Our starting point was Krakow, Poland. We planned a day here to see the sights and adjust to the time zone, and I’m so glad that we did. This was a great city with a beautiful historic old town area awesome food. We did a Segway tour to get the layout of things and then wandered around the old town square and side streets.
Krakow was also an interesting start to some World War Two history that we were interested in seeing. It was occupied by the Nazis and was the location of Oskar Schindler’s factory (“Schindlers List”). We visited the factory which is now a very well done museum telling the story of Nazi occupation and the lives of the Jews who worked for Schindler and were eventually saved by him. We also walked through the Jewish ghetto (if you ever saw Schindlers List, this was the neighborhood where the Jews were taken from their homes and sent to concentration camps). And many were killed here in these streets before they ever made it to a camp.