Horse and ... Cracow

Cracow installed horse carriages copying Vienna before tramways have been introduced - as a form of public transportation. Throughout the 20th century the carriage remained in the city landscape turning slowly from a common transportation into a self evident motif on Rynek. Nowadays Cracow is world's capitol of horse carriages. Only tourists use them. And as there are countless tourists in Cracow, there are countless carriages. It used to be a male domain to drive a horse carriage till young women discovered that they can make more money then men in this profession. As drivers they are more popular among the visitors then their male colleagues as they more frequently speak foreign languages and ... are better looking. So some of the male drivers at least found themselves a female colleague to share the job. Here some impressions of what is going on on tourist routes in my favorite city.