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Regular readers probably know that when it comes to travel, I am the F-man when it comes to Frugal. Grocery stores and public transportation are my best Friends when traveling. I hardly ever meet a restaurant I like and riding in a taxi cab to me is something to be avoided as much as riding…
Bratislava. The name simply sounds foreign and Eastern European to my American ears. The number of times I have had to describe the geographic location for my December trip to Vienna, Austria and from there to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, indicates the general lack of map awareness with my friends and family. Bratislava, Slovakia…
Swiss Airlines drops prices to $300s from mid-September to early December departures for New York JFK $318 or Chicago $372 to Krakow and $401 round trip from either JFK or ORD to Warsaw, Poland. Even lower fares are found through Momondo.com searches. Other Star Alliance airlines like Lufthansa, Austrian and Brussels also have this route…
The best feature of Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre is its location only a couple hundred meters from Old Town Krakow in one direction and less than ten minutes walk to to the trendy café/pub/arts area of Kazimierz, the historic Jewish center of the city. The hotel ranks as #37 of 258 Krakow hotels on…
Krakow, Poland was never on my radar, until about four months ago. I had plenty of preconceptions about a trip to Poland. Gray, third world poverty, monotone buildings and dress, horrible food and an Eastern European culture still trying to shed its Soviet era past. That is so far from the reality of Krakow that…
As I flew over the Baltic Sea from Krakow to Copenhagen, I read a piece in the SAS flight magazine about Krakow having the highest concentration of bars for any major city in the world. Kind of confirms my statement the other day that you can’t walk more than 50 meters without finding another restaurant/pub/garden…
Hard to believe the numbers of the electronic digital scale in my Krakow, Poland hotel bathroom this morning showing my weight has dropped 0.6 kg / 1.3 pounds since arriving almost 72 hours ago. This weight loss is after consuming some 30 beers and six restaurant full hot meals in Europe’s best travel bargain. Krakow…
