Hey everyone! Welcome back to the channel—today’s adventure is a real one. I’m riding my bike from Opolska Street all the way to Bonarka in Kraków for my very first physiotherapy session. Along the way I tackle heavy traffic, narrow bike lanes, unpredictable weather, and even some tricky cutoff cyclists. Will I make my 12 PM appointment in time? And how do you juggle physiotherapy plus a busy workday without taking a full sick leave? Let’s find out.
In this video you’ll discover:
• My full bike commute through the heart of Kraków (Old Town shortcuts, tourists, tram tracks, and pebbled pavements)
• Real talk about living with chronic knee pain—why I’m still cycling and how I manage the discomfort
• Pro tips for balancing physiotherapy appointments with a full-time job
• On-street commentary about driver etiquette (why couriers and taxis often ignore bike lanes)
• Weather quirks in Kraków’s summer—why June can feel way colder than Gdańsk
• A behind-the-scenes look at how supportive workplaces can help you squeeze health appointments into a busy schedule
If you’ve ever cycled through city traffic, dealt with knee pain, or booked medical appointments far from home, you’ll want to hit play. Don’t forget to like, comment your own commuting horror stories, and subscribe for more urban cycling tips, sport recovery hacks, and vlogs from Kraków!
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hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel today it’s a special ride because I’m going to Bonara i am in aka street in Kraov and I’m going all the way to Bonara for physiootherapy session today I start my physio today there is my first session so yeah it’s going to be a funny one because I’m say you may ask like okay but why you are cycling there if you go for physio well I don’t have like such a big damage on my knee i can still cycle but I have like constant pain in my knee hopefully I will make it there at 12:00 i have my appointment at 12:00 and as you can see I got my uh backpack with me because actually I have to to go to work after that so I will go for like I don’t know 40 minutes 1 hour I don’t know how long is this session and then I’ll have to come back and uh go a bit at the office and uh do some uh more work for the rest of the day there i didn’t really wanted to get like a a week off for sick or something so they just said “No problem you can just go few hours and fix this.” So that’s what I’m planning to do actually yeah here we are now i really hate gay drivers and I have my reasons why like You may watch this video and you may be a cat driver but I won’t generalize but there are more and more people which they prove me this like they don’t really give a about the cyclist as you see in Poland look look in front for example this guy is not a cap but look at him the law says very clear you’re supposed to let it uh possibly supposed to leave me enough space to pass on the bike lane but nobody give a to be honest i won’t say all like there are polish people which they respect respect the cyclist they keep the distance they give you priority on the cycle lanes but then is these guys you know probably is a couer or something he’s rushing I I get that you know but still this doesn’t mean why you don’t go with the cars and cross on the red light because you are on the rush right what’s the difference between sitting on the city light where you have a red light and the cars are coming and another intersection cross where actually you have bikes coming you know it’s horrible to be honest like the way how people act here it’s horrible but as I said I won’t general generalize it is mostly for this kind of drivers taxi drivers couriers and so on like not normal people like a normal person which is committing with this car they are quite quite uh respectful when it comes to traffic laws and also like priority for cyclists this is more likely for the for this specific categories let’s say oh I messed it up it’s not this one it’s the next one so I’ll just take a left here as I said a lot of tourists as you can see here that’s the beauty of this city it never sleeps so it’s something happening [Music] unfortunately the weather though is not with us we are in June already in the middle of the June almost and as you can see I’m riding short sleeves but it’s quite chilly so it’s very weird i don’t know guys if that’s like a global thing but you can let me know in the comments if that’s what you experience in your countries at this time i don’t know if it’s a as I said a global thing or it’s just Poland happening in Poland especially in Kraco because we are very close to the mountains so last year I was in three city as you know in Gdanskinia and over there the weather was very different we have like this amazing summer very hot very high temperatures also breeze from the from the sea but here it doesn’t looks that way to be honest it looks like it’s really chilly i can maybe think of maybe at Brashov compared from Romania like Brashov it will be a good um a good um combination if I have to put it that way because in Brashov it’s like mountain area and it’s like always the temperatures are a bit down compared to where I am from Kryova where is like south of the country no mountains just fields and it’s like a totally different climate yeah so I’m kind of stuck in this traffic cuz the drivers they don’t use the right mirror i don’t know why they have it because they don’t use it anyway so if you look at them look at this guy they try like they don’t use the the right mirror at all or I don’t know what they going to they’re thinking about i’m not going to wait to in front in the back of them because I’m not with the car obviously so I can filter traffic our problem is with this drivers but you shouldn’t take the piece i nearly took a photo there to be honest because that’s the tricky part you know and it’s not like I’m terrified or scared about the cars the problem is sometimes you have this pavement which is not really good so they have to give me some gap because sometimes I may risk look if you look on the ground there is this cobblestones come on bro what the is going on with this guy man as I said it’s traffic and that’s the issue here you don’t have the cycle lane there is a bit further but at the moment there’s no cycle lane we share it to the cars and then you get some idiot like this one with the van which doesn’t give a you know so yeah hopefully I will get it there in time [Music] i’m not sure though why the navigation took me on this side and now I’m kind of going around to where I came from more or less i’m a bit confused why the Google Maps took me on this way but we will see in a bit [Music] yeah so straight there’s the Trump and then the car as I said it’s very busy at this time it’s not the best time to commute but I don’t have a choice right because that’s the time when they have the appointment okay so I should go straight i