Hotel Alef Krakow

... guide will spare you no details. No euphemisms. She'll tell you straight about what went on in each building. It's very depressing. It's huge. Thank God it is done, and I pray it never happens again! I looked at Liz and muttered, thank God this can't happen anymore...to which she softly replied, Sarah, it does. Sadly, she's right... there is still much left to be done in the Congo, in Burma, in Iran...

But that's where the Church comes in to help, yes? 
 
Krakow, Southern Poland, Poland nelsons5

... St. Mary's Church on the main square was also quite a sight, with its two different towers.

In our hostel we had a rare chance to watch TV in our room, something we did little of, though, because of a paucity of good programming; and any English language shows were dubbed by single monotonous narrator doing all the voices! (young, old, girl, boy...)

... on the left or right of politics?). I was amazed that he spoke near-fluent Hebrew, and he's not even Jewish! He took us to a Georgian restaurant, where I had Georgian grilled chicken and we shared Georgian red wine. When I asked him why the stalls were selling toy dragons, he told us the story of Krakow that is just as unbelievable as the King Wenceslas Messiah-in-the-mountains story in Prague, and no doubt some I will hear in the more religious areas of Israel. So Krakow ...

... tourist shops in it, it is pretty cool to look at but we didn't buy anything. We looked at the outside of the churches but we didn't go in and we hung out at the shopping plaza for the rest of the evening because it was cold and wet, then we caught the overnight train to Prague. This overnight train seemed a bit better than the first one. It was okay - they have six people in each berth and the beds are pretty hard and they give you a sleeping bag sheet and a pillow.

... As I stated from my previous post, the beers pack quite a punch --- after 2 pints you have a good buzz going, well since I was enjoying the fresh air and the live quad-rugby match (a.k.a. "Murderball")that was going on in the square I ended up having 4 pints. Since I was in no condition to walk around I postponed any further sightseeing until the next day. The next day I ventured ...

Ok, so maybe that Kebob wasn't such a good idea. I woke up with a wonderful case of traveler's sickness. Katrina & her mom went to mass and her brother and I both stayed in sick (he had a kebob too). As the afternoon progressed, Katrina & her mom both became ill. We later found out that all of her family ...

... night for dinner. I cannot remember the name of the place (will get later), but you walk in and you are met by a male host who is all dressed up in something similar to a tux and he walks you downstairs where there is a gentleman playing the piano and it is decorated as if it was the 20s....you will have to see my pictures as I do not think anyone will believe me. To be continued...

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... specifically built as a genocide factory. Some argue that history as we know it is an alchemist mixture of fact, fiction and propaganda. The hulking remains of the crematoriums destroyed by the fleeing Nazis, the piles of human hair and the collected toothbrushes, glasses and other personal effects stand as convicting testaments to the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. A visit to Auschwitz, the grave site of 1.5 million murdered individuals, haunts ...

... on his arm. So we spent saturday walking around krakow, had a nice meal and went out to some irish pub impressing the polish girls with our pool skills. We then ended up in some club but we were all pretty wasted from the night before so it was an early night. Today we got the bus and took the 2 hour ride to Auswitz concentration camp. This is somewhere you have to visit on a trip to Krakow. Its very eery and the stories of it feeling weird and no birds ...