Friday pm Auschwitz

Sobering afternoon  

Had a good guide

Huge camp 

No photos inside displays or crematoriums

Cold day and we wondered how prisoners survived winters

Friday Wadowice

Feed them breakfast and they'll pack their suitcases and follow you anywhere. This time to the birth place of St John Paul II  

Pretty town square and Monika's grandmother lives just two minutes away. There she goes to visit her

No photos inside the museum, alas. The museum is built around the room where he was born and lived the first years of his life, plus numerous artifacts and photos

Hotel and supper

Cold, so took tram home

In time for a group photo

At Faustina

Shrine of divine mercy 

Arrived in time for rosary before the blessed sacrament 

Window of the cell where she died 

Example of the rain all day

Walk thru Krakow

 Raining all day but spirits not dampened

This is the archbishop residence and from this window JP II used to hold impromptu audiences with a crowd of a thousand who gathered across the street

City square, one of the largest in Europe

Bell tower

No photos allowed inside castle it church so you will have to search Internet. But the courtyard had something that reminded us of home 

 we did climb the stairs to the St Sugismund bell. Touch the clapper to have one dream come true 

Tall tower (outside and inside view)

Thur morning began with a 4 hr bus ride

and a walk 

To reach Wawel castle in Kraków 

Before tackling it some lunch seemed in order