First of all, something I forgot yesterday. I always like my peach flavoured ice tea when on holiday and I found some ice tea in the local shop. Unlike most languages you can't really decipher Polish, but it had a picture of a peach on the label so I should have been OK with that. No, maybe the green lid was a clue but it was actually mint peach flavour and it tasted as bad as it sounds. When I get home I will not be rushing to the Polski Sklep shop for any of that!
So, to today, the good news was it wasn't as hot as yesterday but the bad news is it was even hotter! 34 today. Now I'm in a rhythm of having a 3 course breakfast to last all day.  We had a walking tour of what became the Jewish ghetto in the Second World War. We saw the house where Helena Rubinstein was born (she made perfume and cosmetics apparently) and we went in a synagogue. I had to wear one of those funny little skull cap things, in a nice Man City blue. We saw lots of places which feature in the film, Schindler's List; we'll have to watch it again soon.
We only had an hour to spare at the hotel before the afternoon trip so we went straight in the bar. Mum reverted to Latte today but I had 2 beers; nothing to eat as still full of breakfast👍
So, the afternoon trip was to the concentration camps at Auswich and Birkenau. Weirdly it wasn't upsetting which I'd expected it to be. I think it's because there are no people there. We saw the dreaded sign over the entrance, the railway line and buildings we've seen many times over the years. We walked up the road to the gas chambers which was a one way trip for all those poor people, we went inside the gas chamber where they died, but somehow it didn't seem real, it was just another place full of tourists. But when I watch the black and white film made by the liberation troops it brings tears to my eyes; the sheer fact and scale of these atrocities that were happening just 6 years before I was born, just blows me away.
Anyway we didn't get back to the hotel till after 8 so went straight in the restaurant for more beer and food. I'd enjoyed the steak so much the first night I had another one and it was just as good. Mum had a burger and chips; bill for 2 meals and drinks, £23!  I could live here!