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Kraków
Dec 19, 2019 20:17:02 GMT
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Post by juju on Dec 19, 2019 20:17:02 GMT
I’m in Kraków, visiting my son who has been living here. Impressions so far: great atmosphere, lovely public spaces, cheap, appalling air quality.
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Kraków
Dec 19, 2019 21:12:40 GMT
Post by Moose on Dec 19, 2019 21:12:40 GMT
My sister was there last week
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Kraków
Dec 19, 2019 22:41:06 GMT
Post by Kye on Dec 19, 2019 22:41:06 GMT
When I was there, I remember being absolutely terrified to go to a restaurant because I had no idea what to order. Polish is so different from English or French I had no idea. And no one spoke English... I ended up going to a Kentucky Fried Chicken place (gulp) in a food court where I could at least point to what I wanted.
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Kraków
Dec 20, 2019 0:35:21 GMT
Post by tangent on Dec 20, 2019 0:35:21 GMT
In a situation like that, I'd want to try Google Translate with the speech option.
ETA: I've just tried it now, translating from French into English. You bring up Google Translate, press the microphone, speak into the mobile and then press the speaker. Both French into English and English into French. Pat was watching me and said that it was impressive. "What is more impressive," I said, "was that I was speaking into my mobile in French and it understood me!"
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Kraków
Dec 20, 2019 2:18:05 GMT
Post by Kye on Dec 20, 2019 2:18:05 GMT
I was in Krakov quite a few years ago and Google Translate wasn't what it is now!
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Kraków
Dec 20, 2019 7:20:06 GMT
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Post by juju on Dec 20, 2019 7:20:06 GMT
I’m lucky that my son speaks Polish. 😊
Having said that, he’s busy most of today so we’re going to attempt to get a tram to the Jewish Quarter without him (he’s meeting us later) - fingers crossed we get there!
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Kraków
Dec 20, 2019 7:46:58 GMT
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Post by Mari on Dec 20, 2019 7:46:58 GMT
I'm sure it'll be fine. And if not, you'll have explored a different part of the city. Any plans of meeting up with Genie?
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Kraków
Dec 20, 2019 15:44:00 GMT
Post by JoeP on Dec 20, 2019 15:44:00 GMT
Sounds like fun!
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Kraków
Dec 20, 2019 19:43:12 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Dec 20, 2019 19:43:12 GMT
I quite enjoyed Krakow. I remember having little in the way of language issues, as somebody usually spoke borked Anglish.
I went to the Jewish Quarter, to the Schindler factory, to the Salt Mines, and to the Polish aircraft display. And, I had dinner on the central square in a downpour with Genie & sons.
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Kraków
Dec 21, 2019 6:40:15 GMT
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Post by juju on Dec 21, 2019 6:40:15 GMT
Do you know, it didn’t even occur to me to look Genie up - wish I had But then we are on quite a tight schedule. Off to the salt mines today. We are not doing Schindler’s factory or the Auschwitz tour - I don’t feel up to those at the moment. Kraków is beautiful though. It looks like my son is only here till Feb, which is a pity, I hoped he’d stay longer.
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Kraków
Dec 23, 2019 0:09:23 GMT
Post by kingedmund on Dec 23, 2019 0:09:23 GMT
This sounds amazing.
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Kraków
Dec 23, 2019 3:16:43 GMT
Post by Moose on Dec 23, 2019 3:16:43 GMT
Well I dunno how amazing Auschwitz is but I think everyone should see it - once. I think my sister did but she has not said anything about it. It is probably hard to talk about.
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Kraków
Dec 24, 2019 10:58:13 GMT
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Post by juju on Dec 24, 2019 10:58:13 GMT
We might manage it next time we’re here, if he stays a bit longer. We went to the Jewish Quarter of the city, which is an odd mix of arty and poignant.
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Kraków
Dec 24, 2019 18:57:33 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Dec 24, 2019 18:57:33 GMT
We might manage it next time we’re here, if he stays a bit longer. We went to the Jewish Quarter of the city, which is an odd mix of arty and poignant. Did you go to the square of chairs, Ghetto Heroes Square? Poignant. I had the best meal of my entire trip in the quaint little Jewish restaurant on a charming small square in the ghetto quarter. Exquisite dumplings. I stayed at the Aleph Hotel, just across the tracks from the quarter. But I could not go to the concentration camp. I don't need to have such inhumanity smeared into my already sensitive psychic wounds. Instead, I went in to the bowels of the salt mines. You said you were headed there, so, I have to ask....How'd you like it? I found it awesome and I was sore for several days after. That was a lot of tramping and a lot of stairs. It is my understanding that between the pogroms prior to the war, and the Shoah of the war, and cultural flight afterwards, that the Jewish population of Poland, and thus the Krakow region, is minuscule compared to the past.
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Kraków
Jan 3, 2020 16:16:01 GMT
Post by kingedmund on Jan 3, 2020 16:16:01 GMT
I bet it was beautiful WG? Salt mines? How far below ground?
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Kraków
Jan 3, 2020 20:52:09 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Jan 3, 2020 20:52:09 GMT
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Kraków
Jan 5, 2020 17:12:48 GMT
Post by kingedmund on Jan 5, 2020 17:12:48 GMT
Thank you.
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