The Lowdown on Krakow, Poland. April 10th, 2006
Krakow is a great city to live in. Compact enough that you never wind up needing to take a taxi home, after a month you will recognize the locals by the park benches they sit on or the obwarzanki stands from which they hawk the local version of a cross between a New York Bagel and a Philly Pretzel...
July 12th, 2005
Krakow, Entertainment, Music and Clubs
If you're looking for live music, check out RE:, a typical piwnica (basement bar) in the Stare Miasto. They must have a great booking manager, because every three weeks or so they manage to get some fairly big names from the jazz/electro scene to packed crowds (about 150 can squeeze inside)...
July 12th, 2005
Krakow, Entertainment, Music and Clubs
Alchemia in the Plac Nowy in the Kasimierz is the biggest (read: most expensive) place to go for jazz, but they do get some good shows. Jazz, in fact, is everywhere. There are live bars all over town, many don't even charge, and it seems like there is a jazz festival every other month...
July 12th, 2005
Krakow, Entertainment, Music and Clubs
Lubu Dubu is an 80's bar extraordinaire, a bombed-out moody, time capsule of a dive that looks like it had been snowed under, completely intact, in 1983 and unearthed a few years ago for a grand reopening...
July 10th, 2005
The best thing about eating out in Krakow is that you don't ever have to feel like there are restaurants that are out of your price range. You couldn't spend more than $20 a person for a meal if you tried, and you can eat a two-course meal for three dollars...
July 10th, 2005
Krakow, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Music and Clubs
Krakow nightlife is abundant but falls into a few main categories. There are the student bars and discos that survive by being big and loud and charging 50 grosze less per beer than the non-student bars, which are also full of students anyway...
July 10th, 2005
Krakow, Buying Stuff, General Info
There's a wicked Sunday market at Hala Targowa, where you can buy all manner of Communist regalia as well as antiques and books and bootleg DVDs and magazines and just about anything else that you could throw down on a blanket and try to hawk to passersby...
July 10th, 2005
The splendor and the fresh air of the Tatra Mountains are only a 2-hour bus ride away in Zakopane. Skiers delight in winter, and a bunch of good trekking when the snow isn't there, which is, unfortunately, only about 3 months a year if you're lucky...
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