September 22, 2014
Another day in Krakow
It was raining hard this morning so we felt glad we didn't have to set out into it and could enjoy another lazy morning. We have planned this last part of the trip and have actually booked accommodation for the next 4 nights as the area we will be in is very rural and has limited accommodation and we really don't fancy the survival blanket.
This has been a lovely interval in Krakow and I really think it is my favourite city in the whole world.
Today we explored more visiting the part that was the Jewish getto, the Florian Gates which were fortifications against a Turkish attack and a very large modern shopping centre. Tonight we ate again in one of the outside restaurants in the Market Square wrapped in the blankets that they provided and listening to the clip clop of the horses as they pulled their immaculate white coaches along. The street musicians were still playing and on the hour the watch tower trumpeter played his bugle call from one of the towers on top of the Basilica. The plaintive tune breaks off in mid stream we are told this is to commemorate the 13th century trumpeter who was shot in the throat while sounding the alarm before the Mongol attach
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