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.

EEET2012 – Day 0

This. Is. It.

Now this is not ‘It’, the famous last shows supposed to be presented by Michael Jackson, before he died, this is something way different.

This is the start of the EEET 2012.

What-the-fuck is that, I hear you say?

EEET 2012 stands for: Eastern Europe Eurail Trip 2012.   

Stuff to be packed.

A 27-day trip, on 2 planes, through (at least) 5 countries, (at least) 12 cities, on (at least) 12 trains and without a doubt endless experiences, meetings and stories to be told after this life changing event.  Well, life changing… Will it be? I don’t really know. Let’s be honest here, I’ve already travelled through 21 countries during my 21 years on this planet called Earth. I’ve had plenty of experiences, meetings and story-telling. My goal to visit at least 50 countries before I die is almost in its half. After July 2012, it will actually be over its half. Maybe I should adjust my dream... But let’s just see where we are when we reach 45 countries, right?

Enough said about how fabulous I am, how great my life is and how amazing the people I meet and make friends with are or have been. Let us look at the future... what will tomorrow bring?  No one knows. The only thing I know is that tomorrow, July 3^rd 2012, I’ll be leaving, together with Toon, one of my best friends, and Liesbeth, my girlfriend on a trip to Eastern Europe.  We’ll be going here:

The Trip.

Leaving by Ryanair from Eindhoven (NL) to Gdansk (Poland), heading for the Heineken Open'er Festival, meeting all my Polish Erasmus friends in Warsaw, Poznan –where German Mädchen Anja and Spanish chica  Laura will join us- and Krakow, travelling through the Czech Republic, meeting some of my best Argentinean friends and my German Erasmus roommate in Munich, travelling through Austria and Slovenia before enjoying a last week in Croatia visiting nice cities, beaches and hopefully with the occasional party.

I decided to do this trip after missing a visit to Argentina in January and after failing to find an internship in the United States this semester.  This trip is more or less as well the conclusion of my Bachelor studies of Business management with minor Marketing and Spanish at the Catholic College of Leuven, of which I graduated June 2012.

What’s next? What will the future bring? Where will I end up? Honestly, I don’t really care at the moment. The only thing I am going to do the next few weeks is enjoying my trip, enjoying my companions and trying to discover as many new things as I can: Europe’s biggest wooden pier, the world’s best know concentration camp, Croatia’s most beautiful cities… I’ll enjoy them all in different way.

For my followers or casual readers, I will try to update my blog as often as possible. I don’t know whether I’ll have internet every day, every other day or even once a week. But you may be sure that I’ll write down as much as I can, to keep you updated, to maintain the memories for me and also a bit to make y’all jealous! Haha

Let’s just say it the way it is: IT’S ON!