Good morning Daina,
Once again an excellent trip, the hotel was really lovely, the pick up service airport/hotel/airport also very good, thank you!
I’m sending you a lot of photos this time, do with them what you will.
We walked miles and miles and I think visited every synagogue there was! Krakow is a beautiful place. Auschwitz/Birkenau was incredible, so poignant, and moving, I’m really glad we went ( glad isn’t the correct word but you know what I mean), just an incredible place. It was the highlight of the trip, again probably not the best word but you understand. Our guides were excellent on both the Auschwitz trip and the Salt mines. Saw the castle and the Museum of Jewish History also so basically nearly everything. I’d like to have explored the Old Town a bit more, but we didn’t really have time.
The Old Town and Jewish quarter really interesting, we enjoyed the underground walks around the medieval city under the Sukiennice, it was incredible. We went to Schindler’s factory, also very interesting although more about Krakow and the Jews than Oskar Schindler, but still worth the visit. In the Ghetto we visited a fascinating museum which was in a pharmacy, Tadeusza Pankiewicz’s Pharmacy, which played a big role in the life of the ghetto, and also found some remnants of the original wall built by the Nazis around the ghetto, all very interesting.
It wasn’t too crowded for Easter, really, although Schindler’s factory was a tight squeeze at times with lots of tour parties and school parties, the Salt mines, we saw practically no-one. We ate lovely food, Polish, Israeli, Jewish and my favourite was a small Ukrainian restaurant which we found with home cooking and profits going to Ukraine. Lots of cake and hot chocolate too.
Thank you again and I’m sure I‘ll be in touch again about a new trip!
Best wishes,
Trish