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So now as you can see on the map, we are more south (even though looking at the weather it doesn't seem so) in the wonderful city of Krakow. We are staying at a quite cool hostel located just outside the city wall next to the street "Filipa". Filippa hasn't got over it yet. Something I haven't got over yet is that we slept in a hostel in Warsaw, where the hostel was ultra modern, with a cool interior design, fully equipped, very clean, very safe in a quiet neighbourhood, free internet access, our beds were made, staff was helpful and kind, a real breakfast was included AND we only paid 2,40 euros each for one night. Now isn't that amazing?! I have never experienced such a thing. How can they earn money on that?
Our hostel here in Krakow is situated in an rather nice building and our dorm is situated in an old flat with a beautifully ornamented chimney and wooden floors. In the courtyard there are some exotic birds making lots of noise form their cages and we can hear them when we takea shower, which is quite relaxing actually.
Well, I am not going to bore you more about our hostel experiences or ratings, but I will tell you more about Krakow and Poland. What is striking about Poland (let's say Krakow) is that you have the impression of being in Italy, because of the many catholic churches, and sometimes because of the architecture, and because there are so many nuns and priests walking around the streets. Actually the architecture is quite undescribable, as it seems that polish architecture seems to be a mix of everything between italian, german, russian, hungarian and austrian styles. The medieval setting (the city wall and the sort of cathedral that is on the main square, among the castle and other houses) makes it even more confusing, but neithertheless even more charming and a very popular place for tourists, mainly danes (lots of danish is spoken in the streets)!!
We saw a lot of churches today and there you can clearly notice the russian orthodox influence, which is quite interesting actually, and it's so much fun to walk into a church with Filippa, as she is reading "angels and demons" by Dan Brown, and decrypts the symbols and the latin sayings, or goes "wow" or "that's amazing" once in a while and has to share her amazement by explaining me what it means. As we went to the Synagoge in the southern part of town, Filippa said that if we could read hebraic, it was like decrypting the jews belief, just as she decrypts the catholics belief, guidelines or filosofi, when she decrypts latin in the catholic church. But talking about the synagig, that part of town we went to, is the more creative or artistic quarter of Krakow, where lots of Synagogs are and where the jewish ghetto originally was. It seems that it has been reconstructed or at least, the synagogs are, thanks to private supports coming from old jewish families in the US and the eu, and the city hall of Krakow. We may go back there again, also because we found this ver nice cafe, where we could have some cafe and carot cake for 13 danish crones. Amazing. Heaven on earth.
May write to you late, Filippa just made a wonderful dinner while I was updating our activities..
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