Hello again. I must admit that this year so fare have been really busy. Since my holiday in Poland in July I basically had not even one moment to relax and rest. Work exhausted me physically and mentally. This is the time to charge back my batteries. This time my trip back to Poland is a real killer. I have managed to get pretty cheap flights for about 700 USD out of NYC so including round trip by train there it closed in about 800 USD. Same ticket directly from Washington DC would cost me 1200 USD. This time my trip consisted of few segments: Washington to NYC, NYC to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Warsaw and Warsaw to Krakow. As at the end turned out I was in travel without a sleep for about 30h. This time on my trip to Europe my ticked was provided by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. The whole trip actually passed pretty quick, mostly because I was constantly in motion and there was not much time in between flights so I didn’t felt so tired. Gettin back home to Krakow and trying to stay awake till evening thats where it hit me and I just felt asleep like a baby. In terms on KLM airlines, I think I flew with them once many years ago, it’s an old experience airline and you can notice that also by the planes. I would think that the planes should be pretty new, but unfortunately several years old machines. However I was really positively surprised as cleanliness on board was pretty exemplary. Also meals were pretty tasty, so in general I was pretty happy with my trip. As usual to NYC I took Amtrak train, which is the most convenient way to get there from DC. If you book in advance tickets are only 49 USD one way and it takes only 3,5h to the to the heart of Manhattan. I decided to use LIRR to get from Penn Station to JFK airport, little bit more expensive option from metro but I must say much faster. Metro ticket is around 3 USD with rail it’s 7.5 USD. It takes to get to Manhattan 45 min by Metro and by LIRR only about 20 min and you don’t have to carry heavy luggage down and up the stairs, and as my luggage was at it’s full capacity I did not wanted to do that again. When I get to Warsaw I took Uber to West Rail Station where I got in to „Pedolion” express train to Krakow. I must praise PKP (Polish national railroads) for those trains, trip to Krakow was super fast and very comfortable. Congrats PKP. My stay in Krakow was as always fantastic, great time divided into family and friends since it was short and intense I am sorry all that I couldn’t meet. I must admit it feels like it doesn’t matter how much time I spend in Poland it is never enough. By the way another trip to Poland is coming on October 9th… This time also with my sis and her fiancé we refreshed our apartment, it was little home make over as we accomplished that task in only 72h, effects will be shown in photo gallery bellow. Also weekend back in my hometown seeing family was very good despite some sad circumstances, here send my prays good thoughts and have my fingers crossed really hard! After more than several years for the first time I ate cherries, blueberries, goose berries, black and red currant staring from the trees and bushes… omg that was sooooo good, reminded me tastes of my childhood, something that you never forget. Here it was 2 weeks passed in a snap of the fingers trip back to Warsaw where I stopped for the night in my favorite hotel The Westin Warsaw and next day sadly tri back to USA. This time trip back was not the most pleasant ones I had so far, bad weather in Amsterdam pretty rough landing additional stress and tiredness… no fun at all. Also Boeing 747 landing in JFK was tough, plane hit the runway surprisingly hard… Finally I made it back… time to start my weekend stay in NYC…
