krakow, poland

my friends, this blog is long over due as i have moved from Krakow sometime ago. No matter, to coin the much over used term 'better late than never' I will fill you in on the proceeding that were presented to me in krakow.

We arrived in krakow by train as is the way with most places we visited but the problem was we were not very prepared and didn't have directions to the hostel so we had to as some local poles which were incredibly nice and brought us tram ticket(because we had no polish money) and travelled with us to the hostel to make sure we got there safely. The next day we visited a salt mine witht the worlds largest underground church that the salt miners craved out in their lunch breaks. It was quite beautiful with so many amazing carvings. We meet a uk guy by the name of ash down there who we hung around with that night. He introoduced us to vodka which had one peice of bull grass in it which apparently made a big difference but i couldnt taste anything different about it. The next day we visited the concertration camps in poland. I cannot spell them so i will leave the names out, but it was quite a humbling experience. We visited two. The first one was like you would see in the photos but the other one just looked like a collage residence ground and the sun was out so it made the place look quite nice, but when you look at the photos and read the stories that went on in those places it is hard to feel anything but sadness.

Krakow was a nice quiet city, i would like to visit it again one day and stay for longer but for now I will move on to prague which will be in the next blog so until then watch this space.

L.A. Fairburn