It was my first flight on Ryan air, and it was fairly smooth sailing. One of the attendants was really into iridecent eye shadow and the early 90's in general and had a matching tacky bad attitude but besdies that no worries.
When we arrived we had to hop a train into the centre of Krakow. We were looknig for the train station adn didn't find it until we were actually crossing the tracks and realized that it was indeed the brick platform with a bus stop sign on it. A two car passenger train that looked liek it was built in 54 pulled up and we enjoyed a lovely 1/2 train ride into teh city. Check-in at the hostel -Tutti Fruity hostel in old town Krakow- went smooth and we were off to sleep.
We are in a six bed mixed dorm. And my mixed I mean Allie, myself and four guys. I actually had no idea who were in the beds in the room until this morning I made the destinction that the tone and amount of hair on an arm sicking out could only belong to a man; possibly a Female Russian Olympic weight lifter.
Anyways this morning we went to Auschwitz. Go if you ever get the chance. I have a lot of pcitures but I'm jsut going to put one up.
In other news Krakow is also the mullet capital of the universe! The greatest specimines I've ever seen. One of my favourites was actually our tour guide on teh way to Auschwitz- Buzz cut to just behind the ear area, and then 1inch to 1 1/2 inch long hair all in teh back. I've coined this style (which is much less rare then it should be) the personal pillow. I've already seen the PP style with a dreaded back option. Heather jsut soak that in.
We went wandering around old town Krakow to the square. Its basically all cafes around the outsdie and then performers and some kiosk in the middle. I'm not going to lie I saw some amazing acts. For instance this angry angry polish man and his Michael Jackson marionette. A troupe of break dancing youngster with stellar moves.
Then we went to a castle that has a dragon's den. Really its a giant set of winding stairs and then you walk through a cave. This si me hitting ym head in the cave. And then when you get out of the cave you end up beside a big freaky statue of a dragon. Allie and I thought it was lame sauce, until it STARTED BREATHING FIRE. But it only does it every five minutes and sometimes it doesn't go that big- like everytime we tried to take a picture of it. Also we walked further along the canal where we found a tribute to Celine Dion- no explination. She had a star umoungst four other Polish people that we had no idea who they were.
Messages to pass on:
*tomorrow we are going to see the salt mines
*the weather has been imense so far I'm quite excited
*I quite like Poland however my lack of Polish as a first language makes me feel like an ass hat about 85% of the time
*one of the men in my dorm slept spooning his suitcase the entire night.
Messages to pass on:
*tomorrow we are going to see the salt mines
*the weather has been imense so far I'm quite excited
*I quite like Poland however my lack of Polish as a first language makes me feel like an ass hat about 85% of the time
*one of the men in my dorm slept spooning his suitcase the entire night.
5 comments:
Hey Rachel, Its great to hear from you...all I can say is enjoy enjoy enjoy...Say Hi to Allie...Take care love you Mom
Sounds like you are having some times! That first pic is amazing, I can't wait to see more.
I left out the adjective before times, insert good or wild.
Hi back atcha, Margaret!
Hey girls.... we are back in Canada (boo) and super tired, but Italy was amazing. Glad you are having a good time in Poland...Rachel, I can relate to the ass hat feeling when you don't speak the language!! We will be sending a guest blog soon.... take care!
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