Krakow, Polonia / Poland

I posted in English and Spanish

Estamos en Polonia! que differencia a los otros lugares donde hemos estado!
Por primera vez entramos a Europa Oriental, un lugar que se parece mas a colombia que a Dinamarca. El hotel, la comida y el trasporte son muchisimo mas baratas por estos lares.
En los lugares previos, la gente hablaba Ingles perfecto. Por aqui, solo la gente joven, tal vez de menos de 25 hablan ingles. Esto ha complicado las cosas un poco para nosotros, pero pues no de a mucho.
Muy cerquita a este lugar, es donde nacio el Papa Juan Pablo segundo... asi que tienen fotos, venden joyas con su imagen, bueno, imaginise si la ciudad solo pudiera se adornada con cosas de la casa de la abuela. jajaja
Esta es una ciudad muy bonita, imaginese un pueblito en colombia, combinado con el siglo 21.

Hoy descubri que el disco duro a donde estoy transfiriendo todas mis fotos se ha danado. Suena horrible cuando lo conecto y pues no funciona. Menos mal al principio de este viaje me hize una promesa, que si se me perdian todas las fotos no importaria por que vine aqui a vivir una experiencia no a recoger recuerdos. De todas maneras... tengo una piedra!! pero bueno... nada que un vodka no pueda arreglar... jajajaj

El jueves en la noche salimos a un bar/disco y pues parece que nadie era de aqui. En esta ciudad hay muchos estudiantes, y parece que muchos son de espana. Los espanoles les encanta viajar, son como una plaga. el lugar donde estbimos tocaron merenge, salsa combinada con techno. Era un chiste pensar que viajamos al otro lado del mundo a encontrar gente que habla mi mismo lenguage y escucha la misma miercoles... De ahora en adelante me opongo a la globalizacion. Si les conte que desayune McDonalds? Horrible... pero todo lo estaban cerrando para habrir para el almuerzo... HRRRR!

Today we are in Krakow, Poland. Our first encounter with Eastern Europe. This place reminds me of Colombia. Chaos in the middle of beauty.
One curios note, is that everytime we come to use the internet google has had its local page. So everything is in Polish or Danish, etc. All the searches seemed to be optimised for that location too.

Yesterday we had pickled herring, yes it tasted as bad as it sounds...lol... I had veal which was amazing, enrique had chicken, which tasted just like something you would order in the states.

I think my next blogg entry will be called... I hate globalization. When we first got here we went to a bar, and they played salsa and merenge mixed with techno... I guess is their own version but still I knew all the lyrics. There are more spaniards around here than I care to see. This is a college town, or maybe a town with a college, there are 150,000 students! Its quite anoying... and today I ate McDonalds for breakfast! Everything else was being changed from breakfast to lunch and we were way to hungry to wait. Looking back, that was a bad choice.

I think I may have lost all my pictures, my harddrive is making a horrible noise. Oh well, I did not come here to be a photographer. Yet, I hope I can fix it in the US. I dont know how I will save my pics while here. I will probably be more selective and shoot in a smaller format.

Today we visited the wall that protected the city from invators. It was impressive, yet there was not an available guide. So, we did not get the most out of our outing. From what we read, the gorvement did not have money to maitain all the walls, so they teared most of them down! wow!

oK, time to go experience Krakow... did you know the bars close at 5am and there is 2 that close at 7am?