Hotel Brioni Ostrava

After long journey, we finally arrived at Ostrava, totally dead but we have to get ready soon for the 4 days festival Colours of Ostrava, check http://www.colours.cz/2009/summer/cz/in dex.php?action=artists<br>Finally we didnt manage the first day, was too much.<br> On Friday we saw the best Salsa Band in the world ladies and gentlemen Colombian band LA 33.<br>It ...

Stayed a night in Rybnik at Aleks house, the first polish man who picked us up. He offered us his home and hospitality for the night, once again amazing people we meet on this journey and such kind hearts! (im just writing quick entrys since its been a while and I want to write from where I am, not to menntion it would take forever, since no computers at the Rainbow)

We left Olsztyn early in the morning to head to Warszawa by Train. Sadly we arrived late at the train station, so instead we cought a bus a couple of hours later, but this bus was not guaranteed to get to Warszawa in time to get our 15:00 departure to Vienna. We spent a rather stressful 5 hours or so on the bus but ...

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We stopped in Roznov pod Radhostem to visit an Oppen Aair Wallachian Wooden Village Musuem. It was neat to see the traditional ways that people in this area lived - with all of the buildings made of wood. We got to see exhibits of welding metal, a saw mill, and working water wheels. This would be a nice stop especially for those with children.

... someone reads a cite about the hostility between Eva and the snake, they sing "Laudate omnis gente dominus" - which later would become the first christian song i will know by heart - and then a Christmas song. nobody joins to this whole event, a completely different ambient than in the christian Spanish and Portuguese buses i had been for a while working as a guide in Baltics. We eat in a bar on the highway where ...

... another nice drive through small villages and wooded forests, and when we arrived we parked on the outskirts of the small town. After a short walk through a small park we came across the town's main attraction, the Castle museum. It was built by the Opole dukes in the 12th century (strangely enough, Opole was the region I was to be based in) and it really was a magnificent structure. We spent about an hour and a half inside looking at the galleries and were ...

... wandered in. It was very hard-hitting and really put the scale of the terror endured into picture. We wandered around looking at the exhibitions with a somewhat somber approach, it was hard to smile in that place. The wall where people were shot against was the most harrowing for me, as well as the gas chambers. Well worth a visit, its a 'must-see tradgedy' really. I'd definitely go back if i had the chance, and to visit Birkenau, the other camp. The scale is just ...

... embajada, cosa que dejó de excelente humor a todos los empleados. Yo fui muy decente, y traté de mantenerme calmado, pero no sirvió de mucho. Después de hora y media finalmente salió el "cónsul" (cuando conocí a la verdadera unas horas después es cuando uno se da cuenta de ese jueguito de hacerse pasar por _ para lidiar con _). Le expliqué la situación y sin mucha amabilidad me dijo que las decisiones consulares son irrevocables. La frustraci ...

... Andre, a friend from my hostel, before we started the tour. He was told by his friend that Auschwitz II or Birkenau is three times as big as Auschwitz and he ran out of time to see both. So Andre advised me to see Auschwitz quickly before we moved on to Birkenau. A brief history of this place : Auschwitz I was originally constructed as the barrack for Polish soldiers. But after the Nazis took over, it was turned into a concentration camp initially for the Polish political ...