The entrance of the old town had a barbakan, which was red and very nice. I passed through it and got.to.the main gate to the old town. I found the hostel which was very closed to the main square, just 3mins walk. The hostel polish girl was pretty. I put my beg in the luggage room and got a map from her. First, I joined a free walking tour of old town and met others at the S.t Mary church.
Many people were there and the tour guide was a lady but her English was not as good as the one in Warsaw but still can understand it generally. She gathered us and first talked about the church. A Guy at the highest window played pumplet, which was nice but.had no ending.
It was believed it was used to warn people in town if someone was coming to attack. Then we walked to a university in town and saw something coming out from the little door with music being played. I met a Australian Guy living in perths who was nice but sometimes a bit weird we got inside a exhibition but nth special. We then left to a mini garden near the market, talking about the pope, priest in Poland.
I have no interest in polosh pope, so did not pay much attention. Then, we headed towards the Wawel Castle. I like castle and this one was no exception. We had to walked uphill along the path with red walls next to us showing the name of people who made contribution to the castle.
The castle was beautiful. The guide said the Polish king loved Renaissance in ltaly and then made a copy of it.
And he only had enough money to place gold on the roof of one of them. Then, we walked inside a line of palace where I could see a big open space.
It had 3floor and the third floor was higher than 2rd as he wanted to build a higher window and have more light penetrated into the room. So, the columns were higher that those on 2rd floor. And because of fire, part of the building was reconstructed and so only part of wall painting was found as the rest was burnt. Then we walked to a dragon statue. Dragon was the symbol of Krakow. The dragon was quite small and many kids climbed on it.
I was told that the dragon could release fire but today could not. We dismissed there. I walked up back to the castle. I got inside the church with no ticket. I don't know if I need to buy one or not but no one checked at that time. The church was quite large and quite grand. I got out and bought two cups made in poland for mum and sis.
Then, I took a Polaroid there and rushed back to the main square to join the Jewish tour. We walked to the Jewish quarter. The guide's English was quite hard to hear. He spoke fast but no very clear and with his ascent. The weird and crazy Australian guy were there too. We walked to some places I forgot as I could not catch what he said. Then, we crossed a nice bridge and again many padlocks were locked there.
We stopped at a former hospital for Jews. I was told that Nazi would kill those alive there. We then walked to a place where had a lot of chairs standing there.
It was a place to commemorate the dead Jews. It was like the Holocaust in Berlin but this time was chairs. Then we walked to Schiller Factory where Schiller employed Jews to work here and try to save them. As it was already closed. I did nit get inside and out tour also dismissed there.
I walked back to the square with the Australian guy. He was crazily funny LOL. We said goodbye at some point as I went to buy a pizza to eat cuz I did not have time for lunch. It was quite good!
I walked back to the square and back to hostel. Saw those messy London boys. Then, I walked to square to buy things to drink. The night was very nice. There were people having performance at the square.
And I found there was a mini red light district. But no girls at the window. Perhaps was a night club. I went back to hostel and slept early. what a tiring day.
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