We were glad to be back in Krakow at our old cozy hostel, with hot water, semi normal people and other countless luxuries. Not much to report here, I wasn't keen on going to Auschwitz and the short tour to the salt mines was 30 euro so we just pottered around the town and paid a visit to our favourite Georgian restaurant. We grabbed Total Recall from the hostel reception and sat down to relax with our beers when 4 children came in to the lounge room with their mums. Apparently 9pm is a good time for small kids to be having dinner ... They all sat there and watched people get their heads blown off etc until there was one small sex reference and then they all packed themselves off to bed as the movie was now "unsuitable for children". Wtf how is horrible violence ok for kids but sex not?
Kosice in Slovakia was quite boring. A square, a church and lots of pizza and icecream restaurants. We attempted to go on a day trip to a nearby fortress but where thwarted when we turned up at the small siding 1 hour out of time and were told that there was no connecting train for over 3 hours. The people were nice though and suggested that we catch a bus from the centre of town. We walked 2km into the town, which seemed to be the gypsy capital of slovakia and stood at the bus stop. No timetable or information, just a picture of a bus on a pole and 12 gypsy men staring and staring at us. We wimped out and hiked the 2 km back to the train tracks. We thought we'd fill in some time by having a beer at the shed behind the station, but when we walked back around, this was now locked and bolted. We spend a lovely hour and a half waiting for the train back to Kosice where we got some pizza, had a beer and went to bed in the workers hostel that was the only budget accomodation in town, hoping that Eger would be a little bit more interesting.
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