We're Jordan and Emily we have the goal to see as much of the world as possible
before our money runs out after spending the last few weeks exploring Poland we've
finally made our way to the city that has been recommended the most
Yesterday we were dropped in Krakow by another flix bus and we're immediately overwhelmed by
how much history is here we were feeling a little bit sick and it did start to rain pretty quickly
massive thunderstorm everyone's running inside so we decided to call it a day and try again
this morning only having one day to explore this city is pretty crazy and almost impossible but
we've got a rough plan to walk around the city and see and eat as many things as we
can starting with a dense bread that Emily loves they should be pretty available in these little
blue carts around the city so hopefully we can find some and hopefully we don't get rained out
and at the risk of boring everyone i brushed up on some fun facts of the city
to share with everybody especially Emily we are approaching the only remains of
the old city wall that used to surround the entire city it is the fortification
tower i guess you could say looks pretty cool looks really cool
you can normally go in but it doesn't open yet so we're just going to walk straight past it can you
it doesn't look like you can have to balance your way over yeah right next to that fortification is
one of the old city walls and what are the blue carts that we're hunting at the moment
where are we are at Florian's gate and i know nothing about it other than it looks really cool
and that it's the beginning of the royal way, Route.
the royal route apparently is going to take us all the way from these things to old town which
is where we're hoping there's going to be an open blue cart selling the little dense bread things
because i'm starving there is more food we want to try today we figure since we only have one day in
Krakow it's going to be a sightseeing day plus a food tour day merged into one i'm so excited
this is the old market square and this is where we were last night when these skies
opened up and there was the loudest thundercrack i've heard in such a long time
we ended up in the old cloth market with everyone else sheltering from the rain
but it's so nice being here early in the morning it still looks like the people with the blue carts
are setting up so we might have to wander around for a bit more before we can get a breakfast
another fun fact pigeons are prolific here pigeons are everywhere and the story goes that they're
actually all medieval knights so there was a guy who wanted to unite poland all together but he
didn't have enough money to go and convince the pope that it was a good idea so he went to this
witch and said give me the money like i'm going to do this it's going to be really really good
she says you know what i will but all your knights will be turned into pigeons until you come back
so she came to the town and she turned every knight into a pigeon they flew up to the roof of
the main building here and they started dropping coins off and they littered the land with gold
coins the knight picked them all up and started his journey down to the pope got a bit carried
away ended up spending all his money and came back and was like i didn't do it i really messed up
and now all the pigeons remain those knights that were turned into Pigeons pretty cool so
there is like a there's a really healthy respect for pigeons in this town square
more than you would see anywhere else there's no people being mean to them pretty much
so fun facts with Emily on the hour there's a bugle player that plays in this little clock tower
and his song cuts off really abruptly and the legend goes that he was playing the
song telling the guys at the gate to shut the gate and he got shot in the neck by an
arrow so the song cut off so they still do that to this day to honor him for giving his life and
trying to warn the town's people that there were people invading is that right yeah yeah
i don't know if it's because we've come out too early and it's a Saturday morning but all of the
blue carts that are set up are like trinkets and souvenirs not the circle breads that we really
want so we're gonna move on to the next stop of the day and hopefully find one along the way
we need
sesame seeds
bye have a good day
i'm so excited we got our circle bread or omg we both love dense breads and what i
mean by that is like bagels pretzels anything like a really hearty bread we love apparently
that's what this is as well that's why we keep referring it to it as a dense bread
we went for sesame seeds because sesame seeds are the greatest
it looked like there was poppy seeds like an everything bagel sort of flavor
oh it's dense it's kind of like a pretzel mixed with a bagel
and the sesame seeds add an amazing sesame flavor to it great breakfast and for two Zlotty 50 like
you really can't go wrong we got it from the sweetest old lady on a little blue car
i think i paid a little bit extra because i accidentally got the wrong amount of change out
but she was so nice didn't speak any english was smoking a cigarette right there great service
so this castle was first started over a thousand years ago and it's one of the main historical
sites in Poland like one of the most protected because over those thousand years every different
little bit of architecture has kind of been added to this kind of like a bowl of play-doh
and they just keep adding more and more play-doh so now it's all these different types of styles
of building perch on a hill pretty cool one thing i don't know why but i absolutely love about old
architecture is the old like gutter things that always looks like an animal and i can
imagine when the water's coming out it looks like they're vomiting why don't people do that anymore
apparently there is supposed to be a dragon somewhere here so we are on the hunt
he breathes fire he breathes fire oh god
we found the fire breathing dragon that protects wild castle i don't know i just
made that up that seems like a true thing does it protect it no i have a statue for a murderer
we've seen the dragon golf about three times now which means we've been here for 20 minutes because
it goes up about every five minutes it's really cool to see that i didn't think it would go off
that often i love his little claw feet crazy that his mouth is all like blackened as well from where
it goes off every time we thought there was no way we'd get to see the fire we thought it was like
special occasions but every five minutes i did the same thing every five minutes it goes off so
we saw it three times apparently it was a dragon that used to harass the town and used
to eat people and eat livestock and then one guy killed it and instead of immortalizing the guy
they decided to immortalize the dragon we've been out for a few hours now so it's time for a coffee
treated ourselves to a big coffee because we haven't had one yet this morning
we were gonna get food as well but we've heard of this like baguette
pizza combo that's like a traditional polish food so we're gonna save ourselves for that
i think it's gonna be the next stop after this though cause i'm pretty hungry again
that's a good coffee
so this is Plac Nowy it's an octagonal stall in the middle of this plaza and each little window
is a different hole-in-the-wall shop that serves different food and stuff we've heard that you can
get the really good baguette pizza thing from here so we're gonna go try and have a plain one hello
this is zappakunki it is an old polish dish from communism times because it was very simple to make
back in the day it used to be a baguette style bread mushrooms cheese and tomato sauce on top
now you can pretty much get any flavor under the sun we've been boring and just gone for cheese so
it's essentially a cheese toastie this is only nine zloty and it is huge we decided to get
one to share because i mean look at this we don't need two of these plus there's this other massive
sandwich thing that we want to try it later on tonight so we need to leave room for that
tastes exactly how you'd expect it's melted cheese on a really crispy crunchy baguette
with this tomato like almost fancy tasting tomato sauce on top it's really good
that was delicious but even to share massive massive the next thing we were going to do
is actually another food very anticipated one and also quite huge we do have to walk there so
i think we'll take the longest way possible
this walk has not made any room in my belly at all so we're gonna get one of these burgers to share
but i'm so excited for it looks like a pulled pork burger with pickles on it gonna be good
look how big this sandwich is oh it smells so good there's so many pickles on there
couldn't find a seat in the food truck park so we've come to the street again
we have gotten a massive pork sandwich to share it smells amazing and it looks like the pork's
really slow roasted from what i understand this was like really popular back in the day and it's sort
of having like a resurgence and that food truck that we got it from is the most popular place to
get them we went for the classico which is like a pulled pork pickles and then some sort of sauce
it looks delicious it smells amazing and there is a massive amount of pork on here
looks like it's gonna be messy to eat though
oh my gosh it's like it's been properly slow cooked delicious
i still got a fork to eat it with
you want some yes had to google it looked it up that delicious burger is called a maczanka
it's pretty much just a pulled pork roll but amazing yeah i think it was so popular
back in the day because essentially it was like people's leftovers from the night before that
just chuckled on a sandwich called it a day yeah that's cool yeah all right we're gonna
head back to the hotel we have a new bus to a brand new country tomorrow woo-hoo Bratislava