Hotel City Ostrava

... raining before they started but the band brought the sunshine especially the small drummer note from Alena/ Romain put down the small but he wasnt small at all. Correction he was.

We also saw Speed Caravan, a French band performing a mix between algerian and electro music. Interesting...After Jamie Cullum, well not our cup of tea, in short. But Asian ...

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 made in the world)
12:00 - Lunch (what was left from breakfast plus more sausage)
14:00 ...

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)

... very cheap (2,5 zloty or some 30 eurocents) and very tasty pea soup - goroshew. We arrived to the hotel around 22:00 but the i corrected it to 21:00 :) We were somewhere at the southern border of Poland. We celebrated Christmas with a half bottle of wine, assorted gingerbread, clementines and other good things. We think we, as good christians, left a good impression to the hotel stuff with our fulfilled garbage can.

... back in time a few hundred years before we were ready for some fresh air. Taking advantage of the blue skies and sunshine, we went for a longer walk through the large park around a number of small lakes before heading to the town's small Rynek for an ice-cream. The rest of the afternoon was spent relaxing back in Belk before we got a small crew together for a nights clubbing in Rybnik. It was a small club, but we had a fun night, and I even managed to ...

... accounts of the atrocities they suffered. But I have never seen it with my own eyes...until now. We took a bus from Krakow to Auschwitz-Birkenau. These are two separate concentration camps in Poland where 1.1 million people were systematically tortured and eventually murdered because Hitler deemed them "undesirable" - 960,000 of them were Jews. These people were first forced from their homes into a ghetto where many died of starvation and/or dehydration due to lack of ...

... and his light-freckled, blond-stranded, five-year-old son Bart were my first cute drivers. Roman played in a hard rock band. Bart looked like a girl and hung over me from the backseat as he talked with us. Bart must've been used to being called a girl. One time - unprovoked from anything I said - he cutely angrily yelled, "Já nejsem holka, jsem chlap!" (I'm not a girl, I'm a boy!) A warm and open guy who'd become a father two days earlier took me to Vera's town ...

... or better yet both of them ... The only other thing I'm going to say right now is that my Czech language abilities are getting quite good. I've finished reading two kids' books: "Honzikova Cesta" (Honza's Travels) and "Povídání o Pejskovi a Kocicce" (Story-Telling about Dog and Cat). The language sounds a bit like a typewriter when spoken; there's one difficult new letter, like a Spanish ...

... que tenía era enorme, y sentía que todo se me cerraba alrededor: para todos los vecinos necesito visa, y sí, puedo viajar por todos los schengen, pero soy muy terco y yo había decidido que este viaje era por Europa oriental. Y había planeado un viaje espectacular de 32 días por toda Polonia, todo perfectamente organizado. El caso es que salí con la cabeza hecha un hervidero de ideas, en ese estado como de borrachera o fiebre en que uno camina ...

... moving. Andre and I walked around the rest of the compound and saw a few more sites. There are some more ruins of the crematoria and mounds of the ashes of those who died. We finished visiting the place on time to catch the last bus back to Auschwitz I and to Krakow. Since we walked at least 5-6 km, we were tired and hungry by the time we get back to Krakow. The bus ride was a long one because it stopped everywhere. It took the bus 2 hours to get back. Andre and I had a ...