Here we are in Bardejov up the top of Slovakia. We thought this would be an easy spot to hop across to Poland, but unfortunately not. It is only a small town so there are no direct buses or trains to take us over the border. We have managed to organise private transport now, so that saves having to backtrack.
Anyway, in this town there is a World Heritage listed square with lovely buildings facing onto it, the obligatory remnants of the old city walls and bastions, a church constructed in the very early 1200's containing carved icons from the 1400's and......
an unofficially renamed 'Johna Lennona' street which has a house with Beatles and John Lennon images on it, plus a sort of 'rock' garden at the back of the house with Beatles names and also famous album names, on the rocks. Not sure of the background behind it, but it was quite a cute discovery today.
After that my day was made when I went to get the annoying bits cut off the back of my hair (Dave has been trimming it for me with the scissors on his pocket knife!), the girls in the salon had pretty much no English but understood that I just wanted the back trimmed and to leave the rest. The result was better than I had anticipated, all nicely shaped and tapered, not just cut straight across as I would have been happy with, and then the cutter wouldn't accept payment.... They all seemed amused / amazed by the random tourist who had wandered into their salon and that was enough for them.
All in all an interesting and varied sort of a day, topped off by being invited to go for a drink with an English guy staying in the same accommodation as us. He is married to a girl from here so took us to a local pub. I didn't bother going on to the second pub with the boys, so consequently they have just arrived back at 1 am.... a bit of bloke therapy for Dave...... Just as well we haven't got a 6.30 am start tomorrow!
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