Cau and Mike on the train from Warsaw to Krakow
Mike and I on the train from Warsaw to Krakow
Gazing at the Polish countryside
My first taste of sheep cheese...with yummy cranberry sauce to top it off...this became a favorite of everyone
The hut where they sel the cheese
The main market in Krakow
Lined with restaurants and tourists....a guide book said that over 1000 people can dine in this square at one time
Cloth Hall, the main market in town
St. Maria...a lovely church on the main square
The opera house at night
Lunch at a traditional Polish restaurant
A traditional polish band...bands like this covered the entire city center
A cool geometric building in old town
The tower of old town hall, the original burned down in the 1900s
Ornate doors at the University
Mark Lazar (IIE New York) and Chris Medalis (IIE Budapest) hang out at the university
The courtyard
Ancient measuring device
a lovely curtain in the university
an elegant table
The library...one of my favorite rooms because of the gratuitous sunlight and the cloud covered ceiling
Bust of Nicolous Copernicus....and his ghost
Old books in the library
The former kitchen area for Professors....with a really cool staircase
This room featured an 800 year old clock...still working
The main room where debates (and defenses) once took place...now its used for random meetings
I try to look studius in the professors chair
An elegantly detailed door in the main room
Our zany guide points out features of the door, “Good students give us nobel prizes and oscars”
Gazing into the well in the courtyard. If you look closely you can see my reflection
A brief shot of a Polish wedding where the couple collects coins tossed by attendees...
Clock tower on the side of St. ???
The largest bell in the world.....dangling precariously above our heads
View of Krakow from the cathedral bell tower. The spires on the far right are of St. Mary's on the main square
Grasp the size of this bell...Winne is dwarfed by “the lesser bell” which is half the size of the largest bell...but still pretty big
St. ??? was constructed out of a large multitude of styles as seen here where you see gothic and baroque architecture side by side
The cathedral framed by a floral bouquet
I stand with this lovely background
The courtyard of Wavel castle....with original frescoes on the wall
and a cool vine crawling up the opposite wall
A view of Kameriez, the former Jewish/Christian quarter on the other side of Wavel castle
A restaurant called the singer shop, because the tables are made out of singer sewing machines
A cell phone tower on top of a cathedral
The only Jewish symbols to survive both Nazi occupation and the war
The oldest Jewish mosque in Krakow, over 400 years old. Women prayed in the center yellow part while men prayed in the large brick part
Gazing at the old Jewish main street
The old Jewish main street, now lined with restaurants
Location of our last CESRI dinner....with yummy yummy food
Lunch at ???? where we started with freshly squeezed grass and ended with large meals served on silver platters
caught again!...Phil sleeps on the bus to the salt mines
Sign at the polish restaurant we ate dinner at
Kermit lives in Krakow!
FAster than a speeding bullet....
Its CESRIman! Able to ambass several countries at once while rotating the axis of the earth
Big booty...when I call out for a nonexistant number
Mike....the original big booty...finally screws up
BIg booty in Krakow....I could film everyone...but here is Eric (big booty) and Phil singing along to Big booty at a bar in the old jewish quarter
View of Warsaw from the plane
