DAY 3 - A less full day than before. I didn't even leave the hostel until 2pm, so I didn't have a lot of time anyhow.

I decided, after not really knowing what I wanted to do, to go to Schindler's factory just outside the former Jewish ghetto. There was also a big mound, Krak's Mound I think, which I wanted to climb. This is the main square in the ghetto, where many Jews waited for the train. Not quite sure about why chairs are appropriate.



This is a railway I encountered. Don't think it's running, somehow.








The gates to Oskar Schindler's famous factory.








There you are. In truth the place was very disappointing, because the actual museum isn't finished yet, so there was almost nothing to see.










Still, I could see this through a fence, but that was it.








Apparently these stairs are in the film. Someone get the DVD out.








Up the stairs, you can look out the window.








Charming scene.








Enough of that place. I took a walk towards the mound. This street was particularly interesting. Old looking buildings.







They have real character.











I spotted a cemetary here, but it was up a small slope, so I took a pic of the junction next to it.







It's a nice gate, but inside it's, well, a cemetary.








And lo, I arrive on top of the mound. What's this?








It's a big mound, as you can see.








And the view...








...is hard to tell with my photos (bad lens) but it's really good with your naked eyes.







Not bad from below it, too. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a tram back because all the stops had no ticket machines (I don't know if you can simply walk on and pay) so it was a long walk all the way home. I did, however, stop off at an ice cream shop, which cracow-life.com mentions "in summer there's a 50 metre queue out front". They were exactly right. And it is very good ice cream.



Finally, you see this glass stuff on the front of the Galeria Krakowska (big shopping centre)? Well, there's two missing at the top. See? That's because I saw them fall, with my own eyes. That's why the fence is there: people were running for cover when the huge glass shards fell. Crazy.




I went out in the evening with some of the guys from the hostel, to a couple of bars and then a nightclub. Krakow certainly is busy on Saturday night, and we walked around Kazimierz finding a bar. Problem was, it had started raining. After days of burning sun, weather.com said it was gonna rain. Sure enough, the clouds gathered, and after a while of threatening, they finally broke. I have no umbrella or coat, though I have a raincoat-type thing which I really don't want to wear except in emergencies. Needless to say, the temperature this morning is half what it was yesterday, which suits me as I don't like sweating all day.

Next stop, Auschwitz. Or so the train driver might've said... ooh, no, can't do that.