We got up early at 7AM and since breakfast isn't served until 830AM we had our own oatmeal which we packed. Then we had to check out and head off to the train for Poland. The train was only 2 min from where we stayed so we found everything easily. We were then off to Krakow.
This train was 7 hrs and 10 min long. We fell asleep a couple times, took turns reading, and ate our snacks along the journey. We past lots of local, ratty/rundown homes along the line and power plants (utility things) at first then more open fields/farms/ some nicer homes in the distance from the train. Alex said the ride was a little bumpier than U.S. trains (Amtrack). One thing we found out was that there was no outlets on the train to charge anything which was a bummer. They did have a small dining cart which Alex went and got himself some coffee and us water.
We ate our lunch on the train which we got the night before. Alex had a ham sub and I had a chicken on and they were actually pretty darn good for not being refrigerated for 4-5 hours.
At some of the stops police/military would get on the train and walk through the cars--one of the spots in particular a lot of military/police got on and walked through--maybe 8 past us. We are not sure if this was normal protocol or if they were looking for someone because they appeared to be on a mission of some sort. We stayed at that particular spot almost 5 min longer than other stops. People got off and on at every stop and there was probably 10-15 stops along the trip.
Once we got off, we found the next train we needed to be on (we had to go from Katowice, Poland to Krakow, Poland). Katowice is a huge city-lots of stores within the train station, much like an indoor mall with restaurants, fast food, and stores. We boarded that train and were off to Krawkow. This train ride was only 2 hours.
Polish views from this train- more woodsy, more residential, prettier. The train was running very late, about 40 min.  It was beautiful scenery out of the train though-high up so saw Mountains/hills at sunset while riding. We split the 3rd sandwich we bought which was a chicken nugget sub--hahaha!
An interesting thing we heard was the language similarities/differences: Austrian/Slovakian/Hungarian sounds more Italian and Polish sounds more Russian.
Even though it was dark now and the train being late, we still had to find our Airbnb. Once we got off the train it was actually a really easy 10 min walk to the Airbnb. Much bigger of a city, lots of lights, much like NYC but larger streets-lots of billboards/large neon store names. The place we stayed had a nice female owner, we had the whole apartment to ourselves. She showed us the place, gave us keys and showed us how to lock up. She had 3 keys to get in 5 doors---geez, are you sure we are safe here? The first one didnt have a key, but a code to punch in to get in the the main door off the road, because this was a locked building. That next door opened too which 10-12 steps into the first once we used the code for the first door. Then up 4 flights of stairs (which didn't bother me, but Alex disliked a lot). Then there was a door to enter the hallway which we lived in and there was 2 keys for that door, red for top and blue for bottom lock. Then it was finally to the door to the actually apartment and we had a key for that. So explaining all that took some time of course. She left after explaining it all and we went to the nearby grocery to get some things for a late dinner and breakfast tomorrow. We got 6 eggs and a Qt. of milk. It cost only $1.47-what a bargain!! Eggs, which I knew, were not in the fridges but are never refrigerated in other countries. They also get theirs more fresh than Americans do. We paid mostly in Poland with my Mastercard and it was taken everywhere we went except for the small market and random small food stands.
We went back to the apartment, opened all 5 doors as instructed, made some eggs and had some cereal (had cornflakes which was in the kitchen and she told us we could eat it). Then showered and went to bed!