Wroclaw is hot and muggy today but that did not keep me from exploring the city.  Sure it would be nice if it was not so hot but I think that makes it okay to eat ice cream so I cannot complain too much.

The city has lots of churches which I have been in and out of and like but 70 percent of the city was destroyed during WWII.  As such, most of the churches have been rebuilt.  So from the outside they look amazing and from the inside they are just ho-hum.  Still they are interesting to see and the city is lovely to walk around so I have been happy with this jaunt to Wroclaw.

Also, the city isnt very touristy so it makes you feel like you are seeing something rather unexplored.  This is not to say that there are not tourists here because there are.  They are just German.  And it seems to me that they are everywhere.

Yesterday when I was trying to take the tram to my hostel I could not get the ticket machine to work and I asked the only young girl at the stop who was with her grandmother if she spoke English.  The girl said, no not really and I pointed at the ticket machine.  The grandmother looked at me grabbed my hand and started speaking to me in pretty decent German.  Sure enough the machine would not work for her either so I--gasp, rode the tram without a ticket.  This is for the record something I HATE doing but I did it anyway.  I did not see any other option.

But the greatest thing in my book is that in most of the cafes you hear the waitress ask, English or German... the implication being that she can speak both.  It of course reminds me how stupid we are not to teach children foreign languages in the States at an earlier age.