Kraków, Poland

Kraków, Poland

Kraków is Poland’s most cosmopolitan and best preserved city. It survived World War II unscathed, which is miraculous considering the destruction that befell the rest of Poland. The city boasts a wealth of churches, baroque architecture and of course a medieval...
Market Square, Kraków, Poland

Market Square, Kraków, Poland

The Eastern European country of Poland was largely used as a battleground during World War II when the majority of its cities were reduced to ruin. The only exception to this is Kraków, the country’s cosmopolitan second city & definitely its best preserved...
Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw, Poland

Arriving this morning in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, off the overnight bus from Vilnius in Lithuania was interesting. It was 7 a.m. and still pitch dark in the shady area of the city’s outskirts I found myself. Nowhere seemed open, only the bus...
Old Town, Warsaw, Poland

Old Town, Warsaw, Poland

The Eastern European city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is not a city renowned for tourism. For the most part it’s a vast, drab place with long streets full of uninspiring communist-era grey & boxy concrete (blame the Soviets). But it does have one gem...

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