Country No 4!

Poland! The land of the poles… well only if the poles are tall skinny pine trees or old precarious looking smoke stacks! It’s more like the land of decaying concrete and rusting old factories! Ok, to be honest we have only seen a tiny slither from our train carriage, the scenery is similar to home but its littered with decrepit old factories, pipes, tractors, trains and anything else you can think of that rusts and is industrial! We have both been amazed at the flatness of the country, for hours we did not see a single rise in the landscape on either side of the train which makes that six hour stretch of Poland officially flatter than Belgium, who could boast of peaks at least 15-20 meters high! Being flatter than Belgium is quite something. So apart from the above, other notable observations include the huge vast pine forests (with tall skinny trees) and lots of very crap graffiti (it seems if you stand still for longer than 5 minutes then you get sprayed) All in all the 10 hour journey was very relaxing watching the countryside roll past and catching up with sleep from the last couple of days.
Arriving in Kraks we trekked with our stuff to the hostel (for which we had lost the map… we had a rough idea where it was and luckily we didn’t have to walk up and down too many streets to find it!). The hostel is much better than expected, it’s a huge old Polish flat with big rooms and high ceilings that’s been decked out in Ikea everything. Our dorm has 14 beds in, and luckily we are the only people staying. There is free Internet and huge kitchen we can use which is all good.