I wouldn't, however, advise it. David Sturm last wrote for Travel about the restoration of Prague's Obecni Dum. Lorenzo Medici's Florence, Jack London's Fair-banks. Take your pick. The city is all of these.
Poles are also some of the friendliest people in Europe.
The cuisine is central Europe's best. Peaceful and relatively unspoiled, it's 150 miles east of Venice. Compared with Prague, the capital of Slovakia is smaller and politically and economically less mature. Once the Ukrainian economy is tamed, markets are potentially huge. Ruined by war and in the grip of Muslim fundamentalism, it's now a place where police will arrest you for flying a kite, i.e., displaying frivolity toward Heaven.