Seventeen hours of travel later and we’ve finally arrived in Kraków! The overnight train wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. First of all we ‘splurged’ and bought a couchette. Secondly, there was no one else in our cabin so we had the whole thing to ourselves. For a night on the train I got a somewhat respectable amount of sleep.
Arriving at the station at seven in the morning both Adam and Karolina were so kind to pick us up and take us to their house! Before went to their place though we went to Anna’s where we were treated to coffee poppy cake for breakfast. We then passed out for the majority of the day once our heads hit the pillow. I suppose my sleep on the train wasn’t as good as I thought it was… Feeling refreshed we all went to the centre of Kraków to meet Frans. Together we all sat on a rooftop cafe where we could see the whole old town city square. The old town square sort of reminds me of Prague since the buildings here are all so detailed, painted different colours and with the same sort of charm. I had the best ice coffee I have ever had in my life at the cafe. It was had caramel, ice cream and cookies! I’d be for sure addicted to coffee back at home if these existed back at home which thankfully they don’t, but I’ll shall have to make up for that loss while I am here! I also had a local draft beer as well, but what is common for them to do here is to add raspberry or ginger to it. I had raspberry where’s Andrea had ginger, I have to say I liked mine better, but Radler is still the winner!
After we all finished up our drinks we went for a short walk around the city square before having dinner. Inside the restaurant there was live music playing. Some songs we thought we recognized but we hummed our own songs along. We all had a great time, we were laughing to much that the other tables kept looking back at us. At least the restaurant staff stuck us at the back of the restaurant. For a typical Polish dinner of course I had to have some true authentic perogies I never have had meat perogies but they were delicious!
Once we finished up with diner we we all went to the other side of the city square where there as a fundraiser concert being held. This looked like a rather big production as there was a full stage, elaborate lighting, cameras, tents for the VIPs and a host for the program who apparently was a very famous Polish actor that now focuses on philanthropy. It was sort of set up like American Idol each child was interviewed about what their illness was and why they loved to sing. Afterwards they sang a solo and then a duet accompanied by famous Polish singers. Thankfully Karolina was able to help us with all of the translating! After the concert finished up we all headed back home and made sure to get a goodnights sleep for our busy day tomorrow with Frans and Anna!