have a bike lane here which is good obviously the Uber driver they never look for cyclist they don’t give a they’re they own the street yeah so here we are next to the Waler I guess i’m not sure if that’s the way or a bit more than Yes i think that is it [Music] so we are looking at 18 minutes the whole trip duration now so I should be able to get there in time i wish I was fully off today guys and I wish I did not have this problem to go to the physio and I could just enjoy like do a normal ride and enjoy exploring the city but it is what it is there you go another guy which is annoyed by this one and people are just stupid literally they just these drivers they paddle you know she well what like 2 m ahead was going to change she still have red light there it’s really stupid how people think like it makes me really think like if there’s something in the header is just empty you know cuz it doesn’t make sense the way how they act it doesn’t make any sense to I totally get it when you are on the highway like here it’s free space I get it you want to go with like 70 80 m per hour whatever is the limit but when is like full traffic is it really matter if you have one car ahead or behind you looking at 1 to 3 hours committing what’s the difference really like 30 seconds will make a huge difference I don’t think so if you want not go fast go by bike or by motorcycle just go for two wheels because you’ll have more flexibility to go through the traffic and filter that but as you can see people they just love the commodity sitting in the cars it doesn’t matter they spend half of the day commuting they still think it’s normal and as you can see they don’t do anything to change that they quite happy to to have this you know if they are in their car they good no but think about how much pollution they cause this because waiting on the city light uh in a long queue with the engine running it’s causing us trouble for the environment and again like you could save that time i don’t know maybe you have a family maybe you have kids a wife a girlfriend or whatsoever maybe you want to learn a new skill and you save that free time you can invest it in your side hustle your passion whatever is is making you happy right i don’t think someone is happy just sitting in the traffic for hours if if that’s okay for you then it’s a sign you are doing something wrong in my opinion but yeah and I get it sometimes you don’t have a choice like it depends if you for example you have kids and you have to pick them up from school and you have a tight schedule like not too much time then that may be the only option for you but again this doesn’t mean in the weekend when you are off when the kids don’t have school you have to choose to go by car again you can take them for a bike ride right help them socialize build some healthy habits the benefits are huge after all you ask me but depends you know i’m an open-minded person and I do understand cycling is my passion this doesn’t mean it’s yours too i mean I’m pretty sure it’s yours too if you watch my channel but in general I mean you know I understand not everyone enjoying this and that’s all right kind of no but it’s just you know multiple benefits if you ask me like you can take multiple boxes with a with just one decision in my opinion [Music] here another office building buildings actually cuz there are more just similar to our offices i still have like 10 minutes [Music] i don’t know what the time is because I’m trying to ride on my watch and as I said slow I feel like maybe got a little bit more deeper but still like it’s very chilly i won’t say this is a summer day for the temperature we like having it looks more like a spring day in June i enjoy cycling and you guys know I cycle on cold weather on rain or snow it doesn’t matter for me but I think today is the perfect day like it’s perfect balance not too hot not too cold a bit uh windy but that’s good so when you cycle you put some effort into beds it feels really refreshing but I think this is going to change very quick so and look at these guys man like literally like on an autopilot she’s on the bike lane she’s looking for the trunk and she just jumped in front of me like [Music] Here [Music] we are [Music] kind of close to our destination i hope you enjoy today ride guys it’s nothing special but probably if you if you’re not from Kov or if you live in Kraov just like me but you didn’t explore this part of the city then feel free to give it a try it’s a solid option I would say but but you need to expect a lot of climbing on this side like look in front like the road is very weird i would say here it’s a lot of up and downs compared to AOSA which is like more flat [Music] i don’t know exactly what this is [Music] another place oh my god the climb the climb guys i don’t know what’s happened with me lately because I have this damage i started really to hate climbing before i remember two years ago in Mania i was intentionally climbing when I had opportunities like this doing like multiple climbs in one climb but now I don’t feel that way anymore oh I’m not sure if I’m on the right but I think I have to go on the right side there’s definitely because here is the art oh look [Music] so I took the wrong way i don’t know what’s wrong with the M today [Music] okay hopefully I can get to I can see the probably here oh my god m hope all right makes sense and there’s Bonarta in front of me i’ve seen it before yes okay so next to Bonara I have to do a right and then we are nearly there [Music] all right so I finished the climbing part hopefully maybe I’ll have a bit more i don’t know the furthest point I’ve been here it’s Valeria Bonara the one you have it in front so I never been on the right side i don’t know how is the rain there is a lake here actually I didn’t saw that last time because I cycled to Bonara here and I got a flat tire another one you remember guys like I went into inside the galleria and when I came outside I saw like my bike had a flat tire so I just inflated and I try to rush to the [Music] to home actually to home to the uh cycling uh shop so I can fix the flat tire because it was exactly on that Friday when it was that massive ride happening so I wanted to to get there quick okay but I’m not sure I’m on the right address though okay guys so I was right in the back on the bona i kind of made it i have like 10 minutes just to lock the bike and get into this floor where I have to see the doctor all good it’s amazing this place i never been here i’ve been just in front of the bona there it’s amazing now I just have to look for the looks building okay that’s just there i think I’ll just go look my bike there and I’m going for the physio that was all probably for today guys thank you for watching and hopefully I will see you on the next
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great to see you and wish you a good recovery with your knee!
Nice vid