City castle and charades with a non English speaking Polish hair dresser

After a bit of a sleep in we made our way into the old town square for some breakfast, which was all well and good, however it was now after lunch, so finding some where that did a breakfast menu was proving impossible. We trudged along and eventually gave up any hope of finding any little café; it seems only restaurants exist here! But then, we saw it. A tiny little sign above a door that read “café” It didn’t look too great from the outside, but my word, it was like a whole new world when you stepped into it! Amazing interior design and then it lead to this amazing secret garden like area, it was awesome! A great little find! What’s more, they served up a GREAT big bowl of hot green veggies for me! I was in heaven; I have been CRAVING like mad my greens! Then the hot chocolate… ohhhhhh the hot chocolate! I was expecting a normal one, but this one was just as if they’d melted cooking chocolate bars and served it up as a drink. It was crazy thick and gooey, and not really a drink at all, rather a very rich, decadent dessert, but I drank it anyway!

We went onto the castle that wasn’t as big or as impressive as I thought it might be, but I was told it didn’t have to be as it was situated on a hill and therefore it had its own natural defense, it didn’t need such huge walls etc.

We watched as a procession of police cars, limousines, and armed looking vehicles hurtled through the streets past us. I don’t know who was in the car but obviously someone vaguely popular and important I imagine. We walked through parks and watched as a plane flew low over head and we moved on to the shopping centre where we brought some essential summer clothing. We only have warm stuff and believe me; Europe does NOT require anything remotely warm this time of year, toooo hot here!

After a little shop we decided that as we haven’t had our hair cut in 6 months or more, we should really get it done. Both of us have long, straw like locks at the moment that is driving us mad. So, finding a hair dresser we went in and managed, through a lengthy game of charades to convey what we would like to have happen to our locks. Chris came away saying his hair dresser had been brutal on him and very very rough while I came away with my hair looking a tad shorter than I’d hoped, but lucky to have it at all as they were going to give me a fringe… noooo thank you! They were nice enough though and it was cheap so we shouldn’t really complain too much! Normally you’d get a cuppa and a mag while getting your hair done, they don’t do that here in Poland, and I didn’t ask as I thought the game of charades might take too long.

After dinner in a swanky traditional Polish food restaurant we made our way back to the hostel where, when watching the news, we discovered that the little plane we’d seen flying about the park we’d walked in early, had crashed and quite literally, burnt. Wow. So glad we weren’t there!! Very sorry for the pilot’s family, it’s awful news.

Have booked ourselves in for a tour of Aulswitch tomorrow. It will be hard emotionally on the both of us, but worth it I imagine. Will let you know!

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Chris and Emily on June 28, 2009 from Krakow, Poland

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

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