Mon 23 Jan 2006
I’ve spent yesterday with my friends in Berlin. We started with a late brunch at a nearby restaurant/cafe and then wandered around the city mainly by car (it was too cold to walk for more than 5 minutes) seeing places and visiting some other pubs/bars/whatevers. If that’s Berliner’s lifestyle – and my hosts told me it is – then I like it. (more…)
Sat 21 Jan 2006
It has been another long day. Got up at 6:30, boarded first train on 7:50 from Cracow to Warsaw. There was no diner, the conductor said that overnight the heating broke down so there was no point in having it on the train as it would be freezing inside. I suggested they could always sell ice-cream there, everybody in the compartment laughed but I was hungry anyway. (more…)
Sat 21 Jan 2006
On the New Year’s Eve I moved to Cracow. When everybody partied I was on the road in a tiny Nissan Micra (a company pool car I took for this occasion) using a short six hours window between snowstorms to haul my stuff to my newly rented apartment. On the first day of new year 2006, after sleeping off that journey I got out to get some lunch and after walking out from my new home it took me just 10 minutes to get to the Main Square, bustling with life, in the heart of historic old Cracow. I looked around at all the centuries old buildings, at multinational crowd of tourists filling the streets and I was sure it’s worth it. (more…)
Tue 27 Dec 2005
It has been a long day, but in a few moments I would finally get some sleep. Some things did clear up this evening – though not entirely the way I wanted them to it is nevertheless better to know where I stand. I just hope it didn’t show it made me a bit hm… melancholic – let’s put it that way.
With any luck this whole holiday period would be over soon and I would get back to my normal witty, sarcastic, persuasive and organized self.