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Av. Armii Krajowej 11A Krakow, Southern Poland, Poland
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Overwhelming
We landed in Krakow, Poland and we were met by a very nice taxi driver who took us to our awesome apartment. It was twice the size of our condo in Toronto and had a washing machine!! We hired our taxi driver to take us to Auschwitz the following day. Auschwitz is actually comprised of many different camps, but we visited the two most known and largest. Words cannot describe what we saw and ...
Eastern Europe differs from Western Europe...
... dwelling with doors nailed shut on the floors below us. The stairs are being refinished and are at the moment unfinished and creaky and as you climb the three stories (the ground floor is floor zero) the landings are granite, but nothing else betrays the "luxury" we are about to encounter. The handrail on the first floor is not at all steady and one would be foolish to rely on it for any support! There is no elevator and we have, as I may have mentioned, ...
The Genocide Tour Part I: Auschwitz-Birkenau
... daft way of going about things."
Well, good news, I am mending my ways! From Krakow onwards I will be heading along a much more sensible, direct route, first heading pretty much directly north up through Poland and then the Baltics before swinging around through Scandinavia and back down in to Germany.
It occurred to me the other day that I am nearly two thirds of the way through my trip, it being six and a half months long now. This is a ...
Success!! Despite the evil archive trolls!!
... when Michael was born, the family are listed as living at Ulica Lubicz 5. This is unusual because this address is a fair way from the Jewish quarter, however this is also the tie Jews were granted the right to settle closer to the town itself. In 1884 a hotel was built on the site. This hotel is still in operation today.
We also went to the Jewish cemetery - called the New Cemetery even though it's 200 years old. Like most Jewish cemeteries this one was ...
Cracow Culture
... about a free choir concert in one of the many churches, so stopped at the bar after coffee in the cute coffee shop by Massolit books to ask for directions. I’m in luck: a very drunk old guy could tell me where it was en espaņol (finally a language I can speak, un poco), just in time. Ah, warm, dry, free, good acoustics, and a pretty good choir from the UK, what a nice way to end my musical week! Having planned only 3 days, I stayed 7 in my ...



