Poland is an overcast place, at least the few days we’ve been here. And a surprising proportion of public computers are running *nix
Spent a day too long in Warsaw; it’s coolnall but too sedate. Maybe the bar in the hostel distracted us from going out properly. Cheese graters for lamp shades, a novel use indeed. Some funky graffiti around, and all the grass is unkempt. The utter distruction of the city by the Nazis (85% ruined) in WWII makes the subsequent rejuvenation seem spectacular.
Kraków is far livelier. There’s a festival on at the moment celebrating 750 years of being a city, a great thing to chance upon - the first night we were here there was an hour long fireworks display along the Vistula with weird dragon floats going up and down the river to crazy dance music, last night was Tomasz Stanko playing in the main square. Found a wonderfully chilled jazz club afterwards and stayed there for the rest of the evening. The trio played a great rendition of Straight No Chaser.
There is a salt mine several kilmetres out of the city, a great example of what men will do purely because they can. And today was Auschwitz/Birkenau, ugly and awful and on an unimaginable scale.
Prague soon, we’ve been recommended a visit to the ‘church of bones’, built from some forty thousand skeletons 0_o
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