Perogi e snow -- Poland Day One of Eight

I'm leaving on a jet-plane...

It is the day after Christmas, and I need to get out of the city. Thank God for Poland. Christmas was great -- but you know it is just not the same without snow. Poland holds the promise of snow. So hope a plane at Leonardo Da'Vinci International Airport, and of we go -- all seven of us.



This will be my last view of Italy for the next eight days. It looks beautiful and majestic.

We have a little lay-over in Munich. By far the nicest airport I have ever been in. A little lunch at a German fast-food resturant, and we are good to go for our last leg of the journey (caption starting with me and going clockwise: Me, Aaron Johanneck, Matt Libra, Bill Ruelle, and Phillip Zubrod).

First surprise in Poland: Hotel Atlantis is not a hotel at all, instead it is Hostel Atlantis. I have always been told that it is a good experience to stay in a hostel, but when you don't expect it, it surprises you at first. It was actually a decent place to stay, plus it was close to the historic heart of Krakow.

Some of the guys though had the benefit of a nice priory guesthouse. This truly served as our homebase. This is a picture of their lower church underneath their refractory (dining room). Catholics have been worshipping in this room for just over eight-hundred years.