A train journey like in Germany in the old days. The trains are fast enough, but not error-prone, high-tech machines. You get there, and are even on time. It takes two and a half hours from Krakow to Warsaw. The land that passes by the window is wide and flat. The American historian Timothy Snyder […]
Schlagwort: Poland
Romantic Krakow
The first morning in Krakow. Outside, right outside my window, the traffic rushes along a four-lane road, Aleja Juliasza Slovackiego, which is named after an important Polish romantic writer, as Wikipedia tells me. I slept badly. When I open the window, damp cold creeps into my pyjamas. I put my down jacket and sweatpants on […]