Tag Archives: Krakow

Krakow – Free Beer

Krakow - Free Beer

Krakow – Free Beer

I wish I could have read Polish and figured out where to go for the Free Beer. I followed this guy around for a while, but I never could figure out where to get the free Beer.

Krakow – Busy Old Town Street

Krakow - Busy Old Town Street

Krakow – Busy Old Town Street

There were hundreds, if not thousands of people on the streets of the Old Town. This shouldn’t have surprised me. After all, the city does have a population of 750K+. I came to believe that all those tourists on the streets of the Old Town weren’t really tourists at all, they were just locals who didn’t want to go home and had nowhere else to go. Significance? Lifestyle. People who live in foreign countries have a different lifestyle than we do in American and I don’t think you can really get a good handle on that concept until you’ve spent some time there. Europeans, in particular, have a lifestyle I find enchanting. They walk more and have great public transportation systems. Their city centers are more conducive to an urban lifestyle that is more casual than the American lifestyle. I could go on and on. Would I want to live there? No, my family and closest friends are in America. But I do enjoy living overseas for short periods of time.

Krakow – Salt Mine Chapel

Krakow - Salt Mine Chapel

Krakow – Salt Mine Chapel

The Salt Mine Tour was a wonderful experience. I went 400 feet underground and walked almost over a mile of the 180 miles of tunnels in the mine. From what I understand the mine goes down into the ground over a mile deep and was in continuous operation for over 700 years.

Krakow – Street Musicians

Krakow - Street Musicians

Krakow – Street Musicians

There are street people everywhere in Krakow. Musicians, touts, beggers, the lcoal alchoholic transients, you name it, they’ve got it. Sometimes it was good and sometimes it wasn’t so good. It was always interesting.

Krakow – Nice House

Krakow - Nice House

Krakow – Nice House

I’m still not sure why I took this picture. I was just really taken by this house located in the Old Jewish Quarter. It was small and looked really old. One fo the biggest problems with digital cameras is the marginal cost of each picture.