We head across Poland from the current capital of Warsaw to the quaint old capital of Krakow! The most budget-friendly option of travel? BUS! Our first time on a bus in Europe turns out to be a great experience, so uncomparable to our experiences in Southeast Asia! Once there, we stumble across the BEST falafel restaurant EVER.
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I was watching a stressful movie and I feel like I was in it.
Same here!
What's up P Nation? We are in Warsaw, Poland and today we're about to get on a bus and go to...
Krakow!
It's going to take about four and a half to five hours to get there by bus.
Apparently it's cheaper to take a bus than it is to train.
Here in Poland that's really different than any place we've ever been in Europe.
That's okay.
Interested to see how the buses work.
Okay, we made it to the bus station. It's really, really big and it has a lot of platforms.
It's not like claustrophobic like we're used to.
Whoa, this is about to be interesting. We just made it to the bus station.
A lot of things going on.
Yeah, we're like literally just having buses anywhere in the bus station and you have to go find it.
Yeah, it's not a certain place.
So here we have like numbered platforms and everything's organized.
This is going to be really nice.
Bus travel in Europe is turning out to be pretty nice so far.
We made it on the bus and it's really, really nice.
And it has everything.
Okay, so we just stopped in what we just drove.
It took us two hours to drive.
But Google Maps said anyways it's 45 minutes.
So I'm thinking that the three hour journey might be like eight hours.
I hope it's not. We'll see.
Just got off the bus and I think Leah's gone to find us a sandwich.
But this place reminds me of the Kansas Turnpike.
Like this rest area looks just like the rest area that my parents stop at every time we go to Minnesota and Kansas.
I'm having this weird deja vu of like American planes with these Polish planes.
Like I don't know what's going on right now.
Finally a...
What are you getting?
Chip sandwich.
Okay, got the sandwiches.
And I just want to say it's so different when we're traveling in Europe because it's so cold compared to Thailand.
We are on a very hot and sweaty bus heading towards Mongolia.
Like normally we get off the bus in Thailand or last time we were on the bus in Southeast Asia was the Philippines.
And you got off the bus and you're like, oh my gosh, I gotta get back on before I start sweating.
And here we're just like gonna have a whole picnic and it's completely different.
I don't know. It's more comfortable.
It's colder out here than it is on the bus.
It is.
Back on the bus with sandwiches. Let's go.
Just like that we made it. We are at the bus station in Krakow.
As Leah said, another day.
Another city.
We gotta find the bus now to our Airbnb and then hopefully check in.
So it turns out there's no great way by public transportation to get to where we're going.
So we're gonna walk. It's gonna take 17 minutes and we get to go through a parking.
I just want to say that bus ride was very interesting.
The driver was like a new bus driver and he definitely...
It was like when you rent a new car for the first time or you're in a new car for the first time and you're like the brakes are really sensitive.
It's true.
I was watching a stressful movie and like I feel like I was in it.
Same here.
I was watching him and it was just like all of a sudden he would brake and I was like what are you doing?
Whatever.
It really is just the smallest room.
There's our bed.
It's so small.
We actually bought a fan and we brought it with us on our bus trip.
So it's here and they have a mosquito net.
Why aren't more people this smart?
We just need a mosquito net to have the windows open so that it can cool in here.
It's not air conditioned.
Okay, we've been in here for about five minutes.
We just checked out where we're gonna go to dinner and what did you find?
We're going to a falafel place.
Even though she's eating a chocolate pretzel right now.
So let's hit the road.
And after all that we just came out the front door.
This place is really big.
You gotta go through like two courtyards to get to the third floor of the second room.
It's crazy.
So cool.
The road was originally brick and then they just paved over it.
So we found a falafel place and it's really cool.
Really eclectic.
Thin forks and knives.
It's gonna be amazing.
That was so good.
There are so many tourists here.
We have not seen this many tourists since Athens.
It's not a bad thing.
It's just interesting that the city is so desirable and Warsaw was not.
Right.
I get that.
We just walked around, I don't know, I think this is like a moat that's been raised and
now it's not low anymore.
Anyways, we're about to go into the old town and this looks like an amazing castle like
the one behind me.
This is gonna be bigger.
I love all the big buildings with this like, I don't even know what to call it.
We called it crowns earlier with just like basically these weird dome shaped things on
top of every spire.
It's really cool.
Alright, and that is it for us for today.
The bus ride was okay.
Took a little bit longer than we thought it would.
But this town is amazing and we are so excited to be here for the next three days.
We just made it out the front door.
Because that means the bus is just normal temperature.
I love not sweating.
Our place for the night.
Just kidding.