The obligatory city tour was first up and we visited the Jewish ghetto area. an area where Helena Rubenstein lived prior to moving to Australia. Roman Polanski also lived here and as a child he was sent to Auschwitz with his mother and father. His father managed to push him through a small hole in the fence with a small amount of money. Some Polish people looked after him till his father returned from the camps – his mother died in Auschwitz.
We spent the rest of the morning, after the tour, wandering through the city and its enormous city plaza (about 200 metres by 200 metres).
The afternoon Fay decided to stay around the city with other fellow travelers and I went of the salt mines. There is an 800 year old salt mine out of the city, still being used, and we investigated it.
The night time was a dinner the other side of town and we were forced to participate in various local dancing. It was a good night and a good way to forget the bad parts of the previous day.
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