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...

Joe and I managed to surface from our slumber for 1 hour last night to watch the fireworks in the main square which actually turned out to be probably the best display we've ever seen. We then narrowly escaped the multiple pools of vomit, the drunken party goers, the icey roads and suicidal pigeons and made it back to our room for a well deserved 12 hour nap. We therefore missed the first morning of 2012, but spent the afternoon enjoying the sunshine, exploring K...

Me and Emma arrived flamboyantly into a snowy, cold, crisp Krakow in the early hours of NYE. We gorged out on 'Asia 2 Go', Zywiec beer and local Polish cheese before retiring to our accommodation for a well deserved, 4 hour siesta. We've just woken up and had to fight an untimely battle between Emma's rucksack padlock and my immense new multi-tool after Emma's short term memory let us down again as she forgot the combination to the lock. We are now recovering fr...