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Ulica Kapelanka 60 Krakow, Southern Poland, 30-047 , Poland
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"A Cry of Despair and a Warning to Humanity"
... the camp, visiting some of the blocks, seeing the remnants of lives that were erased and, perhaps most chilling, passing through a gas chamber. The actual gas chamber that exterminated 90% of the Jews that passed through the camp. I saw the crematoria where their emaciated and broken bodies were burned, and the goods that were stripped from them before the grossest of indignities was visited upon them. For example, at one point, ten kilograms of gold bars ...
Krakow, the old town, is very old.
... and hallmarks. Amber is beautiful stuff; its tree resin that's millions of years old and has "morphed" into stone. Rich warm autumn colours, sometimes with insects trapped inside it.
There goes the diet, I had lost seven kilos before I left Australia but now I have discovered Pierogi's (Polish dumplings), they are yummy. My favorites are ...
Krakow
I arrived in Krakow in the afternoon after a long 8 hour train ride. The train was nice, but you could really tell as soon as you crossed the boarder of Poland, as the tracks got worse and everything was very run down, especially the train station in Katowice that i had to change at, the signs were hanging off the walls, everything was broken, including a crumpled up ecelator that looked like it had not been used in ...
Krakow 2
... time soon. She nearly had a fight with the man who tried to take our seats when we got up to leave.
Back at the hostel, we slobbed out for a bit, and met a guy in our new room called Brad. He was from Melbourne, and he’d been travelling for six weeks, with 8 months to go. He made me very jealous when he said he’d spent 3 weeks following the Tour de France, and had been there on the Champs Elysees for the last stage. I’m sure ...
Krakow Poland
... of stairs to a small cove, and then further down the wide stone staircase until we had to be at least 2 floors underground, and then the whole pub was just a maze of hollowed out earthen rooms connected by tunnels, so you had to duck to enter each room, all dimly lit passageways and small dark nooks. It was beautiful. It felt like we were back in medieval times with drinking large ales in an old English pub, almost expected a hobbit to come have a ...



