JoeB
25 Aug 2009
Travel / Winter in Poland - but no skiing [8]
Folks - I'd appreciate any suggestions.
I'm off to Krakow with my wife for a wedding just after Christmas and staying until just after the new year. We'd planned to combine it with a skiing trip, but now I'm injured and we won't be able to ski.
Any suggestions for what we might do with the time instead? We already know Krakow really well, having spent a lot of weeks and weekends there over the last couple of years, so I'd like to get out of the city, but from previous experience I know it's going to be pretty cold and dark early every day. I'm also not sure what the state of the roads will be like for driving in the snow off the main routes.
The options that I was thinking of were:
1. A trip into the mountains/countryside to a lodge - perhaps to the Bieszczady? (Not Zakopane though, it's like Piccadilly Circus in rush hour.)
2. Catching the train to Lwow for a couple of days - always fancied going there.
3. Perhaps heading up to Bialystock - I've heard that the national park around there is beautiful in the snow - although it's not really anywhere near Krakow.
Any thoughts on these or other suggestions?
-Joe
Folks - I'd appreciate any suggestions.
I'm off to Krakow with my wife for a wedding just after Christmas and staying until just after the new year. We'd planned to combine it with a skiing trip, but now I'm injured and we won't be able to ski.
Any suggestions for what we might do with the time instead? We already know Krakow really well, having spent a lot of weeks and weekends there over the last couple of years, so I'd like to get out of the city, but from previous experience I know it's going to be pretty cold and dark early every day. I'm also not sure what the state of the roads will be like for driving in the snow off the main routes.
The options that I was thinking of were:
1. A trip into the mountains/countryside to a lodge - perhaps to the Bieszczady? (Not Zakopane though, it's like Piccadilly Circus in rush hour.)
2. Catching the train to Lwow for a couple of days - always fancied going there.
3. Perhaps heading up to Bialystock - I've heard that the national park around there is beautiful in the snow - although it's not really anywhere near Krakow.
Any thoughts on these or other suggestions?
-Joe