Krakow, I

This weekend we had a great trip to Krakow, Poland. The weather was great, despite the BBC's prediction of snow, rain, and clouds for our entire stay. When our plane was taking off, the pilot said it was snowing, cloudy, and cold, but just before landing he said the weather had improved and was getting sunny. Here are Chris and Eliot posing outside one of the city gates. Most of the city walls were taken down a couple hundred years ago and the wall area and what was the moat became a very nice park that encircles the old city. Some parts of the wall, like this gate, still stand.
Here is St. Mary's church, which dominates Krakow's market square. Every hour, a bugle call filters from the left hand tower to the square.







Bagels are Krakow's street food. Yum! Here a vendor plies his bagel stock in the perimeter park (which is called Planty).
The cloth hall is the other dominating structure on the town square. Once used for (surprise, surprise) trading cloth, it is now a souvenir market where we picked up a couple toys for Eliot and a few painted wooden eggs for me.