Visit to Krakow

I have just returned from a short trip to Krakow. I took my mother along. She is 84 next week, and got her first passport when she was 79. Her first trip in a plane was 12 hours to Los Angeles!!!
The purpose of the trip was to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau , more of this in my next blog article.
Krakow is a very beautiful and cosmopolitan city , the architecture blows you away.
We stayed in the Jewish quarter, an area steeped in history. Oskar Shindler operated from there, helping to save many jews, however 65,000 jews from Krakow alone perished in the holocaust, and there is a memorial garden and stone to comemorate this in the Jewish quarter.
The main square is also lovely, we saw the cathederal where Pope John Paul used to preach from when he was the Bishop of Krakow.
Krakow has a very extensive tram network, something Iwish we had in Liverpool!!!
Where Krakow loses marks are total lack of provision for the disabled. At the railway Station in particular, there are steps everywhere, but no lifts or ramps.
Overal, apart from the sobering part of out trip, it was a lovely city to visit.