Can’t get over how cheap Poland is! Had an all you can eat BBQ last night with free beer for £1.15 crazy! Met a bunch of Aussies who persuaded us that coming back in at 4 this morning was a fantastic idea even though we're off to Slovakia today! This road trip is slowly becoming one long pub crawl.

Still dragged the others out of bed early enough to get some sight seeing in before our next drive, think they're starting to plot a plan to lock me in the boot! Krakow’s Wawel Castle is beautiful though, and couldn’t have been missed. There are so many pretty turrets and gardens, and the cathedral was stunning! We saw the tombs of the past polish kings, including the tomb of Kazimierz Wielki, which were a bit creepy, but the respect shown was incredible. Also climbed the bell tower and squeezed up tiny staircases past 5 or 6 huge bells, each one big enough to fit both me and ant inside! The biggest bell, the biggest in Poland, weighs 11 tonnes! From the top of the spire we could see the whole city which was pretty cool. Then we headed off to the magnificent Rynek Glowny which is the largest medieval square in Europe and saw more churches and cathedrals - Krakow has a ridiculous amount of churches, even I was getting a bit churched out!

Set off to Slovakia at midday ready for the shortest of our journeys, 2 hours, to a mountain town called Stary Smokovec. Decided Marky and Cat should drive since me and ant got in so late and in Slovakia you're not allowed a trace of alcohol in your body. After 2 hours cat realised that we'd missed our junction and driven a whole hour (100 km) in the wrong direction- nightmare! Stopped for another Maccy D's - shocking -which cost 20p then tried to get back on track, but accidentally took another wrong road -how stupid can you get?! Drove down this wrong road past amazing houses 4 stories high made of solid wood, looked like houses on mountainous postcards. Carried on driving past smaller houses packed ridiculously close together, looking like really luxurious sheds! The road then wiggled through thick pine tree forest that was so high and smelt amazing, then finally out into open plains with nothing for miles either side until a mountain range would just suddenly shoot out the ground. We followed the road into the middle of nowhere for another hour. we should have passed the border and hour after we left Krakow, and because we had no idea what the border would be like, or if there even was one, we didn’t know if we passed it and so drove for about 2 hours not having a clue what country we were in! Mad! So we had to pull over and ask some crazy looking old woman and found out that somehow we were still in Poland - aarrgghhh!! eventually crossed the border after 5 hours and arrived in a town called Dolny Kubin at 7 pm. We saw a sign for a ski lodge with quad biking, horse riding, hiking, a sauna, skiing, and camp fires 1200m away, got really excited, turned a corner, and got stuck in a traffic jam! Would you Adam and Eve it?! Played I spy for another hour, then crawled the last km and checked in to paradise! We’d managed to turn the shortest leg of our journey, an estimated 2 hours and 9minutes, into a 7 hour nightmare!