Kraków aka: Krakow, Kracow, Cracow

I would definitely be willing to come back to Krakow. What a beautiful city. Make sure to take a golf cart tour around to see everything as a good introduction.

Krakow is romantic and cheap. I love this city, even though it gave me a very non-romantic food poisoning.

So old… Eastern Europe is so different than Western Europe. It has it’s own beauty.

What I hope from Krakow is for it to be everything that Warsaw wasn’t and leave me with a better opinion of Poland.

I never really considered going to Poland, but after a recent trip to the Czech Republic, I was told ‘if you like Prague, you’ll love Krakow’, so naturally it I had to see for myself.

The old town is very compact; the medieval main market square (Rynek Glowny), complete with pigeons, is a hive of activity, and I spent all day just wondering around and enjoying the cafes, restaurants, shops and street performers, and then in the evening just party the night away. There was even a Christmas market what added a nice touch.

All building that surrounds the square tells a fairytale, from the old post office to the most famous restaurant in Krakow Wierzynek that comprised of three houses.

Some of the things to see are: Cloth Hall, this building was originally a covered market with stall and shops selling textiles; now it sells souvenirs whilst upstairs has a museum; the Statue of Adam Michiewicz (a poet) is more of a meeting point however at present it was being renovated; the town hall located inside the tower and at each end churches – St Adalbert Church (a small and oddly shaped) and St Mary’s Church.