Arriving in Poland

We arrive din Poland on Tuesday night after a long boring train journey. It's strange, I think it makes it more boring having a travel companion. You've got someone to complain too about the boredom. The scenery was unremarkable...... I can't get my photos to upload just now... so this will be a purely textual experience until I do.....We listened to some jimmy Carr Stand up on theiPod. It's hilariously funny, and many people were wondering what type of music we were listening to that could make us snigger so much.

We arrived in Krakow station, weerie and needing a bed for the night. The station was huge and seemed to be one big set of roadworks..... we had already booked a hostel by phone, so set about trekking across the roadworks and trying to make sense of Polish street signs..... The Hostel was nice enough.... very basic, maybe about 3 beds across three dorms.... It was dark by now, and we headeded down to Rynek Glowny - The mian square...... It's huge!!! a huge big square with lots of old impressive buildings, the hugest of which is the Cloth Hall.... It's similar to the Rynek's that I have been to in Warsaw and Poznan... even down to the same chains selling very unpolish food...

OUr first stop is a well deserved beer... it is Okocim....

Having not eaten anything other than munchies and train food for the whole day, we check the lonely planet for some restaurants that are cheap enough for our budget and also serve something a bit more Polish than the Mexican restaurant..... after finding a few closed places, we settle in a little place.... It's very cheap.... so we're not sure of the size of the portions... we wolf down a CHicken Schnitzel and some roast pork in a cumin sauce... very tasty... very hearty.... but not enough.... it will do us for the night though.... we head home for our first night in the hostel.... we finally get to sleep after getting a mattress from the staff because they'd overbooked.....