A few weeks ago myself and Adam went on a little mid-week break to Krakow. We initially thought Munich and perhaps the Christmas markets there but timings didn't work out since we only had the week at the start of November to go......so much for studying during reading week!!
We left on the Monday with a very early start, needless to say all we were able to do at Gatwick was sit and stare at the planes, no perfume spraying for me! It was worth it though as we were able to be in Krakow before lunch. The usual check in time/ arrival to the hotel imbalance happened and so we decided to leave our bags at the hotel and have a little wander around to kill the 30 minutes before we were allowed to check in. We stayed in the Kazimierz district. Just a little walk down from our hotel was the river, and the whole way along it's banks are really wide footpaths and accompanying cycle paths....amazing. We had thought we could walk all along it until we reached Wawel castle but that was a little bit far. Instead we soaked in the surroundings and took pictures of some unusual things.
Once we managed to check in we left for lunch and then on into the old town. There we say Florian's gate, the Cloth hall among other places. The cloth hall is wonderful at night time all lit up. We were a little early for dinner but found an underground metal bar that was pretty suited to us, full of nooks and crannys for us to explore. Day one was pretty eventful to say the least.
Day two was a day trip to Auschwitz, which I'm not really going to go into but it was worth the trip and definitely somewhere where people should try to see at some stage.
Then sadly it was our last full day in Krakow but we made the most of it. We got up bright and early to try and get some sight seeing done before it rained again. We managed to make it as far as Wawel castle and cathedral before it started to rain. Along the way were some interesting sights. Krakow seems to love it's canal barges turned into restaurants. We decided to have a self guided audio tour of the cathedral. It's a pretty impressive place, and houses one huge bell...Sigismunds bell. As we left the cathedral it decided to once again start raining (but we're used to that nonsense) so we made the most of it and grabbed a pretzel and stood under the umbrella watching people climb up the hill to Wawel castle. Then hot chocolate was needed. One thing about Krakow....their hot chocolate is AMAZING.
We tried to fit in as much as we could so i think we manged to see pretty much most of the sights in the old town, we even managed to fit in some time to see the underground medieval town which is underneath the cloth hall. Sadly neither of us were really impressed with it but still, while in Krakow!!!
This was definitely one of the best little trips I've been on, Krakow has lots to do, see, eat, and drink. I think ill definitely go back. Have you ever been there? What was your favourite bit?
Chloe x
