Poland Travel Blogs

... 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 castle on ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by charity_cycle
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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. Quiet, dark and ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by eric
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... 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. They ...

A travel blog entry from Oswiecim by charity_cycle
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POLSKI: "Nim dokonasz wyboru wolnosci, dokonaj wolnosci wyboru (...)" ENGLISH: "Before you make a choice of  freedom, make a liberty of choosing (...)"

A travel blog entry from Opole by bogna
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Szklarska Poreba by bogna
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by janda
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The photos speak for themselves. I had a bit of a party time in Krakow.

A travel blog entry from Krakow by charity_cycle
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by janda
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... 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 construction ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by chronometers
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"Every dream has been given to us with a power to make it come true"

A travel blog entry from Krakow by bogna
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(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 ...

A travel blog entry from Oswiecim by gr8escape
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by gr8escape
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... 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 little ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by danblank
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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 of it, but ...

A travel blog entry from Birkenau by eric
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We stopped in Wroclaw, in Western Poland, initially merely as a break between Krakow and Prague.   ...

A travel blog entry from Wroclaw by meganandkevin
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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 my ...

A travel blog entry from Warsaw by catters
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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 ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by susan_g
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...  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 ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by meganandkevin
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... or I'll never get home. It was a four day, 360km, cycle to Warsaw. I travelled mainly on the smaller roads. The roads in Poland are in a very poor state, cracked, rutted and pot holed. I think the EU will be spending a lot of money on Polish roads, they ...

A travel blog entry from Warsaw by charity_cycle
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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 highlight of my trip. Of ...

A travel blog entry from Auschwitz by eric
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The snowboarding resort here in Poland wasn't exactly what i expected.  it only had one run open that ran for about 100 yards.  if you're not crawling on your snowboard, you can imagine how frustrating it can be.  however, i got to see some ...

A travel blog entry from Zakopane by yah27
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... all night. This means that I feel inspired to compose something of my trip to the farthest most southeast corner of Poland. The Bieszczady National Park is located at the tip of Poland sandwiched between Slovakia and Ukraine and offers amazing hiking in ...

A travel blog entry from Ustrziki Gorne by pshemek
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Warsaw by natandkat
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One of these days I will learn to begin a journey without a blinding hangover and/or serious lack of sleep. In this case, again it was both. Having arranged to rendezvous with Mike in Prague, I hopped a flight to Warsaw. Warsaw being the first stop ...

A travel blog entry from Warsaw by catmoj
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Krakow - premier tourist destination of Poland, beautiful city and the place where I beat all my personal records of travelling incompetancies. Yes, it took me four and a half hours to find a hostel. When a guide book is published in 1999 and I am ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by catmoj
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... I passed village after village, arable fields, yellow rape seed and yellowhammers all around. The mountains separating Czeck republic and Poland were in the distance to my right. They looked inviting, but another time. On the outskirts of one village I ...

A travel blog entry from Raciborz by charity_cycle
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... , 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, ripped ...

A travel blog entry from Krakow by foolsgold
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... of the time i was in Krakow.  However, i managed to meet 4 ozzies and we all decided to head south to go snowboarding.  I figured outdoor activity might breath some life into me.  so, we all took the bus to Zakopane, Poland.   

A travel blog entry from Krakow by yah27
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... , giant cotton balls of clouds hanging bloated in the blue sky, and the smell of sour pickle soup simmering for lunch. I'm back in Poland living in the countryside just outside of Warsaw with my family. It's bliss to be here. The quiet is unsettling, the ...

A travel blog entry from Zalesie by pshemek
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... and there are no signs in English. We managed to get on the right train in Berlin and then when we reached the border into Poland the border officials held the train up which made us late to get our connecting train later on. When we arrived at Kutno to ...

A travel blog entry from Torun by heatheravan
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