Krakow and the Wieliczka Salt Mines

The plane—Ryanair, unfortunately—landed well after dark. My brother and I quickly extracted some złoty from an ATM and then got into a taxi. The driver was a friend of our Airbnb host. Quite polite and charming, he asked us about where we were from, and a halting conversation began.

“Man, it’s really cold,” I observed, lamely, during a lull.

“Yes,” he said in his thick accent. “In Poland, we have winter.”

Indeed, he was right: it was winter. In fact, this was the last weekend of Februar...

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Published on February 24, 2022 01:33
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