5/8/2023 0 Comments Wurst vacation![]() You see, I’d had a chimney cake the day before from the bakery’s other location and was disappointed. What’s the wurst that could happen? I get a delicious sausage from the Wurst Truck in Kraków’s famous food vendor lot Judah Square. Afterward, though, I surprised myself by skipping the Chimney Cake Bakery truck. I enjoyed a bratwurst with mustard and onions at the Wurst Truck. Unless I’d been prepared, I would not have expected to see this in Krakow, Poland. I’d seen something almost identical in San Antonio, Texas. I had better luck at a lot that is home to a half-dozen food trucks, the Judah Square food pod. I went with garlic but wish I hadn’t got any. The most traditional sauce on top is ketchup (!). Tried a popular Polish food, zapiekanki, a sort of French bread pizza. I wasn’t a fan, and that was after skipping the standard sauce on top, ketchup. Funky shops, nightlife and food trucks sit easily amidst old synagogues, cemeteries and twisty streets.Īt Plac Nowy, or New Square, home to an assortment of vendors, I tried a zapiekanka, a popular street snack akin to a French bread pizza. In recent times, Kazimierz has undergone a resurgence, after young people were drawn by its rundown buildings and low rents. Kazimierz, a short walk from Old Town, was a mixed neighborhood of Jews and Christians until Nazi occupation, when Jews were forced out into a crowded ghetto nearby - until being shipped out to the death camps. Both are as powerful and depressing as you would imagine and will get their own column. Artists: so well-adjusted!Īn even darker madness was on view the day I toured Auschwitz-Birkenau and the morning spent at the Schindler Factory Museum. “Frenzy” depicts a nude woman, possibly based on a socialite on whom the artist had a mad crush, clutching a frothing stallion around the neck.Įvidently its debut caused such a ruckus, Podkowinski attacked his own canvas with a knife. Here it means the statue is from “the Nation.” /1Wp8NHnJwfĪt Cloth Hall, a long, stately Italianate Renaissance building from the 1500s facing the square, I wandered through the Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art to eyeball Jan Matejko canvases and the gripping “Frenzy” by Wladyslaw Podkowinski. My eye was drawn to the word Narod, as that’s an old name for the area south of Montclair. Statue of writer Adam Mickiewicz is a meeting spot in Main Market Square. But maybe the Poles were involved somehow. Supposedly ours is a reversal of Doran, a railroad conductor. The inscription has his name followed by “Narod,” which means “the Nation.” I had to note that Narod is also the fading name of the neighborhood south of our modern-day Montclair. The square’s grand fountain honors poet and national hero Adam Mickiewicz. Today’s buglers cut their tune short in homage. On the hour, a bugler on high plays a tune. The legend is that during the Tatar invasion, a town watchman sounded an alarm that was halted by an arrow in the throat. IWYjU0iFYNīuildings as old as the 14th century line the square, including the towering St. The medieval town square is an expanse of cobblestones across which people walk to work, stroll with ice cream, meet up, flirt, buy flowers, linger at a cafe table or watch, of all things, a breakdancing troupe. The Old Town’s prime attraction is Main Market Square. ![]() Whatever image you might have of Poland probably does not encompass dogs fetching sticks. ![]() One of my first sights was of a woman on a patch of lawn throwing a stick to her enthusiastic dog. It’s beautiful: tall trees forming a canopy high overhead, shading the paved path and benches. ![]() The moat was later filled in to create a 2 1/2-mile perimeter park. ![]()
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