How to make pierogi, Poland’s delicious boiled filled dumplings, isn’t as hard as you might think. While it takes time, it’s worth recruiting some helpers and making a big batch. You can freeze bags of pierogi or fry up leftover boiled dumplings the next day. During our time in Kraków, we decided to get pierogi … Read more
‘Firewater’ was what my family called my Russian grandfather’s homemade vodka. It burnt as it slid down the throat, which is why the best way to drink the stuff was to throw back the whole shot glass rather than sip it. Vodka on it’s own is one thing, but vodka and pickles on the side … Read more
For the Kraków edition of our Local Knowledge series, we get Kraków travel tips from a local, Kaska Beaupré, a bartender, journalism student and tour guide with Crazy Guides. Kaska shares local advice you won’t find in travel guidebooks, from things to know about Kraków before you go to the kind of locals you can … Read more
We’d strolled Krakow’s historic centre so many times that it was time to get out of the old town and experience a different side of Krakow in the ‘new’ town, a district established during Poland’s socialist era called Nowa Huta or ‘New Steel Mill’. A Communist tour of Nowa Huta Kraków with Crazy Guides seemed … Read more
There are two markets in Zakopane, a small market of wooden shops in the main pedestrianised street in the heart of the old centre, and another larger market that sprawls along the route to the funicular that goes up to Gubałówka hill. Here are my tips to shopping for Zakopane folkloric souvenirs Most of the … Read more