Early morning depart from Budapest into Slovakia, through the Tatras Mountains of the the Carpathian Range and on into Poland landing in Krakow for the night. The currency in Hungary is the Forint, in Slovakia the Euro, in Poland the Zloty and in the Czech Republic the Kornua or Crown. Hungarians speak Hungarian, Slovakians speak Slovakian, Poles speak Polish and Czechs speak Czech. All speak some Russian, German and English as well. Our guide speaks all of the languages. All so close, but all so different. The big story here is Brexit and it is always eye opening to see that our stories at home do not dominate like I think they do.
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| Lunch at a local brewery in Slovakia. I forgot to ask what the name of the beer was, but it was good. |
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| Route from Budapest to Krakow crosses through Slovakia. 3 borders in one day is cool. |
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| The brewery in the Carpathian Mountains. |
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| Do need to figure out what this says. It was at the church below and I hope I wasn't confessing to something I did not do. |
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| How could I not get a bagel in Krakow where, they claim, bagels were invented. They referred to the bagels we eat at home, and that I love, as soft bagels. |
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| Plaza in Krakow |
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| It is always about the food. We were no strangers to pirogies, but of course these were in the home of pirogies. |
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| Travel crew at dinner in Krakow. |
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| Traveler Casey, who wins the award for best packing. She travels from a tiny carry on. |
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| I have only been in 2 cities on earth without a McD. Krakow is not one of them. |
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| Orava Castle in Slovakia. Cool because it is 800 years old and because it is where they filmed the 1922 Dracula movie Nosferatu. |
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| Main square in Krakow. Very, very, very cool. |
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| Spartan buy perfectly fine tine room accommodations. Keeps the prices reasonable for college students and more than enough for me. |
