Category: Poland
The best European castles on Airbnb
Sometimes when I’m feeling uninspired (and kind of bougie), I look up interesting places to stay somewhere. Because if you’re spending a night in a medieval castle, does it really matter where it is? So I went on a hunt for some of the best European castles on Airbnb that I might be able to…
Best cabins in Europe on Airbnb
The holidays are here, so there are people everywhere. And nothing makes me fantasize about a secluded cabin in the woods more than busy stores and packed trains. I took to Airbnb to look for a cozy cottage somewhere (anywhere!). Airbnb usually gives the most comprehensive search results when you search by city so open…
The hidden cost of night trains
Though we booked almost everything in advance of our trip to get a better value, all train routes from Krakow to Bratislava were for some reason only available for purchase in person from a train station in Poland, not online. So we had no transportation, but we did have a hotel booked in Bratislava so…
Could I Live Here? Kraków Edition
It only took five minutes for me to completely fall in love with Kraków. Here is why. Safety Kraków is actually not as small as I thought it would be and having walked a whole lot of it over the past couple of days, I can definitely say that it’s hard to find a bad…
Visiting Auschwitz or how to spend and entire day losing faith in humanity
I lived in DC for two years and on my one and only attempt to visit the Holocaust Museum, I left crying before getting to the main exhibit. So I don’t know why I thought I could tour Auschwitz and Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camps, and be fine. There are two ways to visit Auschwitz…
Could I Live Here? Warsaw Edition
There’s something awesome about going to a city with little to no expectations and having the few expectations you do have be wrong. Warsaw was way more upscale than I expected, but is it a place I’d like to live? Here is how Warsaw ranks in some major quality of life categories. Safety Having been in…
