By David Press on
1/16/2011 3:11 AM
With our journey in Czech Republic sadly over with, we ventured our way via overnight train (thankfully with a bed this time) into Poland. Krakow (pronounced Krakov) was our destination and having heard so much about the place from friends, we were pretty excited.
The city is one of central/eastern Europe's more beautiful cities, largely due to the fact it was largely untouched from the air raids of WW2. Unfortunately the Soviet Union thought it a great idea to industrialise the city in an attempt to remove the threats of uprisings, however that idea failed. The major downside being that the whopping big steel plant resulted in massive pollution and acid rain which wreaked havoc with the old buildings and health of the city's inhabitants. Thankfully that's all in the past and now Krakow is back to...