The Kraków Main Railway Station is brilliant. I’ve already mentioned that. Free wifi everywhere. Comfortable seats and lots of places to buy food and coffee while you wait.
The trip was to take us just over five hours. We could have taken a bus, but the times were better on the train, and buying the tickets online before we left was so much easier for the train. So pleased I went with the train option.
We were pleasantly surprised when we found our carriage was a First Class one and we had a compartment for six to ourselves for most of the trip. The tickets had cost us $25 each. When we thought about how this compared to a train trip in England, there was no comparison. The trip to get us from Ampthill to Southend-On-Sea for example cost us $75 each, and there definitely was no reserved seating.
The train did not go fast, and this gave us plenty of the Polish countryside and Polish villages and cities to observe. Many of the railway stations we pulled into on our way looked very austere, even derelict. But people got on and off at these stops.
The countryside was pretty depressing for the first few hours, but as we got closer to Wroclaw, it opened up into green fields and neat villages, and reminded me more of what we’d seen before in Germany.
There was no English translation available for stops, and we did not want to miss ours, so we watched the small display screen in our compartment very closely. While we knew where we were going, all the other stops on the screen looked like the worst-ever Scrabble hand with every W, a K, 2 vowels and the rest of the letters being Zs. More Zs than in a regular game by the way.
Jane and Mick's Holiday Adventures 
When you look at it – everything in England is expensive compared to the Continent.
That was another reason we chose to spend only one week there this trip.