Guest Rooms Wrona Krakow

... t want to use my lights. Kampground Smok was a great little place. It was truly dark as I pulled up to my spot. It was at that point that I realized that I didn’t have a flashlight.

I was so lucky that the neighbours daughter came over with a headlamp, and offered (in great English) to help me put up my tent. I was very thankful as we put up the tent. Boy have tents changed. It took us about 10 minutes to put it up. We chitchatted and ...

My birthday 23 today! It was a bit of a letdown, as I'm used to breakfast with friends to start the day, a few presents here and there, and going out places far more pleasant than mass graves. Mass grave Our first site was a hard-to-find mass grave in Neopolitza (??), in dense and snowy forest, which Gilad thinks we would have been one of the first, if not the first, Jewish groups to ever visit. That was an incredible thought. He told us ...

... me there in one try by morning. I did luckily find out that each train is divided into segments depending on the destination and cars are added and taken off at various stops along the way. Get in the wrong car somehow and fall asleep and off to Siberia you go. Random milling about brought me right up to a partially hidden sign showing the car designations for the Galileo. The first two were for Krakow and the others were for Warsaw, Minsk, St ...

... a lively market, interesting galleries and some funky neighbourhoods. Conclusion: Croatia exceeded our expectations. It's a beautiful place - a bit like Greece but greener and cheaper. But it won't be cheap for long. Once it joins the E.U. (sometime in the next few years now that it has turned over a war criminal to the Hague) expect prices to rise. And forget buying land on Lopud ...

... At first we were disappointed we did not have a guide as the English guide was not starting for another 30 minutes after our arrival which we would not have enough time to complete but not long into our time there were glad we could do this emotional experience in an individual silent procession. I can not begin to describe the horrors that man can do to fellow man that were illustrated in this place of death. The most ...

... eastern bloc... But then we got into Crakow and what a difference! A great city with a lot of history and lots of pubs! After checking in and booking a tour to the salt mine, we first went and bought some jumpers and stuff, because it has been getting colder every day. When we arrived it was about 9 degrees. After that we headed out to the pubs and there are a bucketload of pubs in the old section of Crakow; most being under the ...

... amazing experience!!!! We left feeling very robbed and headed to zakopane one the border of poland and slovakia. The weather packed it in so we pulled into a road works soil dumping area and parked in the mud for the night. Early start and got to our second tourist trap in as many days a tram up a hill into tantras mountains but it was short with very limited view and nothing to do except buy tacky tourist ****.........but mads and i did find 4 euro bb guns so had ...

... district has a few synagogues and museums, but of course few Jews. Poland was home to 70% of the world's Jews according to one museum. An equal number of Jewish men, women and children were taken into the woods and executed, as were killed in the death camps. Now there is a small movement to create on site memorials for those deaths as an alternative to Auschwitz which is seen as a memorial to Nazi terror, not one which honors Jewish ...

... army as a garrison in the 1800's. There was extensive damage; repairs were begun in the early 1920's and continued after WW II. The Cathedral is where Pope John Paul II said mass as an archbishop. There are multiple statues and other commemoratives plaques to him throughout Poland; the Poles are very proud to claim Jan Pawel II as their own. The cathedral itself, as the castle, had a great number of tourists filing through; movement was difficult at ...

So I am settled in, finally. I had a funny feeling the other weekend when we returned home from Gdansk. Krakow felt familiar, and safe, almost as if I was returning home. We had a good first week of regular classes. In saying this I have already completed 40% of one of the courses work, which is a relief since the work wasn't hard or stressful at all. Today my friend Emily and I have gone off to find the Jagelloian Universities Library. I am now sitting at one of the stalls in what I ...