Planned for day three was a cycling tour of Krakow where we expected to see all the sights this city has to offer in an interesting way. We started the day off with a 7:30am breakfast with everyone looking tired and with bags under their eyes! Soon after breakfast, we left for our tour of Krakow by bike. We walked from our hostel to a bike hire and tour company where we got the bikes that fitted our height. We also met John, our tour guide for the morning at the bike hire place. John had been living in Poland for ten years, but was originally from Florida. We boarded our bikes and headed for the centre of town which was only about a hundred metres away from the place where we hired our bikes. We were told about the famous clock-tower in the centre of town that had a story behind it. John told us the story that took place hundreds of years ago when someone was watching from the clock-tower for potential attacking armies. The trumpet-player saw an army heading for Poland and raised the alarm. He was playing a tune to warn the Polish army on his trumpet, but got shot in the throat while playing. This is why the tune the trumpet-player plays every hour, on the hour, stops half way through a note.
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Then after the bike ride we came back and rushed our lunch so that we could get to the aqua park in time to stay for two hours. We went to the water park and listened to a presentation about safety. We got changed and all ran into the pool. There was a whirl pool thing that was really hard to get out of and many people had to go around it lots of times before they could get out! It was great fun and there were lots of really cool slides!
After the water park we decided to go to a shopping mall and we were given 15 zloty each and had to pick something original and new to eat for our dinner. There were lots of different things and most people had kebabs or salad and pasta. After we had eaten we had an hour to go shopping. A few of us went to the ice cream shop and looked around in h&m.
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Hi Girls,
Just had a look at all the photo's, it's looks amazing and we wish we were there. It looks as though you are all having a great time, the place looks beautiful. It was great looking at the photo's and searchng for Elle, we just looked for the hat and found her. The weather is being kind for you, fingers crossed it stays that way. Keep having fun and we look forward to your next blog adventure.
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