Krakow & Auschwitz

We arrived in Krakow on Thursday morning {thanks Mark for Dropping us at Gatwick at stupid-o'clock}. The Old part of Krakow is very beautiful. It was also very warm when we got hot (33 degrees).

Krakow is a pretty amazing place - it has heaps of history and some amazing architecture. There are heaps of tourists here, but the city appears to be learning how to deal with them, there are information centres, that don't hold a lot of information, trams and trains run frequently to various places but little information is available (in english) on how to utilise them. But none the less, it's a great city.

Auschwitz.... well what can be said. It was a very moving experience going there. While we were looking at the remains of one of the crematoriums, a group of Jewish tourists started to sing in Hebrew. Gee's that was made it even more moving. It's really hard to explain the emotions that are felt while seeing the attrocious living conditions, torture chambers, stolen items etc that are there. It was saddening and sickening. People can be so cruel.

Tomorrow we head for Munich, and then we'll be onto Paris, so whatever relief the budget was feeling while being in Poland it will suffer some shock going back to the Euro. Today we'll explore the old Jewish part of Krakow.