Krakow...23rd June

Moved hotels.. or changed a hotel to a managed apartment. 
The difference is in the detail, the manager/owners of this apartment understand this and everything works! 

The only frustration is the wasted time re-locating and not seeing Krakow.

Anyway... 'Julie' is banished to the basement car park so walking in Krakow.....

I went back to where I went wrong when I had my brush with 'the law' yesterday and missed this sign...

A no through way... I missed it during a busy Saturday night.. Sunday is much quieter... 

I decided to walk around the outside of the original wall line.. not quite sure why I thought this was a good way of seeing the city but the walk was in tree shaded gardens that hug the walls. Hat on, shirt on to protect arms and neck.. all good.. 

The overall meander is about 4km so easy on my broken foot and there was much to see..

This is a map of the old town... the walk is along the perimeter.. I started by the university...centre west of the map...

At the start of the walk the wall is only an imprint in the ground.. much later can you see the main walls..

An oddity on the route.. An extreme brutalist building inserted into the 19c city fabric...

As usual.. it is closed..they seem to know when I'm coming....

Sometime in the past, traditional terracotta tiles were added to the window cills... 

Leading onto the Barbican..

closely followed by the Juliusz Stowacki Threatre..

I think cities that have trams epitomise city life.. Warsaw, Krakow, Riga, Tallinn have trams.. Lithuania have trolley buses.. nearly the same...

The gardens are full of people, walking, cycling or on the motorised scooters... Pedestrians take precedence, even when walking across roads; trams stop for them too. If only London was the same...

The wall walk for me ends at the castle.. an amazing sequence of spaces...

On the upper rampart.. looking over the Vistula...

An sharp bend in the river..

All the available space would have been built on