POLAND

Poland was one loooooooooooooooooooooooong trip.

Mission 1: Find Jan a girlfriend
Conclusion: FAIL > Polish girls are NOT pretty. seriously, found only 4 in 7 days.
Mission 2: Eat super good and cheap food
Conclusion: PASS > with too colourful flying colours. Totally stuffed myself to death, eating with a Foodie (Ade) and a man (Jan, self explanatory)
Mission 3: Take it easy
Conclusion: Pass > Sit in the park. Sit in the church. Sit in the cafe. Sit in the museum. Sit outside the castle. Sleep on the car. Sleep on the train. Damn slack. :D
Mission 4: Visit churches
Conclusion: Pass with super distinction > Visited so many churches that I think we did AT LEAST 40 churches. In 7 days, that's dammmmmmmn impressive.
Mission 5: Sleep in peace
Conclusion: FAIL > Shit loads of bed bugs. Argh. I need disinfectant please... :S
Mission 6: Get to know a cute Polish boy
Conclusion: Pass la. I think Jan's brother is cute... HAHA... ok Jan cuter... but of course, Isaac's cutest. :D Still, Jan, without you, and with Ade and my non-existent Polish, we will never have made it so far. YOU ARE THE BEST!


Warsaw attractions


Krakow attractions


Kazimiere Dolny: A town in between Warsaw and Krakow


Cafe Camelot. Doodled, drink vodka shots and hot chocolate, chit chatted, played hang man to find out Jan's prediction of our goal in life. Jan says I'll peddle drugs. HAHA. Totally... :D


The highlight of my trip: meeting Jan's family. I LOVE THEM. seriously. best hosts in the world and i had such a great connection with Aunt Helena. Even though she cant speak English. She's so nice!!! Taught Ade and I how to make great Polish food and made my favorite Golabki. And they even gave Ade and I a Polish picture book each! Can I be their God-daughter please?


Pope John Paul II's death Anniversary. He was Polish, and sort of a national leader to the Polish people at a time when they were suppressed by the Communist government. People brought candles to the street named after him. Rows and rows of candles, it was beautiful...


Of course there were sad things as well. Auswichtz - the Nazi's largest concentration camp where out of 3.3 million Jews, 3 million died, where other POWs from other parts of Europe were sent to, and where many died of human experiments, torture, starvation and cruelty. Didnt take photos because we felt it wasnt right to act touristy in such a place of terror. And we also visited the Warsaw Uprising Museum where we had a very interactive tour on how events of rebelling against the Nazis led to the destruction of 80% of Warsaw's architecture, street by street, meticulously bombed. Thankfully they reconstructed most of the important architecture.


nonetheless we still enjoyed ourselves in Poland, stuffing ourselves silly with loads of super-yummy-and-cheap food...


My travel buddies... :D
I'm going to come to Coventry! FB me to discuss about the 1 pound ticket please! :P