Category: Poland

  • The best European castles on Airbnb

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…