Poland
Poland was part of an Eastern Euro trip I did solo in May this year. Rough route was leipzig-Colditz-Karlovy Vary-Kutna Hora-Wroclow-Krakow-Aushwitz-Ostrava-Trencin..... etc etc
I found Polish roads, traffic, and weather interesting!!
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Typical backroad
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Floods everywhere!!
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This was as close as I could get to Aushwitz... floods closed all access roads!!
Very disappointed to miss Aushwitz as was one of my gotta see highlights... I visited the above mentioned Salt Mines and they are incredible, well worth the effort and only 15mins drive outside Krakow.
I stayed a Q-Bus hotel downtown upon recommendation of this site. Mainly because of underground parking as it was pissing rain constantly... Expensive but worth it(I think!!)
Access to Krakow is realistically only via the main southern route that runs East-West & skirts Katowice, it's tolled once you get close to Krakow and a bit rough as full of mad truckers and is mostly single carraigeway... BTW skip Katowice, I rarely say skip anywhere but seriously there is nothing in Katowice I could find of interest!!
In Krakow check out a an Irish Bar called 'Nic Nowego', not typical Oirish dump but cafe bar and run by very decent Irish bloke who rides a Kawasaki 1400... top bloke and great staff!
On leaving Krakow I headed south west to dodge the floods and passed through industrial southern Poland... very grim industrial nothingness.
I passed into Czech and across border on mountain roads at Makov stopping in Trencin... what a great little spot...
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Road into town, Grand Hotel
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Trencin, Main Square
I can't recommend Slovakia enough, it was the total surprise for me...
Overall would I go to Poland again... Definitely but not with the weather I got.. made the start of the trip grimmer than it should have been.
Drop me a PM if anything needed on accommodation etc
Go well,
J