Dress-Up. not having 3 different Halloween costumes and a 1000 ideas of what one can possibly do for Halloween this year was honestly strange, and don't even get me started on not carving a pumpkin... but that is beside the point.. the point is i was probably the laziest/easiest costume i have ever been in my life.. i might as well worn a sheet and gone as a ghost, but Natasha and I wanted to do something for Halloween, so you make what you can with 4 hours to prepare!! I found this CouchSurfing Halloween party in Hamburg where everyone was meeting going to a couple pubs then heading to a night club for the Halloween party. So we decieded that was better than going somewhere alone and risking NO ONE being dressed up.. which later i witnessed was probably a good thing because Halloween is not such a popular thing here in Germany. All in all it was a great time but we didn't get home till 7 in the morning so needless to say i was dead!
side note: couch surfing for those of you that dont know is a really cool way to travels and stay with locals in pretty much every city in the world. so the group we were with was people from Germany, Brazil, Spain, Israel and of course a Canadian and a Russian :)
POLAND!
When I first was coming to Germany i said there was 2 places i needed to visit... Prague.. which i was able to check off the list when Kayla came for our gallivanting and the second was Poland.. which after the gallivanting i did not think it would have be possible.. so when Natasha asked me if i would like to go with her i jumped at the opportunity!
We started out our journey Thursday afternoon with a 9 hour train ride to Warsaw. We got in at about a 11 and met up with Maciej (sounds like magic) our host for the night! he was a super nice guy that just moved to Warsaw from Krakow so he was able to give us some pointers for both Warsaw and our next stop Krakow... unfortunately he had to work on Friday but his information did no fail and Natasha and i were able to explore Warsaw alone. Friday afternoon we hopped on another train to Krakow where we met up with Adam our next host (holy good looking!)..we started the evening off by trying Polish beer and cooking him dinner... well i just peeled the potato's Natasha pretty much cooked everything haha. After dinner we went with him to the Jewish quarter and met up with some of his friends and had some drinks from there we walked around to a couple other bars and pubs and got a full evening tour of Krakow at the same time! At about 5:30 in the morning we headed back to his flat, ate a wicked good Kebab and slept for about 2 hours before Natasha and I got up and went to Auschwitz (which i was expecting to just like my first experience with a concentration camp when i went to Dachau but thankfully i held it together a lot better) still a very humbling experience. After we bussed back into the city we went to the castle and got to take nice sunset shots. From there we met up with Adam around 5 for some typical Polish food (pretty damn good) and then more beer, a Russian card game and out we went to some more pubs and bars. Because Natasha and i had to catch the train at 7 in the morning... we decided to skip the sleeping all together... work out pretty well considering we had a long 12 hour train ride... which still went by surprisingly slow even though i slept lots, but you can only sleep so much on a train before you butt goes completely numb. Damn you Harry Potter bus and not being real!
till next time.
xox - B
