Luckily there was a lift back up - well it was more like a sardine can than a lift - very rattlie and all that. It was a very intereting (and expensive) trip but worth it when you add up life experiences. I will forget how much I paid (30 bucks) and remember the labrynths and the amazing salt lakes and esp the salt chandeliers which I was quite impressed with.
I have decided that there are a lot of nice, kind and helpful Polish people and then again there are the left over snarly, unfriendly and cold types. I have encountered lots of both. When they are nice they are stupendous and when they are not they are cold and arrogant - I blame the communists :) Been misdirected a lot but hey after 2 days I actually know how to get places - well I learned from my mistkes shallwe say.
Just got back from a chamber concert at one of the beautiful old churches here next to the main market Square where a delightful young man gave me a ticket at the student rate - said I looked like a student to him - what a charmer - actually he was and he told me that he worked with abused children and had been one himself - good people everywhere and we know where the others can go
I have taken the brave step of booking a ticket on the night train to Prague tomorrow night. It leaves at 10:30 and gets me into Prague at 6 ish the enxt morning - 9th Aug. I save on a nights accommodation but I will have to think about how to get to Amsterdam for 12th to fly to St Petersberg and revel in some russian culture. They were not friendly at the train station tos say the least. I have no real idea what type of ticket I have but I paid 90 dollars for it - it wasn't cheap - that was 187 zloty or close enuf. I think it is something in between a coach seat and a sleeper - maybe the seat just goes back a bit more - for 20 zloty I thought what the hell - I will chain my pack to my leg and sleep with my goodies close by. I will ask the hostel folk to translate it tomorrow.
Thanks Zuba for the loan of the backpack - it is working out well. I am travelling light.
2 comments:
Hi Em.
Sorry I just missed you on Facebook...It sound like you're having a great time.
Hope all goes smoothly for you on the train. I'm in St. John's for a week...probably closer to you that to home.
Be safe,
Mark
How far down is this beautiful room in the salt mine?? 380 steps - good thing they had a life, as rattly as it was.... Salt lakes and salt chandeliers - hope you took lots of pix, they do sound fascinating. Do they use the salt or is it just a decorative touch and tourist draw??
Good luck with the train journey tomorrow - hide your valuables underneath your clothes!!!
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