Archive for April, 2011

The Mound of Krakow – Rękawka

If you don’t know what to do with yourself on Tuesday afternoon you can just hang around  Krakus  Mound to explore polish prechristian, slavic culture and history. Various outdoor acivities from 10 am till late evening organized by Museum of History of the City of Krakow and  many others.

Podgórze rulez!

Warning! Do not try to visit the weasel!

Cecilia

“Lady With An Ermine” (or, more informally in polish Dama z łasicą which means “the lady with the weasel”) is gone!

A pivotal development in the art of portraiture, this enigmatic Da Vinci masterpiece is usually one of Kraków’s top 5 tourist must-see tourist cliches. Now, however, due to the brutal ongoing renovation of the Czartoryski museum, the weasel has temporarily lost her home and has gone on tour as a result.

ermine tribute painted on the shutters of Pracownia in Kazimierz

If you are starved for stoats, though, or pine martins, or badgers or ferrets or other rooting mammals that a daschund would want to chase, you can see a nice plaintive tribute to our famous missing weasel on the doors of Pracownia, a smart new cafe / bar in Kazimierz. And here, when the doors aren’t barred by an airbrushed ermine, you can have a nice breakfast and coffee or later grab a dark local honey beer.

See Acclaimed Polish Film “Erratum” with English Subtitles

Erratum poster

Covered and prizes and dripping with acclaim (just look at all those award thingies at the bottom of that poster!) the Polish film Erratum is coming to Krakow with English subtitles. Kino Pod Banarami will present the film as part of their series which brings the most popular contemporary Polish films to a non-Polish speaking audience.

The film will be showing with English subtitles starting on the 8th of April. Check out the cinema’s website for more information, or ask the person sitting at the hostel desk to call and ask what time it’s on.

Keep in mind: the star of this film has a name which translates as “Thomas Cat.” Surely that’s a bonus.