Hay crisis… No hay trabajo… Así que lo mejor es irse a dar la vuelta al mundo…
Tranquilos, que no soy yo el que se va. Es un gran tío (tocayo mío, además), que conocí en Tokio y que seguro que a los que nos quedamos nos va a permitir viajar un poquito a través de sus excelentes fotografías en su blog. Se va mañana por la mañana, y va a estar tanto como pueda por ahí, pero podéis calcular que tenemos delante nuestra unos 6-8 meses de vuelta por el mundo online. 🙂 Buen viaje, Ignacio. 😉
Kraków, Poland
Last long weekend I went with Nes to Kraków, in Poland. It has been my first time in Poland. Even though I was tempted to go during my Erasmus in Germany, I finally did not cross the border. Now, this trip has shown me a very nice city and an interesting country. Some observations during these days:
- I expected a cheap country, and I found a not-expensive city, but I cannot really say it was cheap. Neither the accomodation, nor the restaurants or the souvenirs, were extremely cheap. They were okay, but they have learned what tourism means, and try to get the maximum profit from it. I guess we cannot blame them in Spain. 😉
- Kraków is probably the city with the biggest density of churches I have seen in my life. A walk in the city center makes you fully agree with those who say Poland is the most catholic country in Europe: the whole city is full of nuns, monks and priests, and together with the huge amount of churches and the statues of Pope John Paul II, gives no room for doubting it.
- Kraków offers lots of things for sightseeing, including a medieval old town, lots of churches, a cathedral, a castle, a nice walk next to a river with forests, a communist town next to one of the biggest steelworks in Europe, a jewish neighbourhood now converted into a fancy area with lots of restaurants and cafeterias at the sun, …
- We got surprised with the high level of English of the young people, in general, and also noticed an interesting similarity with Germany: they love punctuality, and are very serious with it. “We close at 22.00” really means that at 22.00 nobody should be sitting in the restaurant.
- An advantage of having so many churches is that they also use them for concerts. The whole city has offers of concerts of classical music, and we also went to one concert in the darkness of a church. Impressive, even though I was reluctant to attend in the beginning.
- Food-wise, we followed Gololo‘s suggestion of trying Zurek soup in bread, and it was a very good advice. You get a soup with sausages and vegetables in a bread, so you eat the soup together with the bread. A different way of eating soup and yummy!
- By the way, the world is becoming too small… Now, I met two Spaniards I know from Stockholm in the airport. They had a flight 30 minutes earlier than ours in our same gate and had spent the long weekend in the city too. Last time we had met was also in another trip in Sweden, we had not planned together, of course, but happened to be in the same bus… Serendipity?
Hace unas semanas, en uno de mis viajes de Madrid a Levante, cuando me paré a comer en el sitio de siempre, el Marino, en el km 166 (recomendación de mi hermano, y ya un clásico de la A-3 con su horno de leña), vi que los campos de alrededor estaban verdes. No estoy muy acostumbrado a ver los campos cerca de esa carretera con tanto colorido, así que no me pude resistir y saqué unas cuantas fotos de una Castilla La Mancha desconocida para mi: verde.
