****** You all know my blogs can be long winded… but this account is also for Voy and his family who weren't able to make it over for the wedding… so enjoy the details! ****** For those of you who read the blogs about my previous Poland trip, you'll know it was 10 special days for me. Two months ago, I visited Kraków on the recommendation of Voy, a friend from work in Australia. Apart from it being just a truly beautiful and captivating city, one of th...

I'm finding it hard to even start this blog... even though I did decide on DAY 1 of my Kraków trip that I would dedicate a blog entry entirely to the food I ate in Poland. I suppose the idea came from the slightly violent 'I HATE YOU' response I received from my Polish colleague Voy, after I sent a photo of food to him. Indeed, it was his own fault that I was there... he'd insisted on me going there for months that it was somewhere I had to go to while I was i...

So my first proper Polish night out (and I think I'm lucky it was only one big night out as well), consisted of Andy and his fiancé Karolina, their friend Agata, and the couple from Basia's place Matthew and Jihye… the 6 of us hit the €1 vodka bar… HARD! Though we did accompany the amazing alcohol with good Polish food - the dish of the evening though was Tatar - yes, the raw meat dish that we've heard about for years and couldn't stand the thought of...

I enjoy taking people's recommendations on cities to visit, places to eat, bars to drink at, sights to see… but I can't say that any of those recommendations have turned out quite so well as when my colleague Voy told me I had to visit his hometown of Kraków. His recommendation contained a lot of 'It's awesome', 'My friends are awesome - and they'll look after you!' and 'the Vodka is awesome!'… 'Just do some research on what you want to see'! Instead, I ...

Warning: some photos are confronting! I've started this blog about 6 times now… mainly because I feel that I sound heartless when I write about it. Going to a place like Auschwitz I (and Auschwitz II-Birkenau), I personally found it incredibly hard to comprehend almost any number that we were told about. I've spoken to a number of people since visiting it, and have received mixed reactions. Some were crying the whole time, some felt nothing, and others on...