The plan was to stay in Krakow for only two nights, but after the first night we realised what an amazing place this is and that another night is required. Krakow has been pretty impressive, it's smaller than Warsaw but has so much to offer. The stereotype of Poland as an eastern european country doesn't count for anything, instead we've found it's one of the friendliest cities with a great atmosphere and cheap cheap prices. The vlog will show just how much you can get for your moneys worth.
As for the first night we found our first pub crawl... which turned out to be a tram crawl... We had a power hour in the first bar with shots and pints getting thrown around for a full 60 minutes. Then we descended onto a two carriage tram which circled Krakow for an hour or two, it had an onboard disco and smoke machine and with 100 people crammed together we all learnt to make some friends. The night ended up back in the same bar but it opened up a club floor upstairs so that we could teach the Polish what real shapes look like.
After the dirtiest of hangovers we simple ate the cheapest Maccies 4 quid for a large meal (best way to gauge the value of the currency). We ended the night by going to Pod beer restaurant, where the portions were huge and the prices outrageously small. Here, we met no other than Tony Soprano ok maybe not actually him but the Canadian version, he was a sight to behold and easily commanded the attention of every single waitress in the house having saluted Carney for his half chicken and Officers platter shout, he bid us fair well to go and sort some business...
Being on the Eurotrip I wasn't really planning on visiting Auschwitz, but since we were so close it had to be done. None of us were really prepared for it, the camp itself was split into three but we were only allowed to visit two. First, we visited the actual camps, Auswitchz-Birkenau itself and the iconic gates where the trains took everyone through, it was a pretty harrowing sight in all fairness to see how vast it was and just what people suffered. The second site itself Auswitchz 1 included the museum which put everything into context. Each building contained a different topic and some of them really hit home of the suffering of those there. We were allowed to enter one of the gas chambers which just gave me the worst chills throughout my body, to see the room where so many people died was just spine chilling, especially to see nail marks on the wall where they had tried to scratch their way out, for me I couldn't stay in there long with the whole silence of the building eating away at me. The worst thing for me personally was seeing the belongings of all those lost piled up, with countless shoes and glasses all on display, even infants clothings stacked so high it's impossible to estimate. Although it was a pretty somber moment it's something that I urge everyone to do in their lifetime to realise some of the worlds atrocities and give us a greater perspective of ourselves considering what those people endured.
Onwards with Eurotrip and we now march back to Berlin for a great return after last years antics. Another sleeper train... with no reservations and a change at 5am, never a dull journey in Eurotrip.
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