Nov 8 Sun - Sosnowiec to Krakow, Poland

November 10, 2026

Nov 8 Sun - Sosnowiec to Krakow, Poland

KRAKOW SQUARE BY MY APT

Well a day and a half to see Krakow and it's Sunday most everything is closed and all closed Monday, so I'll just walk around take some pics.

The trams area great every few minutes if you know which one to take, if not just jump on and look on the map lol... but the old town is the best part and it is large and lots lots of old churches and squares and cool old narrow streets. The university is right here and almost all the old town is surrounded by a nice green walking park with lots of benches and greenery old trees now most all the leaves are down and yellow on the ground.

I happened to be wandering by the big church where the memorial mass was held as it let out big crowd priests and nuns and all sorts of people walking in a procession I guess to the square ? Then I came across the square where all the people were shot YESTERDAY... shrines were set up where they fell and lots of candles and signs and names and people praying and gawking and taking pictures and taking pictures of bullet holes in the wall ? of the store and the shattered boarded up window ? I saw the big crowd there were 6 or so police cars all lights on blocking off the area at night (I saw everything again in the day too when it wasn't cordoned off) and a TV reporter and crowds gawking well it's a lot i mean a lot of tourists here more than anywhere else so far.

So I was finicky about where what to eat after all that meat yesterday I was going to the train station for a salad and veg sandwich then the crowds I passed a traditional polish place and it was cold so a block or so towards the train station I decided let's go back there get some warm soup and food and I did and they had the sour rye bread soup which was really tasty had a couple hard boiled eggs in it and also slices of sausage but they were real thin and not too much. Then the potato pancakes stuffed with spinach and mushrooms and cheese were really great, not like we think of them these were pancakes rolled up and stuff with the goods. The ones like nan used to make are latkes, I always thought that's just the name she used for them but no the latkes are the flat ones crispy on the edges soft in the middle with sour creme and onions. Think they might have been the jewish variant... ?

Anyway once fed I went back to this nice apartment with both a jacuzzi tub, a big one, and a sauna and had the treatments in both and it was then bedtime !