Poland Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals - Page 10

winter 2005

Girls sailing:)

A quick visit through Poland in January to see Krakow and Warsaw. Warsaw was an eyesore. Krakow was a cracker! Auschwitz wasn't exactly 'fun' but definitely a must see destination. A great trip all round!

Skiing in the Polish Tatra's, sightseeing in and around Brussels, and partying nice and hard in Poland. All highlights of my first winter trip to Europe.

This was a really great outing. I had not been out of the country (Sweden) for 5 years so this was really lots of fun. I learnt a lot during this trip.

A few places in Poland following country's historical route :)

Chełmno - called the Little Cracow is one of the oldest towns in Poland. Little, charming settlement invites tourists at all seasons of the year ...

A few photos of places to go...

In Poland by te sea...!

Góry Stołowe

The last day in Warsaw saw me wander a Russian Orthodox Cemetery south of Warsaw, touring the Warsaw Uprising Museum and Lazienkowski Park with the surrounding around. The Russian Orthodox Cemetery was a sobering place to wander about. I was very much surprised to see the cemetery was not destroyed during the war. There are wonderful bits of architecture and numerous headstones and crypts from all time periods. Next was the Warsaw Uprising Museum, which I highly recommend (it is also free on…

Krakow was the first city of our European adventure, and we only had a few hours there before catching a train to Zakopane. We left San Francisco on a Monday night and it was late Tuesday night by the time we arrived in Krakow. So I really didn't feel like I was on vacation, or have that magical "I'm in Europe" feeling until Wednesday morning when we woke up early to see the town. To get to the old town from our hotel we walked through part of a university campus that looked like it had been …

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OK so this is where my blog entries are gonna get very slim with details as I officially stopped recording stuff in my journal on this day. I stopped writing a week or so before this and started taking point form "notes" but now I have officially stoppend and am writing this based solely on memory and pictures hehe. So today was the day that we were gonna go to Auschwitz!! Our roomie Daniella left today but Tom was still around and we decided to go with him. We didn't want to go through a tou…

A leg crunching 49km, 4985 Calorie burning ,cycle along tiny mountain paths began in Krynica at about midday. Nice easy slopes until we reached the road going into Tylwch, all it seemed to do was go up and up, at one point I had to stop as I actually felt the remnants of breakfast trying to make them selves be tasted a second time. Not nice. Any way fighting on to the top of the hill, a nice swooshy part, right down through the village of Tylicz. Apparently this used to be a large c…