Witamy!

First - remember that I am now about 8 hours behind you all!!!!!

Well, for those of you who might bother to read this.... we are now in our apartment in Krakow. Small but cosy and comfortable. Jerzy, the manager is very helpful and speaks excellent English, French and probably German too!

...but now for the real update. We had a rather boring journey - I don't recommend either Singapore Air or Lufthansa. Stage 1: Brisbane -Singapore. Food - dull and boring, entertainment dicey. Dave's set kept shutting down and not a Gremlin in sight! Staff were just a tad unhelpful. Stage 2: Singapore - Frankfurt. Food..truly YUK! Entertainment was non-existent as their computer system wasn't workng...I suppose we were just lucky that the plane stayed in the air! Staff were uninspired. Thank goodness for sleeping tablets as 12 odd hours would have been Tooooooo much to bear. Stage 3: Frankfurt - Warsawa. I think I slept again but really that was ok and then the last leg from Warsawa to Krakow was just fine. LOT were just great and I have to show off. I ordered my tea in Polish!

We also met a Kiwi who has moved to Krakow to live for a while. good guy and hopefully we'll meet up with him and his wife over the next week or so.

Yesterday then we arrived here and being the lunatics we are we went straight out to buy: Polish 'Orange' SIM card, groceries from the Delikates, Obiad -late Polish lunch. I ordered from the menu and only one thing went wrong - I THOUGHT I'd ordered two Zupa pomedore..tomato soup ...BUT only one came!! But never mind. All was TASTY and Dave loved watching me eat the soup. Poles are brusque but helpful and love it when we try to speak to them.

Today we managed to walk from the Stary miasto -old city to the school-----BIG mistake. It was much further than we thought--about 5 kilometers. So no need for gym today folks. we start out lessons tomorrow. we have the newly published book and it's excellent. It reminds us of Headway.

We also took trams everywhere and went to shop in Tesco!! Hurrah for a real supernarket., eat your heart out Australia - Tesco knocks spots off any grotty supermarket there. we could have bought anything - even exercise bikes and car tyres, but we made do with CHEAP fruit - cheaper than at home - and beautiful bread and cold meats and...and..... and then treated ourselves to a taxi home.

And that's it for today. If any of my friends are reading this - ask questions and I'll try to answer them - same for my students back in Australia - enjoy the last 2 weeks of school.