Oakham History Department

The History Department arranges visits to historical sites, workshops at leading museums, takes groups to lectures by important historians and has organised successful tours abroad. This blog gives news of any current excursions from Oakham...

You can find out more about History at Oakham by visiting the Department website.



Sunday, February 12, 2012

Arrived at Hotel Galicya, Krakow



We have arrived and settled in comfortably at our hotel in Krakow, the Hotel Galicya. Galicya is the south-western region of Poland which historians will know was part of the Austrian Empire until 1918. We have had a very good Polish breakfast and are resting before exploring the attractions of the city centre: historic culture going back to the medieval period...and shopping.

Our overnight coach journey from Berlin was uneventful but not particularly smooth near the border as we bumped over miles of snow-covered, rough concrete, but once in Poland proper the motorway system was very good. We got here in time to be the first in line for breakfast and are now enjoying our very comfortable beds.

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