Poland
Travel Blogs from Poland
Auschwitz concentration camp
Hello everybody, I almost scratched Auschwitz off my itinerary - too depressing. Fortunately, I didn't! A tour here is somber and horrifying to say the least. But also very powerful emotionally. I hesitate to call it the ...
Birkenau extermination camp
Hello again, Just a few kilometers away from Auschwitz is Birkenau. Remember the famous guard tower and dividing platform from Schindler's List? The Nazis deported hundreds of thousands of prisoners by train to Birkenau. I wasn't aware ...
back home
POLSKI: "Nim dokonasz wyboru wolnosci, dokonaj wolnosci wyboru (...)" ENGLISH: "Before you make a choice of freedom, make a liberty of choosing ...
back in Poland!!!!!!!
... station and from there we took a Student Agency coach to Liberec. There we found out, that most of people travel to Poland through Germany, which was pointless for us. Therefore we took another bus to H... something, and from there we hitchhiked twice to ...
Old world charm
Dzien dobry, Old world charm! It's the best way to describe Eastern Europe. One reason why Poland's my favorite stop on this trip. My train to Krakow went through the countryside. Endless snow-covered fields outside my window. ...
A Little Shake-up in Our Boring Routine
We arrived in Krakow and found our hostel then went and explored the old town to see what it had to offer. Jackie was also on the hunt for perogies as we haven't had any since we left home and she's missed all the family gatherings where she ...
Poland
Hi Everyone, We have landed in Poland today! We are all fine and are having a nice time. The weather is great! We could be wearing shorts. We hear this is not normal for this time of year. We met the nicest bus drivers in Beauvais France. They waited ...
Auschwitz
So after maybe 4 hours of sleep we woke up (still kinda drunk I might add) had a shower and headed to the bus station. We picked up a donair for breakfast and waited for the bus. 1 donair + 1/2 litre orange fanta = disaster waiting to happen. Yup ...
Detour Revealed
Hi All, This will be short. We are having a great time in Poland. OUr hosts have been great. Polish people are very hospitable. They have a saying "When a guest is in your home, then God is in your home." We have been treated very well. We are ...
Salt mines of Wielichka
... were chapels as the Poles are very religious people (There are religious statues and crucifixes in the fields everywhere in Poland). The salt had also been carved into huge statues, pillars, halls and entertainment areas where functions and church ...
Mozzies
... off the motorways as the smaller roads are a more pleasurable way of seeing the countries. Today was a full day's drive to get to Poland and camp behind a Hotel just south of Warsaw. A bit of a noisy stop, close to the main road and the mozzies were ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
(C) I really can't bring myself to write anything about this place. It is the most profoundly evil place I have ever been and I just can't believe people actually built it knowing what it was used for. I was surprised that Auschwitz seemed so ...
Largest & Most Beautiful Medieval Square in Europe
... out why we didn't take more pictures in this town because it is so beautiful. I never even wanted to go to Poland before and I am a convert. First, our campground is wonderful and just on the outskirts of town. Second, they sell beer at ...
Kozyglowy
... via the internet to our Rotary friends Satish and Graeme for the change over night. It's a pity we had to miss this one. Poland is distinctly low on Caravan Parks and out of the way places are sometimes hard to find and unsafe. We were reluctant to ...
Trip to Central Europe - Krakow and Auschwitz
... landscape with little to see. There was a lot of construction so instead of autobahn speeds it was slow going. Driving in Poland was slower than eastern Germany. Since Poland has joined the EU it is undergoing a face lift -- so lots of ...
Salt Mines.
... damage during WWII, is very picturesque and much as it was hundreds of years ago. For centuries it was the capital of Poland the monarchy held court here. Legend says that xxx defeated the dragon who lived under Wawel hill and so established the ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
... never studied much history let alone history of WWII. It seems that Nazi Germany and Russia had signed a deal to carve up Poland between them. When the German army invaded the Poles fought the best they could in a hopeless defense of their country. ...
Concentration Camps to the Tatra Mountains
I kicked Krakow off with by far the darkest of my visits yet - a trip to Auschwitz, the biggest death camp of the Nazi's in WWII. For a start it's just absolutely massive (covering over 175 hectares) combining 300 prison barracks, gas chambers (large ...
Doing a Job on One's Self
For the first time in a few days managed to do some solid sightseeing yesterday. Wondering around Warsaw's superb Old Town and Royal Palace, all of which have been amazingly rebuilt and restored following being flattened in WW II. Even managed to get ...
Home To The Warsaw Village Band. Hmmm..
... 1 million) people either die during the Warsaw Uprising, executed as a result of the uprising or due to starvation and disease. Poland as whole lost over 6 million the majority of who were of the Jewish persuasion. Hitler and Stalin both had a hand in ...
Auschwitz
2.7.06 Oswiecim The north of Poland is poorer than the south it seems to me. With a population of 36 million people we did not find it over crowded as the area of Poland is over 323,250 sq kilometers. The kids are on school holidays now and it's ...
Wroclaw
We stopped in Wroclaw, in Western Poland, initially merely as a break between Krakow and Prague. We chose it because our guidebook said it was a nice place and worth a day or two. Fortunately we were more than content with what we saw and experienced ...
Temporary Insanity
... was delicious, the beer smooth, but sadly, we don't know about the women (in the biblical sense anyway). My one disappointment about Poland -- aside being so tired from waking up early a few days and sleeping on the floor of their hostel (I had a nice ...
The Adventures of Mak and Vonny
... of others, for ten more days of sheer trains. The duo took a tour of Austria, of Swizterland, back to Austria, then to Poland via the Chech Republic. As Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia don't subscribe to Interrail, the tickets were then, with great relief, ...
Krakow
... It now houses a museum on the top floor celebrating its past and the main floor is home to every souvenir anyone could want from Poland and beyond. After a long stroll around the Old Town, we built up an appetite looking in at all the "Milk Bars" (Bar ...
The Old Salt Mine
... how to give the tour in English. These Poles sure are friendly and they sure do like America, which is refreshing. I like Poland a lot too and will miss it. I am definitely coming back here. (S) Don't let Chad fool you. Anyone that ...
Klingers in the Krak
Krakow is a beautiful city. Unlike Warsaw, which was flattened during WWII, nearly all of Krakow's Old ÍTown remains a timeless piece of history. Following a very quiet and civilized first night for Hock / Cat standards, dining on fine food and ...

