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As every week Ptasiek invites you to free jam sesion.

Kazimierz, Dajwór 3

Starts 9pm

Each Sunday morning is your chance to check out two of Kraków’s best flea markets, just a few minutes’ walk from the hostel. Visit the stalls around Plac Nowy for clothes, mostly, and go to Hala Targowa for an unclassifyable assortment of objects ranging from baffling crap to actual antiques. Spread out on tables, or on old sheets or blankets on the pavement you might be able to find:

• stacks of old magazines, postcards, and assorted forgotten documents
• vinyl records, cassettes, CDs, DVDs — all of mysterious origin, all old, all well-used
• cute little cups, plates and dishes a grandma would love
• communist and pre-communist memorabilia
• furniture
• religious portraiture
• German porn, slightly used
• cameras, from famed plastic Russian Lomos (cheap and plentiful!) to Zenit (you can hammer in a nail with them they are so solid) to older and more exotic ones
• a set of used false teeth or assorted dental tools
• a bag of rabbits

Good places to bargain, and an a place where you can see things (and people) you will not find anywhere else. If you are looking for one specific thing, you may not find it. But if you are just looking for nothing in particular you will not be disappointed. During the week these places sell fruit and veretables and some other things (underwear, meat, spices, flowers, frozen pierogi, kitchen items, etc.) but the flea markets are only on Sunday morning.

As every week there is an option to spend Saturday night partying in a tram!

This week Latino Party!

Price 29 pln, welcoming drinks included, it’s allowed the take your own refreshments on the board!

Meeting point tram stop on Plac Dominikanski

Starts 8:45 pm

Ask for details at the reception desk!

Each Thursday if we have enough people who are interested we serve a free dinner at our hostel on Sarego street. If you’re staying at the hostel or the private rooms, we encourage you to join. Dinners are always cooked with fresh ingredients from Kraków markets and are almost always vegetarian. Let us know if you’re coming (dinner is served at 20.00) so we can be sure we have enough food for everyone.

photo from Madmolecule on Flickr.

The quiz happens every Thursday at Kraków’s most labyrinthine and well-ventilated Irish Pub. Join the competition for 25 Złoty per team (teams have no more than 5 people each) and do your best to answer 4 rounds of 10 questions on a variety of topics. The winning team gets a lot of free beer, the losing teams get a lifetime of regret. It can be fun, but beware!  Some people take their pub quizzes very seriously. Starts at 21.30 each Thursday.

The Sanghaloka Buddist Centre in Krakow offers an introduction to Buddhist Mediation in Kazimierz every Monday from 7 to 9 pm at Augustianska Str. 4. Each week they alternate between two meditation practices dating back to the time of the Buddha: the mindfulness of breathing and the metta bhavana (development of strong positive emotions towards oneself and others, all beings). All are invited to attend, and a 7 PLN donation is suggested. You can read more about these meditation methods at The Friends of the Western Buddhist and Wildmind Buddhist Mediation.