Bar of the Month

It should have been perfect. A beer or two in the open air, bobbing gently on one of Europe’s great rivers under the sunset glowing walls of graceful Wawel Castle. The Krakow Post’s Bar of the Month team had waited a long time for this – since that day in antediluvian January…

Going to the pub is a fairly simple challenge, which may go some way to explaining why it’s so popular. All you really have to do is turn up at roughly the same time as other people you know and drink beer. Embellishments are possible of course, such as conversation and drinking things…

It’s difficult to escape the suspicion that Krakow’s newest bridge was built primarily to make getting to Drukarnia easier. I insist on calling it ‘the footbridge’ on the grounds that the official moniker, ‘Kładka Ojca Bernatka,’ is too much of a mouthful even when sober. Poland has not learned its lesson…

I’m pretty sure I would have demanded to see Christ’s wounds. Just because some dude pops up claiming to be the guy you saw unequivocally nailed to a cross and then entombed is no reason to abandon basic empirical enquiry. It was in this spirit that I approached ul. Świętego Tomasza…

Every month last year the Krakow Post scoured the city for the best beers to be had. Despite our Vulcan-like