we went to the castle as planned - cos the guidebook said that there was free entry on mondays (which was also why we were chionging both auschwitz and the salt mine the day before). took a lot a lot of photos along the way... cos the fog was such inspiration for emo photos heh. and well... free entry = happy
gordon's contemplative look
chinese female ghost + uh. man thing.
tell me. what do you see beyond this wall...
look we're at the castle!
i love the expression on gordon's face! (this was taken wrongly... haha but it's more funny than the proper one!)
testing the macro function on my camera... but i still can't get the effect i want half the time (like now.)
flower girls~
castle grounds in the fog (depressing rite!?)
BUT when we got there we found that cos of the seasonal change, the free entry day was sunday as of 2nd november 0.0 and that it was closed for one day a week - *ahem* monday. so it was wasted =(. ohwell. most castles look the same i'd imagine... but i was looking forward to seeing the armoury... and so pek chek that we planned properly and it didn't work out. at that point everyone was pretty annoyed (and i was praying that the rest of the day would turn out well) but no choice... so we went to the cathedral (which was the only thing open), climbed the bell tower, then headed off for lunch.
gordon needed to go meet our taxi driver to get his specs between 2-5 and get back so we could catch the train... so we attempted to rush so we could eat together. but that didn't happen lol. cos we walked through this nice park stretch... and were inspired to take photos! (i guess krakow is really a pretty place... just that there's nothing much to do)
wow... autumn leaves... (and the colour accent on my camera)
this is SUCH a JILYN pose!!!!!!
emoooo (i really like the composition though, lampost and tree)
contemplative?
so we finally got to the main square.. after taking photos for close to an hour! and were inspired.. to take even more photos... with a head. granted... it was the signature sculpture for the square
and then gordon had to run off... and we went for lunch as one of the local cafe 'economy rice' type places. after that, we didn't know what to do cos the most touristy thing left to do was closed...
mark decided (and tried to convince us) to go to this soviet town thingy... which required 1 hr of travelling time... and the tourist center person(s) all made faces when he mentioned it! kind of 'uh well... there's nothing there really, but if you're the kind tt likes to wander around, well no harm going'. he did in the end... alone.
us gals went to eat ice cream & shop for souvenirs. the ice cream was pretty good... but the no-smoking section was still really smoky! and we came out smelling like oil (from lunch) and cigarettes... like we were chain smokers. haha. the rest of the shopping time was spent freezing as we opened all our coats to try to let them air. heh. awesome time buying souvenirs though... cos there were some really nice quaint wood carving shops and stuff. after all the drama, we met back at the head at 530pm and exchanged stories over dinner.
guess what?! gordon had the most exciting story!he caught the bus 2 min before it left... took photos with some random guy who was following him and was excited (to see an asian maybe?)... met the taxi guy and got his specs back (and took another photo)... and make it in time to get the next bus back. and met this lady who could speak english and was an educator... (and took another photo. lol.) so i guess he learnt the most in the day trip. mark on the other hand was wandering around lost until he found a couple of signs lol.
dinner was at the chicken place again... then we went to get our bags and board the train to prague.
amazingly cramped on the inside!
taken from well... i was kinda balancing on the 2 bunks
i took the top bunk... which i found comfortable... but i was really quite thankful for my flexibility... so i could just fold over if i needed to get stuff rather than rolling/ squirming around to turn on the bunk. smacked my head a couple of times on the light though (but everyone was knocking their heads on the higher bunks anyway)uber exciting day! talk about new experiences man...
we kept watch in shifts, so i got to do 1 1/2 hours of quiet time during mine =) *awesomeness* and i had quite a good sleep throughout too =) though interrupted. at least i didn't get the graveyard shift... the guys volunteered to do it =P
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