With arrival of Spring to Krakow our hostel is at the height of preparation for bike orientated guests. Both our locations, the hostel on Sarego St. and the Private rooms on Pl. na Groblach acquired couple of old-new bikes.These are Japanese cruisers, brave and adventurous samurais, hopefully without any tendencies to self destruction. Would like to use them? ask at the reception desk.

Probably it’s best to ignore the snoring guy. As long as he is still breathing, there is a good chance that he will move himself in time.

Until then, why not take some free earplugs from the hostel  reception desk?

Here you have the venerable Bialy Jelen, gruff perhaps but refined and capable of great depth.

And here we present for your consideration the super future-fruity SATSUMA from the body shop.

What are YOU cleansing yourself with these days? Did you find it in a basket on a shelf somewhere?

And then? When you finish? Yes . . . time for espresso.

Yes, many human beings here in our fine hostel, in this lovely and historic city of Krakow, are choosing to poison themselves with alcohol. Our humane and hostel expertise, tell us they do it in order to forget their supposed ‘problems,’ in order to summon the confidence to approach a potential sexual partner or in order to ‘relax’.So it goes. Why not try it yourself? It increases boldness, and kill brain cells [proven by science]. Drink alone, or with others gathered in hostel’s common room or kitchen for added enjoyment of confusion.
And here you go a meta-quotation to end up this post:
“Here’s what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.”
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

Our hostel in Kracow, like many hostels, is a good place to find many personal products just lying around, abandoned. Yes many of you -visitors to Krakow and our hostels, left something behind to enhance our enjoyment and confusion. Why, just yesterday I picked up an innocent-looking white tube and used it’s contents to brush my teeth with. Almost immediately I noticed a blandness, a slick viscosity, a strange tingling on my gums. It turns out what I had chosen was DRAPOLENE CREAM, an ointment for treating nappy rash. I did some investigation (maybe it was left behind by my friends who often visit, I thought, who have a small child?) and found to my surprise that this cream was actually carried by someone else to use for facial care. OK, why not? It is good for moisturizing, after all, and contains a gentle antiseptic. So that’s great, I guess. Go ahead and smear it on your face. Whatever works. But I really heavily discourage using it as toothpaste.

Quite often our hostel crew is confronted with question, what to drink in Krakow? Our answer to thirsty travellers is- drink kefir, people! Near the hostel plenty of milk bars or shops (for example Kefirek!) will gladly help you to attain this delicious partly-curdled dairy product.I recently read an article in The New Yorker talking about “alternate food” you might seek out and ingest. Imagine my surprise to find that kefir is one of these new rare and secret discoveries? In Cracow we assure you: this is not the case.

Are you afraid to leave the Hostel? Krakow seems like a wet and forbidding place? Hostel is too packed or too empty for you? Are you preoccupied by the things you did, and the things you didn’t do? Do you feel, like George Orwell’s Winston Smith did, “as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster”? What better cure could there be, I ask you, then a warm cup of tea?

Our Hostel in Krakow boasts guests from many lands . . . now we are proud to accommodate the mist, that contributes a lot the to the relaxed feeling in hostel’s common room.

This Autumn has been warm and cheerful so far — we have avoided the usual Krakow cold, grey and wind. How long will it continue? Ask the mist.

If the fun level in the hostel and beautiful city of Krakow is fluctuating (there are rumors that it dropped to 50% sometime Tuesday night, at least in hostel on Sarego St.) then one possible cure is the lovely Polish cherry vodka called “Wiśniówka.” There are many excellent varieties to choose from available in Cracow shops (“Monopolowy” or “Alkohole”) but the most prized of course remains grandma’s home creation. The first step to acquiring it: have a Polish grandma. Otherwise, just go pretty much anywhere in the city that sells alcohol. Nice with lemon, ice and company.