Kraków: Old haunts

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After a visit to café Larousse, our day was broken with a lengthy trip to a bank of the edge of town, just to close an account that I had held - banking moves slowly still in Poland and you get charged for the privilege of keeping your money there. We had some fun riding out on the tram, walking over a bridge and down, catching the wrong bus to take us back past the tram stop and beyond! I think I turned the air blue at that point.

Then we made a nostalgic trip through Podgórze, out the south bank of the river before heading in to town again. We walked along ul. Zamojskiego where we used to live before going round Podgórze park. Our old local cinema, the "Wrzos" cinema, had some good stuff on, we noted. Our favourite pizzeria in Podgórze had disappeared, so we headed into Kazimerz, the old Jewish quarter where we found one straight away. We also found that Kazimierz has become “trendy”, as Dagmara had told us - lots of bars and cafés had opened up on the last few years. We visited Café Ariel which wasn’t - it has moved next door and realised we were amongst those who had jetted in for a few days. The smoky atmosphere has somewhat changed, there is a bit more glitz than there used to be in Kazimierz.

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Photos

Café Larousse, Old Town, Kraków
This café has not changed its interior in 100 years. Though it is very small, it's worth a visit for a (flavoured) coffee and a cake.

Kazimierz
Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter of Kraków. Now trendy.