Krakow

Meant to have written this up long ago ... but in May 2005, Paul & Ann fly with Margaret & I, to Warsaw from Manchester early on 13th. We changed in a rainy, rather cold Warsaw to an air screw aircraft for the short hop to Krakow - got there at mid-day. We walked a park into the market square (Rynek Glowny), and had lunch. On the way back to SAS Radisson we booked at a rather promising looking restaurant on the square.


That night we ate in 'Restauracja Wierzynek', overlooking the square - in an old building which boasted of some famous diners. Paul had picked it - looked wonderful, lots of wood etc.

We entered a stone flagged hall which lead to a wooden staircase at the top of which were three or four rooms with old tapestries / oil paintings hanging on stone/brick walls timbered with a light auburn larch wood frame. We stepped down a half floor to wooden platform on which was a beautifully set round table - complete with candelabra and white linen cloth. To our amazement we had a wonderful meal sat in a glorious setting, (perhaps it was the Knight's Hall - a sort of half floor?). The starter I had is still memorable - a sort of cylindrical bread cake roll with smoked salmon as filling cut as a slice through the cylinder and topped with a generous portion of caviar. Wonderful. Full marks Paul.

The next day we got a taxi out to Auschwitz.



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