Category Archives: Poland

We arrived late into Warsaw after a 7 hour bus trip. I am blaming this for our little mistake with currency exchange where we got out $1000 worth of Polish zyoty instead of $300. We were using the Hungarian rate instead of Polish. So stupid!  After reading the Lonely Planet we were not really expectingContinue reading “Walking around Warsaw”

The snow once again was following us as we woke up to set off towards Krakow the ground was already white. It was 11/11 today and Independence Day in Poland and the streets were all lined with the Polish flag in preparation for the celebrations. Probably not the best day to visit Krakow as aContinue reading “Oh Wow, Krakow!”

We knew our trip to Auschwitz today was going to be pretty shocking. However words cannot describe how shocked we both were. It was an immensely moving occasion and I was going to write a blog full of the gory statistics and details we encountered on our visit but I don’t really feel it’s appropriate.WeContinue reading “Auschwitz”