Sorry about the spelling, it's awful usually, and there is no spell check, and this keyboard is confusing.
The night before we had a good time in the bar with other travellers drinking and talking, and thus got up late this day. I lost my keycard and had to pay a fine. We then checked out but left our luggage, and went to reserve tickets at the station for that night's sleeper train to Krakow. After finding an ATM we finally started touristing at 1/2 one. We did the Jewish section of the town, visiting Poigiant museums cemetries, and syganues. Apparenty Hitler, once te Second World War was won by Germany, was to make Prague the Second, cutural,Capital of the Reich, with the Old Jewish Section being a museum to the exstinct Jewish race. We had lunch and split up, with Joel using our all day trasnport pass to go up the Funicular Railway (which the pass allows you to do, interestingly, if you find unified Urban Transport Systems fascinatatnig, as I'm sure you do), while I went to the museum of Communism (decent) We decided to meet on Charles bridge,as we were on different sides of the river, with the idea of meeting in the middle. I got to Joel's end and phoned him, assuming he hadn't got to the bridge yet, however, he was on my side, we then turned back.Sadly,this hilarity did not continue because we met. Given the wide bridge, we could have passed each other many times before fnding each other. We then went back to our hostel,and burnt hours away before our sleeper with other travellers. We then got to the station at 9, and had a compartment for 6 to ourselves (two three-teir bunks).It was very basic,lying on the seat with some sheets but it worked,and we got to Krakow for 6;20am
It was too early to go the hostel,and it was very to cold, so we dumped our bags in the train station, grabbed a pastry, and got on a train to Auschwitz.
I'm not going to desirbe in any detal what it was like, (I could go on for hours),all I will do is leave a quote of Hiler's which is on a plaque in a museum there:
I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience and morality... we will train young people before whom the world will tremble. I want young people capable of violence - imperious, relentless and cruel
we got a train back to Krakow, found our hostel and food.
Today we did the usuals and found a free walking tour which was good, and then had lunch in a 'Milk Bar'. We then split up, with Joel doing a free tour of the Jewish Town (where Schlinder's Factory from the film Schlindler's List is based on) and I did some bits and bobs. That brings me up to date
Songs of the day
this is so hard....
Jon Foreman- The Cure for the Pain for day two.
Person of the day: The guy on our walking tour today who had a 'Team Maths' t-shirt on, and a subline 'University of Bath'. e had just finished first year, and guess who is favourite lecturer was?
