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Published: April 21st 2007
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Me and Alina
Alina from Bucharest As Mona said...Time to write again
There are so many things to say and I don’t know where to start; I think I will make more than one post. So now I am going to talk about Poland, about Krakow and about some people I met there.
Krakow is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen, a city of great and interesting people, and a city where I really felt like home and where I really enjoyed staying. I cannot say I have seen it all but I can say what I think about what I saw.
During the first days I was in the center of the city and the area around. Main market is beautiful and clean, with lots of pigeons. It is crowded of tourists taking pictures and enjoying the nice sun outside, carriages with horses on the street and no car to disturb the silent city that looks like a picture from 1800, just from time to time a car that is responsible with delivery is moving slowly in between all the people that seem to not care about it, and patiently the driver smiles and moves on without even notice that
Me and Alina
Alina from Cluj he was there. In the main square there is a small market where people sell different souvenirs or different articles to promote Poland. For me it looked like the Polish version of the Turkish “bazaar” only at a small scale.
Every where you look there is a dragon, a small toy or a bigger one, on t-shirts, on flags, in the beginning I was wandering what is that dragon and what is its connection with Krakow, after several hours someone explained to me that is the symbol of the town and there is a statue that you can go to and you can see the dragon in action. I went to the statue (a big iron dragon that looks harmless) and I saw the creature in action, I sent an text message at a number that was on the statue and the dragon put fire out of its mouth…interesting way of making tourists spend money. Right at the back of the dragon there is an old castle so I went there to visit. It is one of the places that you really have to see if you are in Krakow, the view is beautiful and the architecture as well. In
Carlos and Maria
at the "sheesha" place the center of the castle there is a market and one of the walls there, is a rock that puts out positive vibes, people say that you feel relaxed if you touch the wall for a longer period of time. For me it was just a state of mind. The interesting part about this market is that even thaw it has to be a square it has five sides and none of them looks like the other, but it gives you the impression that it has only 4 sides and that all of them are similar. I left the castle and went together with Alina, Carlos, Maria and Andreea to eat something at one of the Polish traditional restaurants. Bapchacalina (I hope this is the way you spell it) is a nice restaurant and it has great food, during my staying in Krakow I went there almost every day, just because I enjoyed the food and because it’s one of the cheapest in town, with 4,5 euros you can get more than you can actually eat. Enjoy the pictures with “Zorek” and other traditional foods. The people in Krakow are nice and always ready to help you, most of them
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Trainees in Krakow know English, especially the younger ones and they will try to help you even if they don’t know the language. During the night Krakow is an active city with lots of things to do and it looks so calm and warm, just like you are living in a story. During my staying in Poland I went out to some sheesha places and also some pizza places, a party with AIESEC trainees in town and I can say that the Polish beer is excellent and people know how to have fun, enjoy the pictures. Talking about people I met here, I want to thank all of you guys, Thank you Carlos for having us as guests for so many days, thank you Maria for picking us up from the train station, Thank you Livio for offering me a place to stay in the last night in Krakow, Thanks all the trainees there for taking care of me and I really enjoy your company. (I will come back with an article on AIESEC trainees in Krakow). There are still so many things to say about Krakow, I hope I can upload a huge amount of pictures on this blog because I have
lots of them.
Oh and here is the answer for the previous article.
So, in Poland they have this system where they tell you where you are and how many stations till your destination for each bus in each station. My destination was 5 stops away from the station I was in and I had 7 buses passing by my station. The first thing that crossed my mind was to walk in a random direction and look for another bus stop and see how far it is from my destination. If it was 6 stations away I was walking in the wrong direction, if it was 4 stations away I was walking in the good direction and so on till my destination. The second one was to look for alternative ways of getting there but I tried to talk to 3 persons and they didn’t speak English. I took out off the equation waiting for 90 minutes. When I was just about to walk in a random direction (because there was a traffic circle there with 5 exits and I didn’t know what way to go) 2 polish girls showed up and started crying about not having a
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trainees again bus. The next thing was to ask if they speak English and one if them knew some. I come up with the idea of sharing a cab and they agreed. My luck and strong points were that I had a polish speaker that talked with the taxi driver (because they don’t speak English) and they needed to go in the same direction. When we were in the cab I find out that the one that knew some English has be to Romania and she visited Bucharest and my town Pitesti…and it made me wander for the second time that day “are we all just some small actors in a huge global conspiracy or the world is a small place to live???
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More pix and more comments! And definitely more ix from P0TE^T0 our beloved home town! I miss it sometimes...and I'll come back soon :) Kisses