Hmmm... I feel so behind on my blog because I have been to three cities that have yet to appear here.
Prague was a really cool city- it seems like so long ago already. One of the best things we did there was a tour by our guide Gabriel. He took to the outskirts and taught us about the assassination of Heydrich, the #3 man of the Nazis, by running the course (literally running) that one of the assassins did. None of us will forget the moment when we all started running up the hill and around the corner to see what it felt like for the brave Czech man to try and kill a Nazi leader...
Another highlight was ice skating! About 2/3 of our group went to ice rink in Prague on a free afternoon. I was pretty tense about skating at first because it had been a long time for me... Then, we started having a lot of fun and even ended up racing a group of girls from an international school. They were from all over the world: Argentina, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, etc. We used metal benches and had a couple people push someone else sitting on the bench. They definitely beat us a couple times but it was still fun to play with them!
On Sunday, we went to a Church of England service in the city. I had accidentally left my Bible on the plane to Berlin, so I asked if they had one for sale. At first they didn't think they had one for me. Then, they ended up giving me one that is about 3-4 inches thick- it's still a blessing because I wasn't sure where I would be able to get an English-language Bible.
From Prague, we moved on to Poland. Krakow is a medieval town that is pretty lively because of it's large university and student population. The Poles apparently really like jazz music...so, we went to a jazz restaurant and club a couple nights in a row. The food was great and the music was even better. The restaurant was in an underground cellar off the main square. It had great ambiance was lots of fabrics and even glitter on the stone walls (it sounds pretty random, I know).
We had a tour of city and learned about its legends. For example, there used to be a dragon who lived in a cave by the river When people started settling in the area he became angry and ate a lot of them and, thus, started a war with them. A brave man named Crac fed the dragon sulfur which made him really thirsty. The dragon started gulping water from the river to quench his insatiable thirst. He drank so much that he exploded. That's why it is called Cracow (or Krakow)! Thanks, Crac!
The city has some great stories to tell. We also enjoyed souvenir shopping at the cloth hall market.
We took a day trip that I'll save for next time: Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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