02-10-2019
06:07 PM
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12:23 PM
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Waiting for the #EuroMeetup19 in Getz, I want to share some more memories of #EuroMeetup18 - Shopping in Kraków is today subject
What happen when you visit a small, ancient and beautiful city in Europe, like Kraków is? What the Local Guides do, in a few hours of free time?
We walk on the city center, of course, taking photos, and discovering shops and street markets.
Old Kraków is a really a small town, that you can cross in minutes for reaching Rynek Główny - The main square, surrounded by beautiful Churches. In the center of the square, Sukiennice, the Handicraft and folk art mall, is offering a huge choice of products, like the small boxes, made in wood, of the first photo. But also (this is what I like more) a lot of amber. Necklaces, bracelets, of all sizes, are sold in many small shops. I can stay hours, watching the shops. The space is crowded, as you can see in the picture here below. Full of tourists, that are trying to buy a small piece of handicraft.
In the past I worked in Kraków for many months, so these small craft products already fill my house, but it's always worth adding another. Don't you agree with me?
But of course, this is not the only open market in Kraków. 250 meters walk is what you need to reach Plac Szczepański. The street market in there is completely different, more for local than for tourist. What they sell in there is normally bigger, difficult to put in a luggage or in a backpack, but just as beautiful, and sometimes much more interesting.
Kraków is a city where the music is in every corner, do not be surprised to find a violin in the market stalls.
I can write for hours, pages and pages, about the fun, the beauty, of the European Meet-up in Krakow, at the moment I just want to know three things:
1) I am curious about the Local guides that was with me and @AntonellaGr in Kraków: what kind of shopping did you did? @helga19 , @TorM , @NatalkaR , @davide7O , @LudwigGermany , @barrazacarlos , @ikaramon
2) I am curious about the 2nd European Meet-up (Ghent, Belgium) - what kind of shopping do you suggest, what will we find? @JanVanHaver
3) I am curious about all of you, Fellow Local guides. How is your street market?
Can't wait for your Feedback. Have a walk in the music of the beautiful Kraków
Have a fun
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02-10-2019 10:22 PM
@ErmesT looks like you had great fun taking photos and enjoying the live music more than actually shopping! And I never knew amber came from Poland.
Cheers,
Karen
02-10-2019 10:31 PM
Hello @ErmesT
Thanks for sharing the awesome pictures with us, your snaps always good 🙂
02-10-2019 11:10 PM
Thanks for sharing nice photos and story @ErmesT and also the very well edited movie. I was in Krakow in December 2016 but didn't spend enough time there.
My wife and I don't buy souvenirs. We like looking around, looking at history.
thanks again for sharing.
02-11-2019 03:36 AM
Hehe, @KarenVChin
Well, really we bought some small wooden box ( @AntonellaGr was shopping) while I was attracted by the colorful world all around us
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02-11-2019 04:36 AM
Thank you @IshantHP_ig
what about you? What do you suggest for shopping in street market in your area?
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02-11-2019 05:41 AM
Me gusto mucho el post @ErmesT , sé que al ciudad es muy turística , y la lúdica pulula en el aire por doquier, casi que sustos permanentemente a conciertos a cielo abierto.
El viedincomoleta la visión sobre la música, que tan grande es la ciudadanía Ermes.
Un gran saludos Farid
02-11-2019 09:01 AM
Thank you @TheEagleEye
What have you visited in Krakow?
And more, to be back to the subject of this thread, what about street markets in Prague?
The city where you live in in my "to go soon" list, so I am very curious
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02-11-2019 09:19 AM
Hi @ErmesT. My wife and I only wandered the Old Town area of Krakow although our visit was cut short due to a friend of ours having an accident in Slovakia so we left Krakow to visit her.
Yes there are many markets in Prague, some open all week and others just Saturday or the whole weekend. We visit the market by the river every Saturday morning for our fruit and vegetables.
I hope you get to Prague sometime soon.
Regards.
02-11-2019 11:29 AM
Yes, the tourism in Krakow is increased a lot, in the last years, @FaridTDF
It seems that Italians are the bigger number, you can literally speak Italian, when walking in the city center.
The price for Hotel or apartments is very low, and the rooms are beautiful. With the same amount of money that we (you and me) spent for a double room in San Francisco, you can have a small apartment for four people in Krakow, at 10 minutes walking from the main square.
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