Krakow - Wsciekly Pies

This was actually one of the highlights of my trip, not so much the drinking of it but the manageing to re-create it in the hostel.

I tried it in a lovely bar called Awara (that looked good, and has some good bands on too by the looks of it) - it made with a shot of good quality vodka, a few glugs of rasberry syrup and then a few splashes of tabasco. The trick is to pour the rasberry slowly down the side of the glass AFTER the vodka. I nailed it in the hostel and we all shared a few shots.

anyways, here what they look like

Krakow - huge walk

After missing the bus out of town decided to head to the castle and have a look around, was quite nice but I wasn't really feeling indoorsy as the sun was shining, so i decided to head to the river and it was totally frozen and beautiful - i did a much larger walk than i had planned as it banks all the way round in quite a big circle.



The castle is actually called Wawel castle, and this pic is not mine - it was covered in snow when i was in there

Krakow

The forecast wheren't good - hovering between -10 and -15 before i got there - but it was pretty much that cold. Lucky there was no wind as such, but a 1 hour wait at the bus stop was a bit of welcome.

Still, made it to Good Bye lenin (34 Grodska) pretty easily, a very welcoming hostel with a great communal area where you've really got no choice to talk to others. The rooms are blasted with heat and really cosy, and they have free coffee and snacks and free internet.

Met a nice guy called Sabine who was in my room, he'd been there for a week and i think he'd began to thing he should have been there for a few days only - not sure its a week place really!

I did plan to Austwitz but it was 2 hours away by public transport, so i can of took the desiscion to just chill in krakow and have a foody drinky walky weekend.

First i took a walk out the jewish area and stumbled on this bar pictured - great place - just needed some tunes and people :-)

Cork - Inchydoney

Only heard of this place cos of a friend at work had rec'd it to my via her irish friend. so took a but to Klonakilty which looked a lovely town as it goes, and it was a pretty nice journey to get there through the countryside.

I liked the way the girl in the Tourist board had no hesitation in saying it was easily walkable, even though it was almost two miles. They'd be directing you to the nearest airport down south. Good on her.

So, It was a fairly long walk to get there, but it was worth it - almost deserted beach when i got there, just a hotel from what i remember - so i scoffed my pre packed picnic and had a seat for a little bit.

The pic is from Klonakilty, would have liked to spend a night there.

Cork - Kinsale

Day 2, and had a look round town, but it seems to me that corks more of a night time place and i was spending my days out in the countryside - so i hopped a bus to Kinsale.

Once there i did a big coastal walk out to a lovely spot seen here:



Looked like some nice sailing here too.

Once back in town i spotted this nice little bar right round the harbour, took a bit of a hike to get there but it was well worth it - once of those tiddly bars where you can only fit one bar man behind it. No draft, just bottles of beers and tons of old spirits - managed to get one of the few seats in the garden with such a lovely view.

The pub was called the spinnaker bar, and id love to go back! Two pics here, one of the view, and one of the pub.

(not sure why the pics have moved up!)

Cork - cobh

Took a flight to cork and checked into a lovely hostel there, think its near the collage, was quite cheap and about a 15 min walk into town.

So dumped my bags and took a little stroll to get my bearings. Id heard there was not many sights to see in cork other than outside the town, and i ended up gravitating towards the train station.

When i got there there was plenty of trains to cobh (pronounced cove), and though the name seemed familiar I wasnt sure why. So i took a punt, jumped on the train and pulled out the guide oob. It was ony then i realised that it was a little tiny port that id read about which just happened to be where the Titanic last sailed from.

So i had a lovely walk round the town, and then ended up watchin Ireland almost beat Italy in a world cup qualifier. Good game as well with the irish scoring first.

Anyway, after a few nice pints I tried to get the train home, which was cancelled, then cancelled, so i went for a few more pints and then finally made it to back to cork.

Not bad for a first afternoon. Good intro