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Poland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Poland
The Evil Kebob ?
... nbsp; As the afternoon progressed, Katrina & her mom both became ill. We later found out that all of her family from Poland got sick also. It seems like there was a GI bug going around rather than traveler's sickess (didn't I just get ...
The polish onslaught streching out our ...
... mines were our first stop on our visit to Krakow. ---------------------------------------------------- The salty side of Poland. ---------------------------------------------------- "How is salt mined anyhow?" was our first question to Edita, our ...
Bit Of A Slog Today
... 66 miles today and arrived at Brzeg this evening. It seemed a long 66 miles - none of us is sure why! Poland is a beautiful country and we are all enjoying the scenery and the much better road surfaces that we are travelling on. We hope that ...
Poland, Warsaw & Krakow
... get the same camera so at least i have 2 batteries, 2 chargers & leads...we must always look on the bright side! I loved Poland & wish i could have stayed longer, the weather was fantastic, so were the people. Well take care guys, bye for now, next ...
Off to the Mountains
The pain this morning in my tailbone was unbearable. It took me an hour to try to get out of bed because any step I took shot terrible pain throughout my leg and back. But I managed after a while and we packed up and went to the train station, got ...
Auschwitz
There isn't much to say about my experience at Auschwitz, if you've been there then you most likely feel the same. So I'm not going to say much. I had an image of a museum, but you actually walk through the past of someone's life, threw their lives, ...
Zakopane
09mai : Zakopane la sauvage Arrivé la bas...personne ne parlait anglais...nulle part...Apres avoir essaye multe fois d'essayer de parler avec des gens en allemand,espagnol,anglais,francais et meme le body language qui s est annoncé fort convaincant j ...
In Which Yaourt Girl Almost Goes To Woodstock
... much communication going on. They wanted to know if I wanted any beer, where I came from, if I drank beer, what I was doing in Poland, if I was married, if I wanted a cigarette, what I did in Canada, where I was going ("Ah, Torun! Copernicus!") and if I ...
Not all it's Krak'd up to be
I realise i've left this latest entry hanging a bit. Think i started to worry some people when they hadn't heard anything from me. Must say i am flattered. Anyway, it's my last night in krakow, should of been last night, but i'll get on to that in a ...
Bialystok
I did some volunteer work on a farm near Bialystok for a month, stayed with a family. On the border with Belarus.. It was ok, but too cold. So I got out of ...
Monastary of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa
... importance of the roman catholic church in the lives of the Polish people. Catholicism is the predominant religion in Poland. I can say that I did not see any protestant churchs during our travels, and only a few Jewish synagogues while ...
Sunday, Day of Rest
I've been in Poland a week now and feel a lot more oriented. The weather this weekend has been beautiful and sunny - I think we were in the high 60s this afternoon. Today was the day of President Kaczynski's funeral service in St. Mary's Cathedral ...
A day at sea spent massaging & Salsa dancing
June 8, 2010, day at Sea We were at sea today so I worked out in the morning, Sam went to a lecture about Catherine the Great, and Danielle slept. We all met up and went to a massage class (how to give). Afterwards Sam and I learned ...
Aushwitz and Birkenau
... to Krakow, after sleeping heavily on the bus ( i think i was drooling.... not going to lie...) then i needed to eat something... and Poland is the place to eat right? and we saw this good restraunt thing, so we got food there... i had Potatos and ...
Warszaw and a Broken Computer
Well it has finally happened, there is less than a week of school left. I have officially finished 2 of my classes, final exams and all. I have 3 more exams and my thesis to finish off. That's enough about the scholastics. Last Thursday I went to go ...
Krakow
Again, I haven't learnt any Polish because I'm only here for two days. Poland is amazing though!! I'm on a tour through the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, so I've been through Oloumoc in the east of the Czech Republic and tomorrow will go through ...
XMAS
Road trip to Poland with my dad.... with his driving it didnt take long although it was a bit scary at times and in the end we got a bit lost and drove deeper and deeper into a snowy forest on a dirt road. But in the end we finally got there and a big ...
Ahhhh Chopin
Started the morning with a trip to Wilanow Palace. Very nice and very well kept. Built in the 17th Century by King Jan Sobieski III for his French wife who apparently wanted a Palace like Versailles-hence she was never that happy until things were ...
Into Poland
Our first stop in Poland was into Krakow, which we actually almost missed, having made a wrong connection. In the end we made it though, and it was really impressive to walk into the main square for the first time. It's one of the biggest in Europe, and ...
Last day in Krakow
The Rynek was having this fresh foods market. So we got kielbasa and mushrooms. Delicious of course. We then took a tram to my old dorm: Piast. Oh it felt so good to be there. We went up to my floor and then walked around. It seems like yesterday I was ...
I think she wants you to eat more
The word and place Pszcyna will forever conjur up images of only one thing. Food. Tasty Food I have never eaten so much food in my life. Our day would go something like.... 11:00 - Wake up 11:10 - Breakfast (consisting of basically everything yummy ever ...
Wild Nights and Wicked Days in Warsaw
... met Ania and Dorota about 12 years ago on a visit to his dad’s house in Toronto while they were also visiting from Poland. They had kept in touch somewhat through family but hadn’t seen each other since. When planning our Euro trip Dan thought ...
And Hours to Go Before I Sleep
... , with dark orange on the horizon blending into yellow, and the yellow blending into the blue sky. I hardly slept on the flight and Poland is 5 hours behind Bangkok, so I'm now on a mission to stay up until a reasonable hour before I go to bed, which I ...
Auschwitz - Birkenau
Got up at 7.30 and managed to get the train this time to Auschwitz. The train took about an hour and a half to Oswiecim, or as the Nazis renamed it - Auschwitz. It's not the biggest of the three camps in the area, but it's the one that has all the museum ...
Krakow City
... ://www.krakow.pl/en/turystyka/?id=wawel.html Krakow dormitory, Barbakan, Grunwald Monument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_of_Krak%C3%B3w http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/JM/krakow.html ...
Morskie Oko
... there with strollers, older people, and the such. Morski Oko is a thing that just about every single Polish person living in southern Poland visits....so yes it is very popular. After a while, it began to get more steep. Every so often, wagons with ...
I should have gone to the navigation nightclasses
... day from Magdeburg just clocking up the miles through a flat countryside mainly on motorways and it is getting late as I reach Grojec in Poland. The only hotel the Garmin points me to is way out of my price range, even with the reductions they offer. Well ...
Footloose in KRAKOW
Our filming tour in East Europe was to three beautiful cities (Budapest, Prague & Krakow) from the former Eastern Bloc which have a very different history to our own. The interesting changes since the fall of Communism, as well as their ...
Mikolajki
... Camp Wagabunda. The roads really did deteoriate in quality and condition. The Satnav arrival times were way too optimistic throughout Poland. We chose the campsite due to the little Internet symbol next to it in the German campsite book we'd picked up. ...