Kraków; Wednesday, 31 May, 2006

Following a range of problems (mostly all caused by the pope!) it ended up with me and my friends booked into different hotels, about 250 meters apart on the same road on the outskirts of town, so after a short taxi ride from the airport we split up outside my hotel to check in and dump stuff off.

A little later, we met up again, and after a short attempt to work out how to purchase tickets for the tram we caught one into town, stopping on the edge of the old town for lunch.

From lunch, we walked up the side of the old town to the central station, and more importantly, the tourist information centre, where we purchased Kraków cards for the following three days, and yet more tram tickets to see us through.

We then spent the next two hours or so wandering round the streets of the old town. There is a lot to see in Kraków, around every corner there is another small church or medieval square. The centre of the old town is the massive market square, which dwarfs all other similar places in other cities.

We stopped for a brief beer break just off from the market square before walking round the last part of the old town perimeter to the castle. There we picked up the tram back to the hotel to drop stuff off before heading back out a little later for dinner.