Poland!!!

Krakow was great to fly into - and it was even better when we discovered the best hostel in the world - Greg and Tom hostel, if you are ever there, make sure you book in! Where else do they make you a cup of tea and give you a cake as you sign in? Aside from your grandma's....

We nearly got off to a shaky start, after arriving at Edinburgh Airport and discovering I had left my handbag at Bec's house...complete with purse, phone, ipod and camera. Luckily we had it sent over to the airport in a taxi - but Tom was ready to murder me. And very understandably.

The city itself was quite compact, which was very convenient for walking around, and seeing all the sights in a short period of time. We wandered up to Wawel castle, (where allegedly they kept a dragon which they had to feed on Virgins - the Poles have an awful number of jokes regarding this).

We generally pottered around the main square, which was pretty spectacular, but it was quite noticable that you were never more than a few hundred metres from the nearest church. For a place with 50p beers....not quite what I expected.

Cloth Market

Also wandered about the Jewish section of the city, which used to have near 70,000 strong living there, which is now down to only approximately 200, as after WW2 who was remaining tended to immigrate.

Salt mines

The other major thing we did was head out to the salt mines, which have extraordinary carvings made by the miners, compeltely from Salt. Multiple chapels have been carved by hand, underground in these mines.

Krakow, Poland