Wednesday:
After a quiet night on Tuesday we went to the Wieliczka Salt Mines near Krakow. They were impressive, especially a big chapel carved out of salt, as well as what turned out to be a private tour for 4 (where our tour guide stole some salt for us) of soem of the mines. We then waited for the train back, having some Smietanko flavoured ice-cream (for those of you that donä't don't know, that is the name of our amazing ex-physics teacher). We then went back to Krakow, burnt some time in the Old Town, and wasted an evening chatting, before gonig to the massive Western Shopping malll, using up our zloty on food and cheap-ice creams. There was a travelling physics fair, and we took great pleasure in worklnig out the physics behind the exyhibits (yes, we are that cool). There was one grenn bottle in a big tube of water, which when a foot pedal was pressed, the bottle raised up to the top. We then got sleeper to Budapest, which was dirty and cramped, but we slept.
Thursday:Budapest- House of Terror, St Stephen's Basicillia.
Friday: Free guided tour, The Thermal Baths (it rained- alot)
We met two groups of Mathematicans
1) At the baths on Fridsay, (in the 80 to 100 degree sauna, to be precise), we met the bath Mathematicans from Krakow, who were niterraillnig along the same route. We sadly did not iscuss professors this time, but rather out hot an 100degree sauna is, and how bad it is to stay tehre for longer than 3 minutes)
2) In the queue for the shower on Friday morining, a met a girl (yes a girl9 who was doing maths at durham University (yes, a girl). I got rather excited and discussed maths. In the evening I met her boyfirend, who was also doing maths at durham. They took maths papers on holiday with them. How envious I was of their relationship. There was such nerds. I set them maths problems to do together (and they did them). The boy liked cricket also, and was wacthing eurosport cirkcet on the common room tv. I joined him. He was jsut like me.
I could go on mention lots of people.
Songs of the day
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Fri: Far Away Blues- Joe prudy. It rained far too much today. my passport/interrail ticket/camera got soaked. I was feeling slightly homesick. This short song summed up how i felt walking about in the rain.
Finally, Somerset cricket...
