Katowice Trip – Katowice to Krakow and Coming Home
I have something of a backlog of posts, once again, and I still haven’t excited and delighted my two loyal blog readers about my trip to Belfast, let alone the group trip to Tallinn last week. So, I’ll speed things up somewhat. And, not wishing to panic my collection of readers, but there will be a lot of posts about Tallinn.
I left the hotel early to get the train from Katowice railway station. I’ve written about this many times before, so I needn’t dwell.
Mine was the 09:38 service to Krakow.
A beautiful train, marking 20 years since Poland joined the European Union. It wasn’t though the train that I’d be going on.
A view of the railway station, something I had time to do as my train was running ten minutes late. I didn’t understand the station announcement, but I knew the train must have been delayed as there were some sighs and annoyed faces when the Polish announcement was being made.
Here we go, the arrival of the train!
I’ve edited out the passenger, but I loved the cat who was very well behaved and kept poking her head out to see what was happening. I had a reserved seat, something which works on Polish trains in a way that it completely fails on British trains.
Safely into Krakow.
The main square. I’ve explored Krakow many times before and I only had an hour here so I decided not to do anything too fancy. I was flying back from Krakow rather than Katowice as it was much cheaper.
Back at the railway station after my perambulation around the city centre. It was a little early for a beer (beers early in the day are only allowed on trains and in airports, that’s the rule I’ve set myself), so I thought a nice walk around Krakow would be in order.
And safely at Krakow Airport after a short train journey. I had bought a train ticket on-line, one elderly English couple were cut some slack by the ticket inspectors and they sold them a ticket even though they could have fined the pair.
There we go, a short and sweet post. “Brevity is the soul of wit” as Shakespeare said…..