Trip to Auschwitz & Birkenau It was a rainy day.  Rather heavy rain actually.  After breakfast we took the tram and bus to town where we had about five minutes to spare before our bus ride to Auschwitz. The trip took about 1h30 but couldn’t see anything on the outside due to condensation on the […]

Old Town and Wawel Castle This morning started differently, with band music from across the road.  It turned out to be a military band practice for a big event tonight.  Breakfast consisted of a huge cold buffet. We took a tram around 0900 towards Krakow’s Old Town.  We couldn’t find a kiosk nearby and had […]

Visiting Tatra National Park Today we’re doing an excursion from Zakopane to the Tatra National Park, before moving on to Krakow.  Our host dropped us off at the train station around 0900 where we stored our luggage.  We were lucky to get on the bus to Morskie Oko straight away.  The road took us through […]

Moving to Zakopane We woke at 0430 because the sky was bright as, but managed to fall back asleep till 0630.  We ate our simple breakfast and returned the apartment key before taking the tram to Warsaw Centralna.  Unfortunately, we took the tram that made a turn as we got to that part of town.  […]

It was very windy and cloudy when we woke. It made us feel lazy.  After another simple breakfast of muesli and tea, we took the tram and metro to town, using a different route. First stop was the Historical Museum of Warsaw in the old town.  Not all exhibits had captions in English so we […]