Monday, July 19, 2010

Road trip north, part 7

From Slovakia, we drove north to Poland. There was a bit of flooding in the area at the time, but fortunately it wasn't bad enough to block our route.

We stayed in the southern city of Krakow, which is nicely preserved because it was not bombed during World War II.



Rynek Główny is the central square.



There are all kinds of vendor booths in the square's center, including this one selling pierogi.



We visited Krakow's engineering museum, which has an interesting collection of cars, motorcycles, scooters, trucks, trams and buses.



A lot of these models are not seen in the States.



You can sit in the driver's seat of the trams.



We tried to visit Oskar Schindler's factory, famous from the book and movie "Schindler's List." However, the museum is currently undergoing major renovations. We took a picture anyway.



There was a flea market one morning near our hotel. It was completely packed with people despite having few items of apparent interest, to us, anyway.



Krakow is a pleasant city to walk in. We saw plenty of people strolling. During a pause in the park, we saw this young person who seems to prefer driving. Can you blame him with a sweet ride like that?

3 comments:

Wicketywack said...

One of my favorite cities. That's where I proposed to Katie.

peripatetic said...

Hey, I didn't know that! Cool.

Vidi Bonnardeaux said...

you guys are all over the place! love it! no road trips in our immediate future... unfortunately. well, actually, not technically true. we are going to drive small portions of the Great Ocean Rd (from Melbourne to Adelaide) and maybe around Tasmania! All before il bambino number due comes!