Lauren meets Poland = Lauren eats Poland.

Very happy in this photo, having consumed twice my body weight in red meat.

I think I am much better suited to Krakow than Paris. In Krakow, everybody smiles all the time despite the bitter cold, there are museums in most buildings, and you can pay about four euros for a giant meal of hearty winter food. My meals in Poland consisted of the following;

Lunch 1: Goulash and pot roast, served with bread and mulled wine
Dinner 1: Face-sized dumplings with beet salad, followed by Polish tiramisu (more cream)
Breakfast 1: Epic, indescribable, FREE smorgasbord in the Hotel Ascot
Lunch 2: Chicken with mushroom cream sauce, followed by an apple torte
Dinner 2: Drinking chocolate and a sundae. Popular Polish cuisine is very sundae-heavy.
Breakfast 2: Epic smorgasbord. Still full from previous day, but powered through.
Lunch 3: Sausages, sauerkraut, and sundae. Point at which I began to fear for my health.
Dinner 3: Occurred only an hour after lunch, but this did not impede the consumption of pork with mushroom sauce, mulled wine, beet salad, a random mango, an Irish coffee, and Polish cheesecake, followed by more Polish cheesecake and some raspberries.
Breakfast 4: Felt like dying, but managed to cram more smorgasbord into self.

The Polish winter is made more-than-tolerable by the food, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The cultural things were pretty great too. Lots of castles.

Phenomenal yellow street.