We're in Krakow!  Our accomodations are superb...the "management" took our hints to heart and gave us five star treatment...thanks Mike and Sunny!

Poland is known for its vodka, especially the Bison Grass variety (illegal in the US).  Apparently it contains warfarin, a drug under the trade name Coumadin, the most widely prescribed oral anticoagulant drug in North America. Gotta love our prescrition drug lobbyists.

Paula, Sunny and Jay at dinner (with our vodka drinks).

Jay and Mike at dinner.

Inside a Polish nightclub in Krakow.  Can you feel the communism?

We went on a bicycle tour of Krakow.  Mike had the coolest bike...full suspension.

The original entrance to Krakow when the city was surrounded by a two mile-long brick wall with 39 towers and 8 gates.  Their construction began in the late 13th century.  The city walls were as high as 30 feet tall and nearly 8 feet thick.  Alongside the city walls additional lower walls ran as well as a 24 feet deep, 66 feet wide moat.

The gate to Oskar Schindler's factory.  Scenes from the movie Schindler's List were filmed in front of this gate, but not inside the factory.

The only remaining part of the wall to the Jewish Ghetto.

 

We stopped for lunch...french bread pizzas.  They were really cheap...probably about $3 each.

How cute are they?  It was really warm on our bike tour and for some reason, the tour guide kept stopping in direct sun. 

This was a memorial for all of the missing Jews from WWII.  There are 65 chairs signifying the 65,000 missing Jews.  Also, in the background, you can see the reconstructed Nazi security gate.

Jay and Paula on the bike tour.

On the bike tour.

Mike and Sunny with Wawel Castle in the background.

This is a pedestrian and bicycle only bridge over the Vistula River.  Brides and grooms on their wedding day go to this bridge and put a lock onto the bridge with their names or initials on the lock and throw the key into the river.  There were also some areas on the bridge where you could see where locks had been removed.

We celebrated Cinco de Mayo with fish tacos, quesadillas and sangria...¡muy delicioso!