Wieliczka Salt Mine and Krakow

On Monday, December 15, our same taxi driver from the day before picked us up at our 17th century, Krakow townhouse and drove us a few miles outside the city limits to the town of Wieliczka where a salt mine has been in operation for 700 years, ceasing most activity about 15 years ago.  Since…

Shiny Happy People

I’m pretty sure R.E.M.’s 1991 song is about the Poles…or not.  We arrived in Krakow from Prague Saturday morning on an overnight train that started off badly.  And it’s unfair of me to point to the Poles’ grumpiness, as the Czechs are none too sparkly themselves.  It was a Czech conductor/ticket taker who tried to make…