We arrived in Warsaw late on Wednesday night, and I immediately had a nice feel about the place. Just a couple of small things like meeting a local girl who had just come back from working as a cleaner in Manchester, and then a friendly lady who helped us with directions, meant that things just got of to a good start. We went out for a gorgeous last meal together, and then after seeing the girls off on Thursday morning, I had a welcome chill out day - sli...

Our time in Krakow, for me at least, had everything, despite getting off to one of the worst starts possible. Arriving bleary eyed as usual, we had bought tickets for the tram and genuinely didn't know that we also needed one for our backpacks, but as fate would have it, the inspectors would be on our tram and so we each got fined. He tried to make it out that he was doing us a favour by reducing the fine a bit, but in reality all this meant was that it became ...