POLSKA! Part 2 Salt, Chopin and chocolate! We got up before breakfast and got on a train for Krakow. Apparently the woman at the ticket station gave us 1st class seats on the way there, but 2nd class on the way back. Huh, oh well. After the very long train ride, we arrived in Krakow, dropped the bags at our hostel and went to the bus station to go to the salt mine. Copernicus! Salty! First, we had to go down 380 steps. After that we started our tour. We learned about methane explosions, how they got horses down into the mine, culture and wood. We heard the legend of St. Kinga, patron saint of salt miners. She was a Hungarian princess and when she was to be married to a Polish prince, she asked her father to give her a salt mine as her dowry (salt was amazingly precious then, one big block could buy you an entire village!). He obliged and as a sign of ownership she chucked her engagment ring down a shaft of the mine. When she arrived in Poland, she order...
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I just read your blog about having your hair cut. I admire you for doing this. My little girl, Mari, had chemo treatment and lost all her hair. She wore occasionally a synthetic wig. It was most uncomfortable. The child that receives your hair will definitely be happy. Thank you for being so generous.
I know you are enjoying your adventure down under. That is one place I have always wanted to go. You have made me realize I better save up and get going. I know you are having fun. Be careful.