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I hadn’t seen Schindler’s List until a few years ago. I’d heard of the movie of course and echoed the Seinfeld quotes over the years, but I didn’t actually understand the whole thing until relatively recently. It came as a bit of a surprise, therefore, to find that Schindler’s Factory today has very little to [...]

If you’re planning on visiting the Krakow Salt Mines, it’s probably not the best idea to do so with a raging hangover. I was a bad tourist that day. I, and the rest of my friends (all tour guides, I should point out) were exactly the tourists we swear we’ll never be. But, I must [...]

Some of my favourite moments whilst travelling have involved what locals would call the ordinary. I’ve sung J-Pop songs at the baseball in Osaka, congratulated a newly married couple in Tangier and, more recently, drunk gluhwein at the Aachen Christmas Market. Last weekend, I added to the list by checking out the famous Christmas cribs [...]

I suppose you knew this was coming, hey? Poland has never struck me as a foodie destination. In fact, if we didn’t have Ola (yes, of gelato fame) with us in Krakow we would have stumbled our way through the city, spending hours (yes, hours) choosing where to eat and drink. Ola, however, had written [...]