Powder then on to Prague

Posted on November 19, 2007

Prague is slowly getting smaller as i sit traveling backwards on a train heading toward Vienna. The morning of my last day in Krakow was spent enjoying the powdered snow in a park near the river. It was there that i saw my first yellow snow produced by a dog.... [Read More]

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Back to Krakow

Posted on November 15, 2007

15/11/07 23:30 Krakow, Poland I realised I’d left my pda in Krakow so I’ve returned to collect it. It was a good excuse to return to this charming city. I spent 3 days in Budapest. Day one; i went to the tourist information centre and inquired about art galleries. The... [Read More]

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Night with the Irish

Posted on November 11, 2007

I arrived in Krakow the night before last staying again at Nathan’s villa hostel. In my room lived two English girls who were reuniting with some Polish and Slovakian work friends (they worked at a Jewish summer camp in the US). The next day the invited me to join them... [Read More]

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Auschwitz

Posted on November 9, 2007

From Warsaw i caught a train to Krakow then from Krakow to Oswiecim known in German as Auschwitz. The camp is now a museum, each building a different exhibition. It was peaceful with the intermittent guided tours roaming past. A corridor in one building was lined 3 high with photo’s... [Read More]

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Greg and Poles

Posted on November 8, 2007

The buildings evolved into shacks and caravans as the train headed westward. The only sign that I’d crossed the boarder was new letters in the alphabet of the station names. 6 hours after leaving Berlin i was released into a maze of underground tunnels lined with 24 hour kebab joints... [Read More]

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