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When I was in Krakow last year, some Brit stags all had T shirts with a photo of the groom-to-be in a racing car, and every single T shirt had:
SIMON IN THE POLE POSITION
which is a joke that's humour content would have evaporated at the t shirt shop door, I'd have thought.
Krakow is brilliant, the people are lovely, the food is hearty and cheap, a beer's two quid even in the main Rynek, I was enjoying a beer there when Kristen Scott Thomas and family sat down! The Cloth Hall is a good museum now, Schindler's factory is also a museum about the occupation of Krakow, it had been empty and derelict for years, the first time I looked round it was just me, the security guard and a cat.
Kazimierz is lovely, just over the new bridge you can get to Podgorze (on the north bank of the river a gay bar has opened which seems to fascinate and repel Krakovians in equal measure) which is up-and-coming, nearby is the old camp and the house where Goth lived and shot prisoners from his balcony, Spielberg filmed there as well (even he wasn't allowed to film in Auschwitz.)
You can visit the Jagiellonian University and see Chopin's piano, but my favourite spot is Massolit books, a brilliant American-run second hand bookshop where you can get lovely muffins and coffee and have a good browse.
http://www.massolit.com/