The Tourist's Krakow

Trip Start Apr 28, 2010

Trip End Jul 08, 2010

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Hotel Europejski

Flag of Poland Krakow, Southern Poland, Poland
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Our hotel is right next door to Planty Krakowski, the big park which circles the Old Town and meets the river. It's a great place and the locals certainly use it. So much green, so much shade. Lots of paths leading in every direction.

The Old Town itself is quite gorgeous but its very heavily aimed at extracting maximum zloty from your wealthy tourist as painlessly as possible. We liked it a lot but after a while we decided to go to the less glam looking parts of Krakow just for some relief almost from the Theme Park Poland atmosphere. Although the history there is a bit difficult for Aussies to get our heads around. It goes back a very long way. There's a huge network of underground cellars which are now used by the restaurants and night clubs. Almost bigger underground than above.

There'll be a permanent exhibition of "Krakow under the Nazis" from this month. We think it will be in the Schindler factory. If it was open now we'd certainly visit it. A reminder that this part of the world has experienced true horror, still within living memory. A good reminder of how lucky (white) Australians are.

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Knocking out a tune Comments!	Grunwald's Monument	Monument of the poet Bohdan Zaleski	The Barbican Wall
About the Great Square	About the Great Square	About the Great Square	About the Great Square
About the Great Square	Busking in the square	About the Great Square	About the Great Square
About the Great Square	About the Great Square	Parks surround the Old City	On the way to Wawel
The Thief's Tower	The Vasa Gate - 1595 Comments!	Entrance to the cathedral	Wawel Cathedral
Guttering was much more interesting	Bagel Sellers are on every corner	....mmmm	Back to the square
Inside the Cloth Hall	Taxi rank	Policja cruise the streets constantly