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How would you spend 8 days in Poland?

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I'm going to be in Poland with my girlfriend in late July-early August for about 8 days arriving from Copenhagen. I have a flight home set up from Warsaw at the end of this time already. We haven't booked the flight from Copenhagen to anywhere in Poland yet. I was thinking a few days in Krakow including a day at Auschwitz and a day or two in a small town and ending for 2-3 days in Warsaw. We don't want to just see two big cities and leave. We'd like to spend a night somewhere smaller than 50,000 so not in Wroclaw, Poznan, Lubin etc...

We like to canoe/kayak/boat and also would go on a hike or bike. Would love to take a cooking class and connect with real people at meals or some kind of activity. We like food markets and farmers markets as well.

Thoughts on where we should spend a night?
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No takers yet, so I'll suggest two small towns between Krakow and Warsaw: Sandomierz and Kazimierz Dolny. Both have pretty squares and views. But we didn't stay overnight so can't speak to any activities.

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I'd recommend heading south from Kraków towards the Tatra mountains for your outdoor activities. It's beautiful down there and you won't find a town with 50k+ people either. Its not the easiest by train unless you have a lot of time. But its a part of Poland where most of the tourists are other Poles, and you won't see many English menus or speakers in the service industry. Zakopane is the main hub, is a little tacky, but has everything you need. The architecture in the south is also very fascinating.

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