Main Market Square, Krakow

Here we were sitting in the cafe which Lenin used to frequent at the base of the Cloth Hall early in the morning  (can't remember its name!).  Opposite is St Mary's Basilica built in the 13C.  Gothic, it has a beautiful interior with vividly painted patterned walls and a late 15C altarpiece by Veit Stoss.  From the taller of its two towers, a trumpeter plays daily every hour, four times in succession in each of the four cardinal directions.  Each time his call is broken and the piece unfinished to commemorate long ago the event of a trumpeter trying to warn the city of invaders but was struck in the neck by an arrow before he finished playing.  (They must have a rota of different trumpeters as the job would be pretty monotonous otherwise!)

Extra photographs: Oskar Schindler's factory gates in 4 Lipowa Street (they are original ones and they were actually filmed in Schindler's List).  The factory is now a museum dedicated to the man himself.

The second is of one of the chairs in Zgody Square, known as Ghetto Heroes Square.  This was the starting point where the Krakow Jews were herded on their way to the camps from the ghetto.  After they had gone all that was left was abandoned furniture.  The square is now empty except for lines of heavy iron chairs to commemorate victims of the Holocaust.

The next is of a man about to eat Poland's pizza equivalent.  The person who took us round the Jewish quarter so wanted us to take a photograph!  He preferred pizza's himself!

And the last is of Krakow's medieval city wall with St Florian's Gate  (the tower in the background).  It is the only remaining gate out of the eight and the main entrance and has been used for many royal processions being on the Royal Route into the city.  St Florian is the patron saint of the city.

And that is the end of our visit to Poland.  We would like to return one day, there is so much to see.