Krakow is a fine city! the old city centre is full of great bars and cobbly streets sort of thing, head for Kazimierz for the Jewish Quarter and some fine restaurants.. it was one of the few cities in Poland not completely trashed during the Second World War, in fact it was hardly touched by bombing.. so it retains its old world character compared to places like Katowice or Warsaw...there are other trips available other then Auschwitz.. though it shouldn't be missed.. take a tour in a Trabant to Nova Huta (i think it was).. our guide took us to a flat he maintains in a 70's communist museum style, then he takes you to the huge new town area of Krakow constructed around the now defunct steelworks, again by the Commies, purely to balance out the historical bits / cathedral with some plain old social engineering.
If you have time hop on a train - and head for the mountains to the south.. oh and yes the castle is a great visit. Krakow was the medieval seat of the Polish Royalty..King Janos Sobieski III, the guy who led a huge army and saved Vienna, at the very last minute literally, as the Turk janissaries had breached the walls of the city in several places, during the Ottoman siege in 1683, i think.. in Austria he's a hero. They have his sword and flags and stuff in the castle.
And the girls aren't anywhere near as chavvy as they are here.
If you have time hop on a train - and head for the mountains to the south.. oh and yes the castle is a great visit. Krakow was the medieval seat of the Polish Royalty..King Janos Sobieski III, the guy who led a huge army and saved Vienna, at the very last minute literally, as the Turk janissaries had breached the walls of the city in several places, during the Ottoman siege in 1683, i think.. in Austria he's a hero. They have his sword and flags and stuff in the castle.
And the girls aren't anywhere near as chavvy as they are here.
