EEET2012 – Day 13-14 – End of Poland and trip to Munich (Germany)

I’ve written several blog posts in the past few days, so if you’ve missed out on checking my blog, be sure to scroll down and click on the titles of every post you might’ve missed. I can assure you that the Krakow and most of all the Auschwitz–post are sure worth reading…

When we returned from our trip to the concentration camp, we were all a bit depressed. We finished some administrative work (like checking bills, sharing costs, etc.) and decided that each of us needed some time to rearrange his mind. Everyone got into his own world, some read, others went out for a walk in the city, others slept and of course Facebook was checked by all of us.

We had bought a bottle of wodka and this bottle was actively going around, occasionally being mixed with fake Fanta (0,6€ for 3liter!). Around midnight we all decided we needed to leave the apartment to get some fresh air and we found ourselves in a ‘shotbar’. No, this was not a bar where people were shot (I think), but you could buy ridiculously cheap vodkashots, and cocktails-based-on-vodka-shots there. For €12,5 we got 24 (not kidding you!) shots and the five of us put them down one by one. After some more chatting there, we went back to the apartment and hit the bed. The next day was a big chill-day. The original plan was to go to the Tatra-mountains, but the weather was not good enough for this, so we decided to go to a big hill, next to Krakow and chill out for the afternoon. That’s where I started writing both previous posts.

The view from the afternoon @Krakow - Poland

In the evening, just before midnight, something unexpected happened! All of a sudden Thijs, my ginger buddy from Holland whom I had met in Argentina on the AFS Trip To The North (halfway the post) back in 2009 and whom I had seen only a couple of times since, was in Krakow at the same time as we were! He could stay over as well and he told us all about his roadtrip (Holland-Gdansk-Torun-Krakow-Holland) and we told him all about our EEET2012… Extremely weird but so awesome to meet up with him again in the far south of Poland.

On Monday 16^th of July, day 14 of our EEET2012, the next phase of our trip began. On to Munich, Germany! I know, I know, we were supposed to pass by Brno (Czech Republic) first, but trains don’t always work the way we want them to, so we had to cancel that idea. We went straight to Munich. The train would’ve taken us from Krakow-Berlin and Berlin–Munich, in seventeen hours for +180euros pp. We decided to check the planes: we found one for 137,6€ pp. But wait, don’t you think “Wow nice, by plane from Krakow to Munich, that’s easy! Not so adventurous, but convenient nonetheless.” I can say you: this was probably the most adventurous travelling day, concerning flights, in my life. We did not have a direct flight, neither did we have to change once in some airport. No, dear readers, we had to change TWO (!) times to get to fu*kin’ Munich! And all this in a total of less than 7 hours! Thanks LOT – Polish airlines, even the hostesses at the airports declared us crazy (Katowice is only 81km from Krakow), but hey it’s not my fault that eDreams came up with that as the cheapest option!  Check the map.

We got to Munich around 21hr and, after Toon declared the loss of the rain protector of his backpack, it took us about 1,5hr to get to the centre of Munich, where we were perfectly (read: with a beer) received by my other awesome roommate from Rennes: Sebastian! Munich it is!

PS: pics will follow.

peace out_


Toon&Thibault

Someday we will.