Yesterday Zakopane received at least three foot of snow, on top of the three or so feet of snow that was already here, so Emma and I decided to go and play! Unfortunately it was a bit too fine to build a snowman, so we basically just ran through it, rolled around in it, threw it and anything else we could think of! After all the fun in the snow, we decided to go to one of the local restaurants for lunch and beer. After this we went for 'choros' which they make in...

So Wednesday, Emma and I went to the massive Zakopane markets to look at the local offerings. Upon arrival to the market, we were confronted by literally dozens of stalls of the local cheese with women shouting polish at us, most probably trying to entice us to try the cheese (but who knows?!) anyway, I love this local cheese, so I had some with cranberry on it. We then walked past a strange pug like dog that looked a bit agitated, so we stood and admired its lo...

So this morning Emma and I decided to head off to Zakopane for a few days. We paid for the room we had occupied for the previous nine nights and the receptionist undercharged us by 200 zloty (about £36)! So, that started the day off on a rich, high note! We then made our way to the bus station. We had a short three minute wait before leaving. Halfway through the journey, and out of nowhere, it started snowing heavily! Within minutes we realised that it was in ex...

So yesterday we went to the wieliczka salt mine about forty minutes east of krakow. The salt mine here is one of the biggest in then world and has the deepest underground church in the world. It was warm in the salt mines which offered us some relief from the freezing temperatures we've been experiencing. After returning back to krakow in the afternoon, we decided to go to a cosy little backstreet cafe for what we both decided was the best hot chocolate we have e...

Joe and I moved hostels, somewhere much cheaper and nicer, however the Internet connection is rubbish! So we have to walk into town to Maccy D's every time we need the Internet! We are also at this hostel until next Monday.... So on Monday we walked about eight miles in hunt of the 'chairs monument' which we had to find because we saw it on 'coach trip'!!! Each one of the 66 chairs represent one thousand jews that were killed during the war from the krakow ghet...