Blogs from Lesser Poland, Poland, Europe - page 12

Checked in to Ibis hotel for a reasonable price of £100 for 3 nights and its bang on city centre location. After a 3 hour train journey from Warsaw to Kraków I needed a nap. After that my local friend picked me up and I was on my way to discover the city. The main square is a 10 mins walk from here so we go and try local cuisine followed by polish beer. I had the pierogi (dumplings) with spinach and cheese..."amazing" is an understatement, beetroot soup, winter tea and for dessert we had dumplings again his time with blueberry as it is in season here. it was my first time to have the same thing for main and dessert but I would definitely go back and order the same. My friend then showed me ... read more

When I drop the money into her basket I see it is bellied with heavy coins and high-denomination bills. Darkness is descending and a cold Autumn drizzle with it. Spectators pull their heads into their collars like baby chicks and hug themselves against the chill. Winter is in the air. The woman is very thin. She stands in front of a great stone wall next to Saints Peter's and Paul's Church on Grodza Street. A squat, battery-powered speaker, cabled to an i-Pod in her hand, sits beside her on the wet pavement like a patient pet. Standing alone in her Houndstooth skirt, black stockings and red Cardigan she looks like a lonely waif. Her voice is pure. Each note rings clear and true. She sings some arias and then she lets loose with Agnus Dei from ... read more

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum southern Poland 8 September 2014 On arrival to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, we took a guided tour around both sites which took from 11.30pm to 3.30pm. Our guide was excellent and gave us so much information. This is a memorial and museum in Auschwitz, Poland, which includes the German concentration camps Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It is devoted to the memory of the over 1.5 million murders of Jews from 22 countries, in both camps during World War ll. The museum performs several tasks, among them research into the Holocaust. The area covers 191 hectares, twenty of them in camp Auschwitz I and 171 in camp Auschwitz II. Since 1979 the former concentration camp has belonged to the World Cultural Heritage and more than 25 million people have visited the museum. Last ... read more

Here are the photos from Schindler's Factory in Krakow... read more

We landed, got our luggage, got money, headed for the bus to the city, and then the fun began. The 40 some passenger bus already had twice that amount including everyone's bags. Tickets were only sold from a machine that only took coins. We only had a 200 zloty bill. The bus was getting ready to leave, we wanted to get to the city, we hopped on. Locals were warning people of the 1000 zloty fine if you didn't have a ticket, but there was no way to get a ticket. After a 40 minute bus ride there was our hotel right at one of the scheduled stops. We didn't have to pay a fine, we didn't have to do hard time, and we got dropped off in front of our hotel. The travel angels were ... read more