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Real Name: Christine
Lives In: Karlsruhe, DE
Member Since: Jan 23, 2002
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The Cloth Hall (Sukiennice): Souvenirs, souvenirs ....
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  • Name of Shop: The Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)

    The Cloth Hall is no longer a cloth hall, but some kind of market hall for souvenirs. To the left and right you have stalls with different arts, crafts and souvenirs, such as amber jewellery, Polish needleworks, T-Shirts, woodwork and more.

    The interior is quite nice with old fashioned lamps and mosaics on the wall. Check it out!



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    Flower market
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  • Krakow - Flower market on Rynek Glowny
  • Flower market on Rynek Glowny
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  • In front of the Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny there is a flower market - and there has been one for centuries (I believe they started in the 18th century, but it could have been even earlier). This is such a wonderful surrounding, so be sure to at least have a look!



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    Cigarets in an advertising column
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  • Krakow - advertising column shop
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  • I do not want to encourage you people to buy cigarets, but we just liked those cigaret shops inside of advertising columns! VERY unusual and the sellers better not be claustrophobic .....



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    Oscypek is cheese....
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  • What To Buy: Oscypek is a special smoked cheese made from sheep's milk, which comes from the Tatra region around Zakopane. You will find mostly elderly women all around Krakow with their baskets full of wonderfully shaped oszypki. The darker the color the more it is smoked.

    Karolina and her family showed us the lady with the very best oscypek and we bought a variety to take home - and boy was that delicious!


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    Theme: Food and Drink
    Directions: there is a pedestrian underpass leading from the old city towards the railway station. There you will find quite a few vendors. Right in the very middle of this underpass there is a stall with cheese and other sheep's products.
    Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscypek
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    ... and bagles are called obwarzanki
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  • All around Krakow you will find these lovely little stands selling Obwarzanki (which is something like a bagle or pretzel). If you read the history of the bagle (see weblink below) you will find out that apparently this kind of bread was invented in Krakow!!!

    Those obwarzanki are covered with either salt, sesame or poppy seeds and usually cost between .70 and 1 zl - and they are delicious!!!



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    Theme: Food and Drink
    Address: all around Krakow
    Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel
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    How sweet!
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  • Krakow - it was delicious ....
  • it was delicious ....
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  • What To Buy: The chocolate and pralines of E. Wedel are famous for their good quality - and boy, they sure are delicious! I was lucky to be given this wonderful box of pralines and we really enjoyed them so much! Thank you so much, Henryk and Renata!


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    Website: http://www.wedel.pl/
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    Comments for tini58de about Krakow
    betako3 Sat Feb 2, 2008 16:47 UTC
     I very much enjoyed your Kraków page and was moved by the story of meeting Karolina. I admire your deeply humanitarian attitude. Best of luck!
    ViajesdelMundo Wed Dec 26, 2007 18:21 UTC
     HI - I am new to VT and see we hve some things in common, my adopted children are in Sri Lanka. I also hve dear German friends in Heidelberg who I met in Macau 20 in 1987; we visit with them in various European locations. We had a week in Krakow in June.
    Aitana Wed Aug 15, 2007 17:35 UTC
     Dear Christine, thankyou for your kind comment. I have visited some of your pages and this is specially nice. It is wonderful to meet people that really cares about others.
    toonsarah Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:34 UTC
     After hearing about your latest trip I just had to come here and find out more - thank you for sharing such an amazing and personal story
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