Beautiful covered in snow, driving through the high mountains as the flurries continued to fall.
We watched Notting Hill, played games and listened to a selection of people's music but the best part is the stories that accumulate from 40 people all in one bus together. With so many people and so much alcohol on the trip, it can only result in hilarious anecdotes of embarrassment and things gone wrong. Not so much memories for the grandchildren..
Arriving in Krakow after the sun had set (3.45pm!), we again dropped off our stuff at our hotel (!! Fancy!) and got dropped off in the centre where we had a brief (and dark) walking tour. We ended in the beautiful main square where lots of people were out and about in the Christmas markets that fill the centre. It is nothing like I expected it to be and much more beautiful and lively than I anticipated. Christmas lights and decorations adorn shop fronts and giant trees hold human size decorations.
We headed for dinner in a traditional Polish restaurant with music and tarot card reading! Completely Polish. I had dumplings (apparently a Polish cuisine!) stuffed with mushrooms and sauerkraut which were delicious and apple pie for dessert which was an actual baked apple covered in puff pastry! Divine! Sloshed down with wine the whole meal was incredibly cheap, and after the Hungarian currency much easier to calculate. Thank goodness the numbers are smaller or my troubled maths would mean I'd have to start pocketing a calculator.
We ran back through town (while trying to eye up the amazing looking Christmas markets - definitely returning tomorrow night!) to catch the bus back to the hotel and prepare for tomorrow!
Lots to see and do while battling the weather, followed by a dawn ride on there bus to Auschwitz on Sunday (Sunday? I think? The day after tomorrow..)
Thank you - Dziekuje
Please - Prosze
Toilets - Toalety
I'm practically fluent.
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