Arrived in Wroclaw (pronounced Vrotswaff) this evening and the supposed all-year round campsite was well and truly padlocked shut so we had to stay in a hotel instead. (In this weather I am definitely a little happy about this sort of situation.) We had a great day on the Sunday with Iwona and Jurek, Daniel's Mum's best friend from school. We were treated to all sorts of amazingly tasty Polish food and I had the pleasure of listening to Daniel speaking a forei...

Enjoying the Christmas markets here in Krakow, snow is falling and it's below 0 most of the day and well below it in the night. Nad's windows are frozen on the inside when we wake up. Last night we decided to leave Peter the Heater on all night and in the morning we woke to find that our adapter had blown up and melted the entire electrical box that we had plugged into. The whole thing had gone up in flames and we hadn't heard a thing in the night! We have ye...