I ended up in Krakow, Poland quite by chance last October when my train trip to Warsaw from Vienna was aborted at the last minute due to a Covid situation.  I had never visited Poland and knew little about Krakow really, nor did any of my friends. But I gleaned online that Krakow was a historic gem of a central European city, similar to Prague in that it had neither been bombed during WWII nor overrun by modern car infrastructure.  My two-day blitz visit was particularly intense, provocative, and especially relevant on the eve of our election.