Traveling is a thing included and a must while you are doing your erasmus, doesn't matter where you are or for how long, you will end up travelling at least once. My erasmus, in terms of travelling, consist of two main trips: Poland and Amsterdam.
A personal recomendation that I give you as a reader is, if you are going on erasmus and you do not travel to a place because of the money, don't because this is a once in a lifetime and you know that famous quote that says: "you regret the things you didn't do more than the things you did", so don't thing and live.
They day had arrived it was October 9th and 4 portuguese guys, a spanish and I were heading towards Poland. We arrived in Krakow there after a fast hour something flight from Denmark. But there was still a 3 hour train travel waiting for us as we had decided to spend two days in the capital city of the country: Warsaw, which was a really good chocie.
We had rented a flat for two nights, so as soon as we got installed we decided to meet up with a portugese friend of them so he could show us around a bit. It was pretty late so we went to the search of a resturant with traditional dishes We ended up eating Pierogi in a small but really nice resturant in the old town of Warsaw. After dinner, we went home, had a few bears and decided to rest as the tomorrow was expected to be a long day...
Here is the recepie of the pierogi for who might be intrested in it: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pierogi-polish-dumplings/
We woke up early in the morning in order to visit as many things we could in one day, and we sure did. The good thing about Warsaw is that it is really easy to travel free on the urban buses as they are always full and nobody is watching and that allowed us to travel pretty much around the city at the moments we was tired or just were to far away from a place to walk.
View on our back from the centre of Warsaw showing the palace of culture and science the highest building of the city
The night had arrived and we went out partying in a club called the park, in which they had a erasmus party(perfect for us), but what we just found there was spanish, portugese and polish people. It is said that Poland is one of the most visited erasmus destination from people of our countries and in that party we could really notice that, still though it was a really great party.
The day after it was october the 11th and 5 days in Krakow were waiting. We arrived and met up with a French friend who was waiting for us there. In Krakow I can not actually remember everything we saw or did but some of the sights we saw includes: Main Market Square with St Mary's Basilica and the Sukiennice Cloth Hall, the Wawel Castle, also we went out of the city to visit first the old concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau and the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
I have to say though, Poland is really a country that surprised me, all in good aspects. It is cheap, friendly really beautiful and its food is delicious. I had not even had a thought about going there before me erasmus and now it is really a country I wouldn't mind at all visiting again.
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