On the 14th of April I started my Easter vacation by visiting Poland! I flew in to Warsaw and took a bus to Krakow so I could spend two days there and then two days in Warsaw since I had a week. The bus from the airport to the inner city in Warsaw dropped us off in the middle of old and new Warsaw in my book.
So you come off the bus and see this building, good old fashioned Soviet architecture. Which in all actuality is quite impressive.
Then you turn around and its the 21st century, like Chicago came and plopped down in Poland. It was quite the contrary but its their history. After this bus, I caught the bus from Warsaw to Krakow which took 4 hours but I saw a lot of the countryside.
On the way there we of course passed a McDonalds but their advertising is just hilarious. Any country I've been in, it seems like they honestly think that all we eat is McDonalds. Or McDonalds is using the fact that is American and playing us to be fast food lovers to sell more product. Either way its hard to talk to new people sometimes because once they find out I'm American I always ask if I eat at McDonalds all the time.
This house was funny! Back story - so I was waiting for the bus and this girl comes over (my age) and asks if its the bus to Krakow and I'm like I think so. She had a French accent so I asked where she was from and she was like Paris. So I was like I'm studying in Paris and I'm here on vacation. We spent the next 4 hours talking and just passing the time…all in French! It was great!
Of course I found another Starbucks! This one was in Krakow when I arrived. The bus terminal and train station were all rolled into one like most places but they developed the area into a shopping center. I didn't see much of the city because I wanted to find my hostel and sleep after traveling all day.
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