Long day sightseeing - 2

After the Jewish quarter a tram ride back to the apartment, a cup of tea and a rest! Then to the national museum in Kraków to see one of my favourite paintings in the flesh - Leonardo's lady with an ermine. Painted in 1490, the lady is a seventeen-old mistress of Leonardo's patron the duke of Milan, and it's beautiful! But there we were again in a crowd - it's in a decent sized room, on its own, but the room was full of a school group, being lectured at, at great length, in polish of course, about the painting so nobody else could get near. Eventually we managed to see it, just before a party of Chinese tourists arrived, and yes it's wonderful, but I'm getting very fed up of the overcrowding here. There were supposed to be some fine mediaeval stained glass windows in the museum that we wanted to see, but we couldn't find them and none of the museum staff, including the information desk , knew anything about them so we decided that they must been moved somewhere else some time ago.

Stopped on the way home and bought big slices of butterscotch cheesecake - the best thing we've done all day!Read more