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Sat, 8 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [457]
In my travels, I try so stay in a particular location just long enough. I don't want to leave too early, as I realize I will probably never come back. I don't want to leave things for the next time-as there probably won't be a next time. Rather then ... Read more >
Tags: krakow, poland
Fri, 7 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [469]
Yesterday was the day to go to Wawel Castle, which is on the hill in Krakow. Wawel is a magnificent castle on the hill in Krakow, which was occupied by Poland Rulers in the 1300s's (Poland's Capital was moved to Warsaw in 1596). Later on, the castle ... Read more >
Tags: krakow, poland
Thu, 6 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [507]
Yesterday in the morning, I bought a new camera bag. As mentioned the zippers broke on the old bag and I need it to carry my camera as well as notebook computer and other accessories. So I I went back and forth to the mall and a camera store to ... Read more >
Wed, 5 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [742]
Busy day yesterday. First I went downstairs to the reception at the hostel to see if the guy working there can call the police lost and found to tell them about my cellphone. (As supposedly they can only talk to someone in the Polish language).... Read more >
Tags: auschwitz, poland
Tue, 4 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [700]
Yesterday, was an interesting day-slow in the morning, but busier in the afternoon. The first thing I did was go to the police to see if anyone turned in my phone. So I went to the station in the market square in the old town. ... Read more >
Tags: krakow, poland
Mon, 3 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [454]
Yesterday for my second day in Krakow I did two additional walking tours.
The first walking tour was the Jewish Quarter walking tour. I saw the various synagogues built over a period of centuries, and learned how at first the Jews we're ... Read more >
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [431]
Yesterday was my first day in Krakow. Like most places, I have no idea why I came here. I have never been to Poland-I didn't know what was here besides Auschwitz, the Concentration Camp, where I will go in a few days.
I was going to start ... Read more >
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 | By dohnster | Photo Gallery
City of Kraków, and Auschwitz concentration camp
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Tue, 21 Jul 2015 | By dohnster | Views [593]
Want to know a scary statistic? Before the Holocaust, over 68,000 Jews lived in Kraków. Know how many live here now? 120...
Sorry I'm behind on posting. I've been making my way down Croatia and Montenegro, and I'm waiting for my flight ... Read more >
Tags: auschwitz, concentration camp, kraków, walking tour
Tue, 9 Jun 2015 | By ephemeral | Views [443]
My eyes are getting filled with tears. I have had enough! I am too tired to make even one more step. I am sitting down on the ground, refusing co-operation. We are half way through, that is the most difficult to accept - there is no coming back. We have ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, climbing, how i started to travel, katrina dybzynska, my father, strength, travelling with kids, trekking
Thu, 28 May 2015 | By travelure | Views [184] | Scholarship Entry
I have grown up with movies about the holocaust - Warsaw Story, The Pianist, Schindler's List, and more. I have read about it extensively. As a photographer, I have also seen hundreds of gory images. It was not surprising that I had a desire to visit ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Wed, 27 May 2015 | By mayza | Views [324] | Scholarship Entry
Sitting in an apartment of old time Jewish part Kazimierz, Jakub asked me with an open mouth, nodding his head from right to left: "You haven´t ever been to Kopiec Kraka?" True that after living in Kraków for 7 months I was quite sure that I know this ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Wed, 27 May 2015 | By wildtraveler | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry
It’s difficult to describe my trip to Poland in November 2013 with words. Great emotions in just one week. It wasn’t my longest trip but certainly the most intense. I was in the land of Pope Wojtyla with 3 friends and in day after landing in Krakow, ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Wed, 27 May 2015 | By awanderingjourney | Views [178] | Scholarship Entry
Before engaging in my one year long journey to Poland, I didn’t have much knowledge of the social reality of the country and for most part, Poland was just a section of the European map, with a tumultuous history. When people ask me how my EVS was, ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
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