Bachelor party in Krakow

Igor Budasov
TravelBud
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5 min readJun 8, 2019

My friend Edson is getting married, so it’s time for a bachelor party, before it’s too late! Bachelor partIES in our case, cause we spent 5 days in Krakow.

Krakow is nice, calm and beautiful:

What surprised me most — there are a lot of couples, children, families, just having dinners, walking around, doing their stuff. It’s quite contrasting with Russia and Ukraine — unfortunately, my people don’t have a nice family culture.

Advertisement can be quite weird there

Somehow they managed to make advertisement boards shaped as a massive dicks

The food is in decent slavic/german style

Also there was some sort of carnival with dragons and capoeira folks

One of the best things you can do — to go to a shooting range. It’s cheap, decent choice of weapons and ammos. I’ve newer shot from a decent automatic shotgun, so that was the main point for me there. For shotguns you can choose regular ammo, magnum and extra-magnum. If you shoot regular ones — it’s like you’re shooting a regular hunting gun, nothing special. Magnum — makes a kickback of 10 cm, even though I’m 90 kilos heavy and know how to shoot. Extra-magnum — it hurts. It physically hurts and keep hurting for few more days. Also from one shot it tears the paper aim.

The next this is a Ruger sixshooter from 1970 — manual, magnum ammos, engraving all around the barrel, and also it’s huge

In only one place I’ve seen this sort of architecture before — it was a monastery in Kiev

Then we get to the jewish quarter with some super old buildings ,which haven’t beed renovated for sake of history. Restaurants there serve authentic jewish food, one of the dishes was CYMES. It’s some sort of a stew, but somewhat of precisely and carefully made, I really enjoyed it

Another thing was a MagicPear dessert. It’s something like ice cream, but not cold

But what about the party itself? There are some (not all of them tho) facts:

  • Edson got attacked by nazis but promised to kick their asses if they don’t behave. They did. Edson been drinking on their expense the rest of the night
  • Everyone of us lost something like: a phone, a wallet, an id, etc. — lesson learned, next time I’ll have a special waist bag with me
  • Enormous amount of money have been spent. Lesson learned: if you go to a bachelor party, take a reasonable amount of money with you and leave the rest at home.
  • This is probably all the stories I can tell here.

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Igor Budasov
TravelBud

A traveller. A drinker. A photographer. A blogger. An engineer.