and once again I had a really great night's sleep. The next day we took a bus to London, walked around, went to the British Museum, took a picture at PLATFORM 9 3/4 at King's Cross (!!!), then caught our train back to Grantham and saw our friends Courtney and Mallory coming back from Ireland. That worked out well because then we just split a cab back to the Manor and got back by dinnertime!
POLSKA was fantastic and I would recommend that people go there. It's CHEAP, the people are so nice, the hostels are fantastic, and Krakow is incredible. But there are pigeons everywhere.
Next morning was the beginning of a very long, but very awesome day! We woke up early and went to the Wieliczka Salt Mines which was amazing. I saw an entire cathedral carved out of the salt. After that we had lunch then we went to Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was incredibly depressing but I'm so glad I went. Not many people can say they have been to Auschwitz, but now I can, and it made me really proud that my papa and great-uncles fought to liberate the people from the camps.
We didn't get back to the hostel until about 9pm, but Jessica and I had to change hostels so we got our stuff and walked around Krakow looking for it. We found it and once again it was super nice and the people again were AMAZING, we got free hot dogs for dinner and free shots (Polish Mad Dogs, SO GOOD! And I'm not a shot person.) Then we met up with Sam and Ryan back at the old hostel and went to dinner. HOLY LORD IN HEAVEN, THE PIEROGIS! So so so so good.
Can I also mention that the currency, the Polish zloty, has an exchange rate of roughly 1 USD = 3 PLN? So I got a liter beer for 12 PLN which -- yes -- means I got a liter of beer for FOUR DOLLARS. AMAZING.
Then it was back to the hostel for Jessica and I, we got a good night's sleep then in the morning we checked out of our hostel, but they said we could leave our stuff all day since our flight wasn't until later that day. So we roamed around Krakow, went to THE BEST MALL I HAVE EVER SEEN, people-watched a souvenir shopped. It's an amazing city, I loved it so much.
We caught a train to the airport, and camped out for a while because our flight didn't leave until about 10pm. I had a beer before I got on the plane, haha. When we landed in England we got a shuttle to our hotel at Stansted, which was nice, and once again I had a really great night's sleep. The next day we took a bus to London, walked around, went to the British Museum, took a picture at PLATFORM 9 3/4 at King's Cross (!!!), then caught our train back to Grantham and saw our friends Courtney and Mallory coming back from Ireland. That worked out well because then we just split a cab back to the Manor and got back by dinnertime!
POLSKA was fantastic and I would recommend that people go there. It's CHEAP, the people are so nice, the hostels are fantastic, and Krakow is incredible. But there are pigeons everywhere.
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