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While search for flights from New York to Krakow for my parents, I came across this gem: Finnair, $1203, total time: 66h 30m New York -> Boston, followed by a 21h 30m layover Boston -> Heathrow, followed by an 11h layover Heathrow -> Helsinki, followed by 21h layover. Helsinki -> Krakow. For $80 more, you [...]

If you keep driving south in Morocco, eventually you run into the Sahara. And if you drive to the very end of the road in the Sahara, you end up in a town called M’hamid, near the Algerian border, where the road literally runs into the desert and ends there. It’s a relatively remote (although [...]

Since I’ve been back, it’s been almost balmy, and the snow is all but gone! I seem to have left it all on the East Coast… Ah well, I’m still hoping to get some skiing in soon (although it appears to be above freezing in Zakopane, which does not bode well…).

It’s been snowing here since November (and it is, in fact, snowing as I write this…), and if you know anything about me, you’ll know that I love snow, so I’m especially happy about that. Here are some pictures that I took around Krakow on December 16 (the Planty and the Rynek, mainly).

My family travelled abroad quite frequently when I was growing up, and so I figured that I wouldn’t really experience any culture shock when I moved to Poland. For the most part, this has been true. Thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of globalisation, Poland has acquired many similarities to [...]

Somehow, my 3 bags + guitar and I managed to get to Krakow without anything getting lost. Unfortunately, for some reason, I thought that the dorm supplied linens. This turned out to be false. So, I dragged my jet-lagged self out to Ikea on public transportation. This may not have been particularly adventurous of me, [...]

This is a continuation of my previous post, Q&A, Part 1, in which I answered questions that people usually ask when they hear that I will be spending the next year or so pursuing my MA in Central and Eastern European Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The remaining questions are: “Why Poland?” “Why [...]