One Week

My first week in Kraków has passed.  Let's review some important lessons so far:

• Most useful phrase: "Czy mowi pan(i) po angielsku?" (Do you speak English?)
• Drying clothes without a dryer takes much longer
• Carrefour employees have about a 50% chance of speaking English
• Trains are awesome
• The Planty is most useful because it's well-neigh impossible to get lost in it

Today I discovered a wonderful dessert bar just south of Rynek which I intend on showing Laurel soon.  I also got a chance to try Polish pancakes.  Although similar in taste to US pancakes, they're a little thinner and don't come with syrup.  Instead, my batch came with a lot of chopped fruit and a few small helpings of whipped cream.

I also went out about 10PM to the main square to walk around and grab a snack.  There, I found a performance of some full-body metallic wolf puppets dancing to a piano player spinning around on a giant wolf-head piano.  No, really, you read that correctly and I'm totally sober.  I have a video of some of it here:

Rynek was radiant tonight.  I tried to capture a panorama shot of it, but panorama mode and night mode do not intersect.  Still, take a look at this, and ignore that it's a little fuzzy:

That's only about 110° of viewing angle.  I wanted more like 180°, as another small but beautifully-lit church was to my right..

There's also currently some happy (drunken?) yelling outside my window, which I can't really see what it's about.  However, I'm not too worried about this; the fan in my bedroom is good at drowning out irrelevant noises.