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Krakow Poland

Continuing our autumn tour of interesting places we have never been to before - which so far has taken in Vilnius and Berlin, this November we find ourselves in Krakow.

 Well, it was ok. Grey, cold, never really light. The city centre is old, well looked after and if your're interested in medieval stuff, probably riveting. But i'm not unfortunately.

 We went Oskar Schindlers factory which was fascinating - it's now a museum dedicated to telling the story of the city and its Jewish population under the Germans in the second war - and had a good walk around, but honestly, unless we missed something, it's probably not a place wed go back to again.

 One huge disappointment for me - considering my interest in all buildings concrete - was that the magnificent  Soviet era Forum hotel has been mostly covered up with a hoarding for mobile phones. So - I took pictures of the bits you can still see and pinched one from the internet to illustrate what it looked like in its heyday.
The magnificent Forum hotel in its heyday

 
The garage under the hotel is now a Porsche/Jaguar dealer
 





















An FSO - the only indiginous car spotted 


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