Eine ‘Britin’ in Irland

Archive for the ‘Poland’


Holidays in Eastern Europe: Relaxation or adventure? Part II - Cracow/Poland

well…I’m back :-) ! Without blablaing too much now I want to get back to our holidays immediately.
The first thing we experienced on our way to Poland was the bus journey from Riga to Warsaw. That was already very adventurous for us though I did expect something even worse. Anyway, our bus set off from Riga at 10pm to arrive in Warsaw at 9am (Polish time - which is equal to German time). That meant we had loads of time on the bus. We were quite reluctant when the bus finally arrived in Riga and we got rid of our luggage in the depths of the vehicle ;-) ! Well, we got on the bus through the door at the rear and tried to find two suitable seats for us…but at some point we realised that maybe we should have entered at the front so that the driver could check our tickets and make a tick on his list - oooops. So, Felix, brave as he is, got up and brought our tickets to the driver…fortunately he was not mad at us - puh :-) ! We were quite lucky that the journey was an over night one so we could at least try to get some sleep while crossing Eastern Europe. Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t a problem for me to sleep there…I mean I had the best shoulder to lean against :-) ! The bus was packed with many strange people…so we had also the possibility to make fun of the others :P !

(more…)