Zaułek Niewiernego Tomasza

Frankly there is something special in this part of the St. Thomas Street, something that has an instant appeal.
I was walking there couple of days ago and was wondering how to write in review about the place everyone knows. Attracted by to the palm tree I immediately turned towards it and keeping in my memories Arrete de la Palm in Napoli, where I used to live, was wondering why this place looks so beautiful. I think the colours and feelings I have in me, made me to describe the place as experience more than historical buildings.
Maybe the fact that that this is one of only few crooked streets in the whole Krakow’s Old Town or may be its doubtful past?
In last two hundred years the location housed iron-​worker shop, blacksmith shop, brothel, then made it to the movie business as a setting for the film later converted to an art gallery…
Quite a story and this is without even mentioning largely unknown but certainly «colorful» past from its deep Middle-​Ages origins.
Uneven surfaces in pink or dark reddish colours, little rickety tables with beautiful chairs visibly touched by the hand of time, old wooden wardrobe, leave no doubt that you entered a different world.
Charming «Fin de siècle» ambiance is created by tiny bit of everything.
It is not the place for food-​devouring feast.
It is a place for having one of local alcoholic drinks –It is a place to treat yourself with one good meal.
It is a cool meeting spot, a place for hanging out, place to watch people, to breath the atmosphere (may be slightly spoiled by cigarettes’ smoke, but still quite bearable!- just one puff…), read foreign daily newspapers offered free on the premises (if you are really wondering what’s going on…
”The small table perched in the recessed window is a fabulous place for two… It is a dream place for a romantic «tête-​à-​tête» with your loved one. Just imagine a late evening winter time, a glimmering candlelight softens shapes of everything around, warmness spreads from the wood burning stove in the corner… and behind the window the best of the winter in town — a joyful dance of falling snowflakes. Who will resist the charm of such place?” — quoted amazing words… :)
There are also two summer gardens. One, located on the Unfaithful Thomas Lane and shared. The second one isolated in the courtyard at the back of the Café Camelot is a perfect place to enjoy your journey to the past. It is so peaceful here yet still so close to the Krakow’s Main Market Square. Occasionally, this garden holds an open-​air movie shows.
Café-​Camelot/​Cherubino/​Dym/​Loch Camelot– big names of Krakow’s social life– used to be located here.
But in a way — this name perfectly reflects the spiritually cosmopolitan and somehow decadent nature of the Café Camelot and in general that of the recessed corner of the St. Thomas Street …
Defo I need inspiration to write :)