Evening concert in Krakow Historical Museum by Krzysztof and Szymon Klima (clarinets) and Jagielonian String Quartet (whose 1st violin forgot Brahms' Hungarian Dance No 5).
Sunday - walked through old town and Kazimierz, the old Jewish Quarter. Mark was given a skull cap to enter the Tempel Synagogue while a young man, who wasn't, then took off his baseball cap as a mark of respect.
Crossed Vistula River to wartime Jewish ghetto of Podgorze and walked through the former Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik - the enamal factory run by Oskar Schindler, who saved over 1200 Jews there.
Mark turned away by Szara restaurant - unwilling to serve him lunch at all.
But apart from these minor epicurean problems the food was very good - not the expected staple fare of meat and stodgy vegetables but lots of different fish and variety of accompanying dishes.
Afternoon concert in Mirror Hall of the Grand Hotel - opera, operetta and musical numbers by Orpheus Ensemble and seriously scary diva Bozena Zawislak-Dolny.
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