18/08/2011 Day 9. Krakow Got up at 8 this morning to get to the minibus to take us to Wieliczka Salt Mine. We arrived around 10am and the tour was to last around 2 hours. The temperature was already breaking the 20 degree mark and the sun was beaming. Again, packing the sun cream helped so I applied a layer. After some faffing around our guide got hold of us and took us to the stairs. 360 steps took us 65 metres deep, almost twice as deep as the Czech silver min...

17/08/2011 Day 8. Kutna Hora - Auschwitz - Krakow Got up at 5.30 this morning, it was still dark! Bright and early. Set off for Poland at 6 sharpish. Aaron and Nick did the drive. A good 6 and a half hours drive over the border got us to Auschwitz. Initially it was hard to grasp the scale of the place. The pictures don't really do it "justice". There were fields full of double sets of chimneys, the only remnants of the barrack like wooden buildings the prisoners...