A Winter Tatra Trip

On Easter Sunday, Lisa and I traveled from Kraków to the town of Zakopane which is directly over the Slovak border, resting right up against the Polish side of the Tatra Mountain chain. Zakopane is a charming mountain town that we had actually visited before—on accident, that is. We once took a bus from northern Slovakia into Poland and hiked through the national park, trying to spot a series of lakes that is apparently very gorgeous. We never found the lakes, though, due to two things. First, the fog was so thick that, had we been in the right place, we would have had no chance of seeing them anyway.

Secondly, we were not in the right place.

At any rate, after the 35 minutes or so that we rushed through Zakopane last time, we knew that it was a place to revisit.