Hostel Oswiecim

... VODKA TO VINO TOUR From Poland to Greece through the lands of "ism"s and "ion"s, otherwise known as Eastern Europe. Encounters of the Slavic kind and general lingual confusion ensue as we hike and hostel, camp and cavort our way south.........

... go by myself. There were placards by every significant spot that explain what the tour guide would say anyway. The journey to Oswiecim, made me feel uncomfortable enough. I had to catch an old rickety train on Birkenau Railway that took the ...

... . Firstly I did not realise there were two camps, Auschwitz 1 which was originally and still is today the town of Oswiecim, invaded, renamed and people displaced from their land at German occupation. This camp is mainly brick buildings, comprising of the ...

... una gran espectativa. Nos levantamos temprano, desayunamos "hartamente" (repito, el servicio del hostel muuuy completo), y a las 9 salimos con nuestro Bus personal para Oswiecim, localidad donde queda Auschwitz. Ese sería un viaje que me cambiaría mucho ...

... but I will take this with me forever. Tomorrow, I am getting on a train at 7:30 am and headed to Berlin. I have my hostel booked (and I took better directions this time to avoid the same difficulties). I have a plane ticket to Barcelona all set and my ...

... , we were both awoken not long afterwards as it was so cold! There was ice on the floor of the bus!!! We headed back to our hostel, picked Laura up and headed out for some food. We had quite a few Zloty left so we all had a huge meal, fatty managed ...

... . I was going to ask if they got into Canadian schools or did they not and have to study here...but i didn't. We hung out till 11pm and then i came back to my hostel and i was sooo sick...i went the bathroom 6 times that night....gosh...i had the ...

... the images I have seen today, click on one of the two photos on the home page, to get to the photo gallery. There is just so much going through my mind on this experience to write about right now. Tonight  will be a quiet night at the ...

... do think that our basic inclination is to help each other whenever possible, as evidenced by random strangers driving me to my hostel in Budapest late at night; not being robbed or mugged in the same city after being separated from my friends when ...

... hub, making it convenient to relocate prisoners there. I made the trip by bus which the station was only minutes away from my hostel. The ride took me through the Polish countryside eventually leading to the town of Oświęcim, which in German is ...

... we all agreed the fried was better than boiled. After that, we went and hung out at a pub, then made the long walk to the hostel in the FREEZING weather. Lauren and I are headed to Paris tomorrow, and everyone else is staying in Krakow for one more ...

We have a long day ahead and was happy to come downstairs to another great breakfast. They put on quite a spread in this hostel. We filled up on food and then walked to the Glowny station to hop aboard a train heading to Auswitchz. We will be spending ...

... by public transport, but for ease of getting there the bus is good. It's also a good way to meet other travellers in the hostel and get a bit of a chinwag about where people have been, where to go next, the tricks people use to rip you off etc.... As ...

... about it so many times in order to teach it. Nothing could be further from the truth. As soon as we boarded our bus at the hostel on a suitably cloudy morning (the contrast to the beautiful weather so far on our trip was stark) we were shown an hour long ...

... rainy and wet! I was glad in one way but I was really glad I had brought the rain breaker with me. I left the hostel with Mark and Suzanne but unfortunately I lost them. I took a stroll through the main square and visited the Dominican and Franciscan ...

... most of the two hours on the train fighting to stay awake, I lost. Luckily though, I didn't miss the stop. Got to Oswiecim and couldn't figure out which side of the street to catch the bus from so asked someone and she pointed in a direction neither ...

Today, I visited the infamous Auschwitz. It was the largest Nazi German Concentration and death camp, in operation between the years of 1940 and 1945. 1 300 000 people were sent there. 1 300 000!!!! Most of them died, most of them being Jews, most of ...

It's a name that brings feelings of fear and terror to the minds of people across the globe. Aschwitz.  The Concentration Camp is the most widely known camp where mass extermination of Jews and other people from all over Europe occurred, estimates ...

              Although many things have been said over the years about this place, I find that their is almost nothing that can be said to descibe this place. No personal photos will ever ...

In the afternoon I took a trip to Auschwitz. (Helen went to various places in Krakow instead).  I don't think there is too much to say about it really.  I'd imagine you know exactly what the place was.  It is now a memorial to those who ...