617.5mls the odometer read when we set of at 10:00 when we got onto the autobahn on the sous jets of Berlin the sat nav showed we were to stay on that road for 350mile ! Cammy drove the first section it was a lovely day and roads were excellent we stopped for petrol and something to eat (good old German sausage and mustard ) I stupidly just put in €28.50 as it was pouring real fast and clicked off making me think it was full , I took over the next section of driving heading for the polish border we were looking forward to be border crossing and shouted yeh when we crossed the border , this celebration was very short lived I've never drove on a road like this ! Right from the border for at least 50mile the surface of this road rattled the wee Hyundai to almost death , our wee cars suspension was definitely not designed for a bumpy cracked surface like this , even the noise the car made bumping along this road was deafening , eventually we hit a decent road we let out a cheer to get back on smooth Tarmac and I didn't grudge a single toll after that road , we had 3tolls to Kraków one was 26 zlotys two were 10 thankfully I had brought some polish money I bought from Gary, that saved a bit of stress another fuel stop this time to properly fill up at that point we had done 845miles from home and 51,5lts cost me 265 polish zlotys around £47 at this point cammy took over the driving again he got good roads all the way into Kraków , which was just aswell because it started to snow and the snow was landing we couldn't believe it early October we are well over 1000mile South from home in Scotland , and we are having to drive in snow , the petrol stations in Poland sell a huge selection of tobacco and alcohol and some of them have have machines for checking if you can pass a breathalyser !
The trip meter showed 989mile as we parked in the a dragons underground car park this meant we had drove 371.5 mile from Berlin , it had taken us from 10am and it was now 17:30 so 7.5hrs driving time for a relaxing swim and sauna before going out for dinner , the Sheraton is a lovely hotel it has a roof top terrace bar with lovely views of Kraków castle and the surrounding city , we decided to go up to this bar have a beer and enjoy the view and wifi while I booked a hotel for tomorow night in Budapest , but the terrace bar was shut due to it being covered in snow and freezing cold ! So we had a beer Downstair where a girl was playing a harp for the guests , hotel for tomorow booked time to walk into the centre for a some dinner , it was cold Luddite but Kraków is a beautiful city and the snow on the roof tops enhanced the scene with big clumps of snow smashing to the ground of the church roofs , it's been nearly 9years since I was last in Kraków and it's even more beautiful than I remember it being we walked to the main square and had a beer in a jazz piano bar , the main square of Kraków is supposed to have over 1000 bars in a very small area more bars in that space than anywhere else in the world , we moved on to a sports bar where cammy toot his footy fix and I got the blog done while we waited on our pizza for two to arrive , and what a lovely pizza it was we stopped at one other bar before heading back to the hotel , on the way back a beautiful polish girl tried to get us to go into her club which was all red velvet covers I said to her is that a strip club she said yes , I said this is my son I'm with its no right to take my son into such an establishment she just laughed and said of course you should ! She was that lovely I think cammy agreed with her ! We had a beer in one of the hotel bars that had a pool table and cammy beat his dad at pool for the first time before we went to bed
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