Some helpful background on this trip. Originally, I had big plans for this time. They consisted of finding a perfect body of water, and then parking myself next to it for about a week. With a margarita or some umbrella drink in hand.
That was the plan. Then everything got interrupted when I was asked (last minute) to go teach in Poland. Well, have you ever researched what there is to do in Poland? There has got to be a lot to do. I'm sure of it. But most of it is drowned out by posts on drinking (a lot) and visiting the former Nazi death camps. This just didn't seem like a reasonable competitor for beach-sand-margarita.
When walking this dilemma through with my friend, Nate, he brought the obvious to my attention. No one said I had to actually vacation in Poland. I just had to teach in Poland. Then he left the exercise of figuring out the right place to adjust to the Polish time zone to the interested listener. (There's only one timezone in Poland, right?)
I built a mind map of all the airline gateways to Krakow, and Milan bubbled up the list. So, here I am until Tuesday. I arrived this morning, and must be doing a pretty good job of adjusting, because I have already been out to Duomo and shopping at Piazza Duomo. God, I love Zara!
Now I have yelped a reasonable pizza place and am going to track down a bottle of local red wine. Then I will sit down, sort through my photos, and make this blog more interesting.
Ciao ciao!
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