Up early this morning with a bus to Krakow city centre and then a train out to the Airport. No trip ever goes so smoothly and today was no exception: the ticket machine wouldn't except my card so I was running all over the place trying to buy a ticket from info office! Anyways I made it to the Airport and said goodbye to Krakow. The flight to Moscow was very quick and I was treated to a delicious chicken salad and warm fish and vegetable dish. Arriving to Mosc...

This morning it was still snowing and everything was covered in a bright white. I adventured out into the city to see what the centre of Krakow was like. Unfortunately I don't have the close to handle the cold so I was only able to do short bursts outside and by the time I arrived into the city the snow was melting leaving a black sludgy mud making a walk around the city even more difficult. I visited a few monuments walked around Market Square and wondered aro...

After saying goodbye to Zora I jumped on the bus and headed to Katowice - a Polish city about 100km outside of Krakow. The bus journey was around 6.5 hours and not the most enjoyable. Anyways I reached Katowice to find one there was no one at the bus station and no buses heading to Krakow - amazingly a Polish guy managed to point in the semi right direction and off I walk intermittently asking people with no understanding of my English. Amazingly I found a bus p...

Saturday was to be my only real full day in Bratislava so there wasn't a minute to waste. The first thing we did was go and visit a kind of spiritual place dug out into the basin of a valley where people go and give thanks to the virgen Mary - something quite unique I had never seen before and something that makes you feel inside. Next stop was the famous war monument ontop of the hill - once again a beautiful setting and the perfect place to throw down some han...

Today I headed off to Bratislava - the Capital of Slovakia and once part of Czechoslovakia. I met my host Zora and wow I have met my match with this girl - she is a true traveller in every sense of the word with a year on the road crossing all the continents, living in places I didn't even know existed and ontop of all that time in Africa working with HIV affected kids. The first she did was take me straight to the old city town square where they had the start ...