National Polish Day.
Today we decided to look around Krakow!! A good thing to do seeing we've been here for a week!!!
And in that week we've have had 3 apartments in this week! From the first one being a luxury one with a bath..to the second one having our own kitchen to the one now that has a shared kitchen! Going down in the world..but it got considerably cheaper as we did go down..Poland, we've found, is SO cheap.
Our budget is well under!!!
The market square here is amazing. The biggest in Europe and so exciting. SO much going on...and after seeing the palace....and hanging around in the market square..we realised it was RED BULL AIR SHOW DAY!!!!
So..........what did we do?
Hung off the best spot up in Wawel Hill! For 3 hours!!!!
Here's a pic of the planes. (Thanks Silvia for uploading these from our mobile!)
Pretty cool hey.
Krakow has an beautiful old feeling...and we really felt it today as we strolled..we entered the old town through the Florien Gate and then walked down the main street, filled with national flags and banners..and into the main square...where St Mary's church overlooked the whole square.
There were heaps of jewellery made from Amber, the Polish stone, and i was SO tempted!! The lamp shade made from the amber..was exquisite..oh, i wish i could take that home!!!! (our adage: buy what you carry haunts me!)
The horse drawn carriages were everywhere..and the restaurants (restaurcja) were so colourful and smelt so yummy. We ended up stopping at a place that looked like a beer hall of Germany..and had vodka and red bull!! OF course!! The 'national' drink being vodka!!!!!! ANd because we were at the Air show sponsered by Red Bull (which is produced in Salzburg Austria) it was all half the price!!!!
We had chicken and saurkraut!!!!! Yummy! We were tryinng to get rid of our Zloty! which is the polish money (as we got out our usual and haven't spent hardly anything as we've been eating SOUP!)
Anyway...it was a great day..and a great way to end our stay here in Krakow!
Off to Prague tomorrow!!!!
xxx
