Category: Krakow

  • 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…