Monday, May 12, 2008

Torun...yup we go here!

Today we are in Torun, we had the afternoon free to wander the city and discover some of its hidden treasures. Kate, Maggie, Jeremey and I walked the whole town in a couple of hours stopping at some highlights. Our first stop was the ruins of a castle which seperated the new and old towns in the 15th century. The castle was demolished when there was no longer a need for the seperation. Now the ruins can be visited and roamed. There were mostly just the base fo walls left over but the underground crypts and passages are still fully in tact. We had quite the adventure down there. Also fully in tact is the sanitary tower (or the tower where you can use the toilets, which is seperate from the rest of the castle and drains into the moat/river), which we climbed to. After exploring the ruins, we wandered the city until we happened up the university. A huge gothic building surrounded by a cast iron fence and inside were georgious gardens with aeromatic trees and flowers. We wandered into the yard of the univeristy and peeked inside the main building. It was old! We think that Elmira College is old...1855 and all. Well this place so beat that. At anyrate we moved on and finished our mini tour with the leaning tower which was a disapointment because the tower itself was covered with scaftholding and tarps. Quite a pitty, we could see the door though and it was clear it was crooked. That was Torun in a nut shell, tonight we are getting perogies and then tomorrow we are starting our journey south.

Chelsea

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