Coffee Coffee Coffee is all I had on my mind when I got up. Two cups later I was at the Wawel Castle. The seat of ancient kings and queens. The Wawel has pretty much created a decide your own castle tour situation. Everything is broken down into different sections and you can pay for what you want to see. I decided to keep it simple, as they have turned much of it into museums. So I toured the state rooms, courtyards and then the cathedral.
Wawel Castle
WOW. It was really beautiful upstairs. There were pretty strict no photo rules, so that was a bummer, but what sucked more was the fact that there were 49039403 million students taking them a tour of the cathedral that lead down into the catacombs. At first I thought there was a little snag as the line had stopped in this little tiny hall way going one way. Five minutes later I was even more crushed in. Then I notice that the damn teachers are stopping groups in the hall way and I was going to be down in those catacombs for the rest of my life unless I did a little pushing. Sidenote, these are small, tiny little hallways underground filled with teenagers. So, elbows pointed I pushed my way through. Definitely not my Mother Theresa moment, but I got out hoping to finish my tour of the beautiful upstairs. Um, I got dumped outside and decided I was fine with that and carried on.
I then ventured to the Jewish district and of course got distracted by a fabric shop. Nothing too good to pass up considering that I would have to carry it for the next forever. A longer than planned walk later due to poor map reading I found the Jewish cemetery. It was interesting. I felt weird being there but at the same time some of the graves were really cool.
Jewish Cemetary
Final stop for the day was a kebab dinner, few churches and a walk back to the hostel. Since I have no plan for the next few weeks at this point, I wanted to get things sorted out and as I created a loose idea of where I would be for the next week or so I met so great people at the hostel. One girl was walking from the very most southern tip of Greece to the most Northern part of Norway. Crazy! But great! She had a lot of stories to tell!
Abandoned pretzels.
Pretty church
Church of St. Mary in the Old Town Center
in Old Town Center
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