We buy a Hop On Hop Off ticket for Krakow today.  We are leaving on the night train so we have one day left in Krakow.

We disembark the bus at Schindler’s Factory and go to the museum that now fills the factory.  It is fascinating.  We need to re-watch the movie.  Schindler seems to be an enigma.  A spy for the Germans, a cheating husband, a thief and yet he risked his life saving many of the Jews that worked for him.  A more interesting story than we remember from the movie, for sure!

As we leave the sky opens up and pours rain.  We get on our Hop On Hop Off bus that does not have windows and sit on the aisle seats to avoid getting soaked.   The bus stops at the next stop, all of the other passengers get off.

We scramble to claim their primo seats in the front of the bus, only to be told that there is another bus waiting for us behind.  This one has windows!

 

We ride to the train station/mall and decide to do some indoor sightseeing to kill some time before our train departs.  We could buy these jeans for 40 Zlotny or $15 CAD.  We decide to see if we can find them for a better price!

 

 

 

In Krakow the sidewalks are very wide.  We learn that is so that you can park on them.

 

 

We upgraded to a private couchette for this leg of our journey.  True the couchette was much more comfortable than our previous couchette and no one was being awakened early for a different destination.

 

 

 

 

 

We even have a little sink in our compartment!

 

 

However, it was still a bit of a rollercoaster 🙂  We stopped soon after departure for about 20 minutes.  Lots of banging and crashing as we assume the cars were re-configured based on destination.  We were on our way.  Multiple times during the night we were stopped, re-coupled and off again.  The upside is we don’t waste an entire day travelling the same distance.