Hotel Galicja Wieliczka

Our second tour of the day. The pickup was at 4 p.m. and our van was prompt and it was a much roomier van so our knees weren't squashed like the van in the morning. The drive shorter too. We got to the Wieliczka Salt Mine and waited while our tour leader got our tickets and waited for the English speaking guide. We had a chance to use the toilets which were free. While I wasn’t in need of a toilet at ...

Hmm - not too sure what to add about the salt mines, it's one of those organised mass tours along with Auschwitz that all tourists are pimped into, herded along like sheep for extortionate prices.
The salt mines are only 15km from Warsaw and up until the 80's were still functioning as salt mines, (it closed down due to problems with ...

... mall, the Gallery, which is a perfect replica of your average American mall. All the young, beautiful Polish girls hang out here, enjoying classy stores such as H & M and Aldo. I bought a touque at H&M, if not to keep down my recently frizzy hair. My tour lasted much too long and I had to run back to the train station inorder to catch a bus on time. But there was no bus, as is usual per tourist information gone wrong. For the next 1.5 hours I tried ...

... we went to see the Wieliczka castle and a new garden/pathway dedicated to Pope John Paul II. It was very pretty. We also stopped by the town square and passed by Kinga's (a huge store that we always shopped at). That's about it. Chill. Wieliczka is definitely not a tourist city aside from the salt mine. It is very down to earth but ...

... made trinkets and jewelery. the castle was right on the water and we ended up seeing the Black Madonna that every year thousands of Polish people travel to see. after seeing some of Krakow, really cool dynamic statues by the way, we took a guided tour of Auschwitz, getting there by bus. i am not a huge fan of Poland, even though Krakow is cool, but i think everyone should visit Auschwitz at least once if they can. we read about the Holocaust and learn ...

... like 2 sec. then it all stopped working. i think i broke my converter cuz nothing works with it anymore...so yeah i didnt exactly finish my hair :/. now i need to find a place that sells them around here. anyway so i waited forever for my uncle to pick me up. then he finally did and could not believe how grown up i am. and while back in the day he was a replica of Elvis he now looks like Taylor Hicks....like very much so. So we go to their place. My cousin Wojtek was ...

... of death against which prisoners were shot, some of the possessions taken from the prisoners, and of course the gas chamber and crematorium. "Work Will Make You Free" is the writing over the gate The Gas Chamber & Crematorium Click here for the video We also go to the much larger Birkenau camp nearby and see the terrible conditions in which the prisoners had to exist. I have to say, though, that I left a ...

... lucky having met Piotr, a young polish student. He has been for the last three days, an incredible noble guide, a walking guidebook and finally became a friend in Krakow. He already had given me some nice sightseeing advices for Krakow in advance, when I e-mailed him a couple of weeks ago. I`ve never expected him to meet me here and show me around, but this is what he did and he did it the deluxe way ...

... others with different fruits in, very nice. I also had a hot salad with beans. I miss not getting much veg still. When I got back I tried the TV and found Bruce Almighty on. I've seen this but realised before that for the whole of a programme they translate it as the actors speak. I could still hear the English, although at times they spoke over them. It's just one voice saying what the actors are saying! So I watched that as there were only 3 channels and all were in Polish.

... we must always talk about to prevent it from happening again". You get the idea...standard lines about never again and always remember. Then I got to an Israeli politician who's name I didn't recognize. He said "the isaeli nation stands ready to defeat any country who tries to do this again". Ok, now we're getting somewhere. But then put yourself in the shoes of an american living in 1941. You may have heard rumors of this but no hard evidence. The common person maybe "thought ...